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 Vote Marriage, Canada - http://profamilynetwork.blogspot.com/ Promotes the conventional, heterosexual view of marriage and encourages voting for candidates against same-sex marriage policies. |
 The Globe and Mail: Church offers first 'legal' gay marriages - http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate/20001205/UGAYYN?tf=RT/HTMLRelatedArticleTemplate.html&cf=RT/config-neutral&slug=UGAYYN&date=20001205&archive=GAM Article on a Toronto church offering same-sex marriage by means of a legal loophole in Ontario law. |
 Minute of Record on Same-Sex Marriage - http://www.quaker.ca/concerns/SameSexMarriageMinuteCYM.pdf Official statement of the Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) supporting the right of same-sex couples to a legal marriage. Individual Meetings may perform same-sex marriages, or not, as they see fit. (PDF file, 7K.) |
 Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage in Canada - http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/general/same_sex/ Background information on the debate over legal recognition of same sex unions in Canada. |
 CBC News - http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourspace/gaymarriage.html Readers voice their opinions about same-sex marriages. |
 CBC - Forever and Always - http://www.cbc.ca/national/news/gay/ The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's coverage of first same-sex marriages in Canada. Includes interviews from both sides of debate. Discussion board includes over 10,000 postings. |
 EGALE Canada - http://www.egale.ca/ A Canadian organization fighting for "Equality For Gays and Lesbians Everywhere". Battles in courts over same sex couples, rights, government insight. |
 Redefinition of Marriage Q&A - http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/sexuality/articles/Redefinition_of_Marriage.html Discusses the reasons why they oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada. |
 Sanctity of Marriage.ca - Protecting Traditional Marriage in Canada - http://www.familyaction.org/sanctityofmarriage/ Opposes same sex marriage. |
 Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples - http://www.samesexmarriage.ca/advocacy/bell180205.htm Article discusses how Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper is dead wrong to imply that gay and lesbian couples are unfit parents. |
 Equal Marriage for Same Sex Couples - http://www.samesexmarriage.ca/ Information about advocacy and campaign methods, upcoming events and celebrations, past activities, historical perspectives and related links. |
 Homosexual (Same-Sex) Marriages in Canada - http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_marb.htm An overview of the situation in Canada including case law. |
 Court cases about homosexual (Same-Sex) Marriages in Canada - http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_marb4.htm Examination of the Hendricks and Léboeuf case. |
 Marriage Canada - http://www.marriagecanada.ca/ Evangelical minister defends a definition of marriage as a religious covenant between one man and one woman. Includes roster of MPs and their expected votes on the issue. |
 EFC :: Social Issues :: Defending Marriage - http://www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=455&srcid=187 Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's views against same sex marriage. |
 Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto - http://www.mcctoronto.com/ Toronto church conducting what is claimed to be the first legal same-sex marriage in Canada. |
 Halpern et al. v. Attorney General of Canada et al. (June 10, 2003) - http://www.ontariocourts.on.ca/decisions/2003/june/halpernC39172.htm Full text of the opinion of the Court of Appeal. To remedy Charter violations of equality rights, the official definition of marriage is changed, effective immediately, to be the union of two persons. |
 Synopsis of Halpern et al v. Attorney General of Canada et al (June 10, 2003) - http://www.ontariocourts.on.ca/decisions/2003/june/halpernsynopsis.htm Official summary of the ruling which legalized gay marriage in the province of Ontario. The definition of marriage is changed to "the voluntary union for life of two persons to the exclusion of all others". |
 Barbeau v. British Columbia - http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb-txt/CA/03/04/2003BCCA0406.htm Court of Appeal judgment allowing same-sex marriages in the province, effective immediately. The remedy had been suspended until July 12, 2004, but in light of the availability of same-sex marriage in Ontario, was altered. |
 Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights - http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm This paper reviews some of the issues and developments affecting the legal rights of lesbians and gay men at the federal level as well as in areas of provincial jurisdiction and in the private sector. |
 Free Vote on Gay Marriage - http://www.marriagevote.ca/ Keeps track of MP voting intentions for the free vote on gay marriage expected in Canada's House of Commons. |