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SASKATOON, Saskatchewan , December 10, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The administration of the University of Saskatchewan issued a campus-wide safety advisory last week in reaction to a pro-life activist distributing pamphlets exposing the harms of homosexuality to students and staff. U of S officials sent out the advisory on Thursday morning, according to  a local newspaper report , after pro-life and anti-homosexuality activist Bill Whatcott spent Wednesday, December 5, at the school handing out  flyers  titled “Say No to the Homosexual Agenda !” Bill Whatcott The flyer lists some of the health consequences related to sodomy and defends the Christian perspective of sex and marriage. This flyer, along with another titled “Say No to Abortion!” are part of Whatcott’s “Operation Education on Abortion and Sodomy” campaign. “I became aware of the University of Saskatchewan’s decision to issue a campus wide safety alert over my flyers after I received a call from the CBC,” What

CALGARY, October 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pastor Stephen Boissoin , who was found guilty in 2007 by a provincial human rights tribunal of “hate speech” for writing a letter to the editor expressing his views on homosexuality , has been strongly vindicated after the Alberta Appeals Court dismissed an appeal of a lower court decision in Boissoin’s favor. The court also ordered Boissoin’s accuser, homosexual activist Dr. Darren Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary , to pay Boissoin’s attorney fees. Appeals Court Justice Clifton O’Brien concurred with the lower court that Boissoin’s letter “was not likely to expose homosexuals to hatred or contempt within the meaning of the Alberta statute.” Pastor Stephen Boissoin In 2009, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Earl C. Wilson overturned  the 2007 ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission ( AHRC ), which  ordered  Boissoin to desist from expressing his views on homosexuality in any sort of public

CALGARY, April 2, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Paul Jeffrey has dismissed a Crown appeal of a decision from a lower court that acquitted Bill Whatcott of trespassing charges for distributing “Truth about homosexuality” pamphlets at the University of Calgary in 2008. On Friday, March 30, Jeffrey upheld the November 2011  ruling  by provincial court Judge John D. Bascom that stated the University of Calgary infringed on Whatcott’s Charter rights to freedom of expression when campus security arrested and detained him for distributing a pamphlet that addressed the “harmful consequences” of homosexuality. Bill Whatcott The university had argued that the Charter only applied to “government actors and government actions,” not to the university itself since it was a private entity. Bascom ruled, however, that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to the University of Calgary since “the University is not a Charter free zone,” in that i

CALGARY, Alberta , November 25, 2011 – A judge has acquitted a controversial pro-family activist from a July 2008 charge of trespassing at a Canadian university. William (Bill) Whatcott was arrested by campus security at the University of Calgary and put into a holding cell for distributing a pamphlet that addressed the “harmful consequences” of homosexuality. Whatcott,  called the ruling a “victory for all Canadians who value freedom of expression and religious liberty on our university campuses.” Judge J.D. Bascom  ruled  from the Provincial Court of Alberta on November 15th that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “applies” to the University of Calgary since “the University is not a Charter free zone.” Section 2.b  of the Charter states that everyone has the “fundamental freedoms [of] thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.”  The University had argued that the Charter only applied to “government actors and