Ontario Court of Appeal dismisses case on religious accommodation in public schools

By Ian Burns ( November 30, 2017, 1:01 PM EST) -- The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court’s ruling that a school board in Hamilton did not violate a man’s rights when it declined to accommodate his request to shield his children from “false teachings” in the classroom. However, a majority of the court said that, although the man was unable to provide specific examples of how his rights were violated, provisions of the provincial Education Act could not be given “a clean constitutional bill of health."...