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Aug 31, 2010
The Ciné Files // World Film Festival: Scientology, The Truth About A Lie — Montreal Gazette
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Liz Ferguson Source:
Montreal Gazette Scientology, The Truth About A Lie 2010 France Directed by Jean-Charles Deniau (The film is in a mixture of French and English. All the French parts are translated into English, but not all of the English parts are translated into French.) Scientology is recognized as a religion, for income tax purposes, in the U.S., but not in France. In France and Germany it is generally considered a cult. While church members had already been convicted of fraud in France, last year ...
Apr 24, 2009
Letters // Concordia got it right — Montreal Gazette
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Montreal Gazette Re: "Scientologists didn't deserve a soapbox" (Letters, April 22). Norman Ingram suggests that so called "crackpot" groups like the Scientologists should not be accorded publicly funded space like Concordia's atrium. But that is precisely what universities have a mission and an obligation to provide. Academic freedom and free speech have no point if offensive speech and crackpot ideas have no public forum. Every single university discipline has some ideas or promotes practices that will offend some portion of our population. Every ...
Apr 22, 2009
Letters // Scientologists didn't deserve a soapbox — Montreal GazetteMore: montrealgazette.com
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Montreal Gazette Re: "Scientologists have a right to speak, too" (Editorial, April 19). Your editorial's plaintive title betrays a fundamental misapprehension of the issues involved. No one denies the right of Scientologists to say whatever they want, however wrong and untrue it might be. What some people are concerned about, however, is the fact that they are being given a publicly-funded, intellectual soapbox - the Atrium of Concordia University's library building - from which to make their crackpot claims. That is the issue. ...
Apr 19, 2009
Editorial / Scientologists have a right to speak, too — Montreal Gazette
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Montreal Gazette It's a name apparently designed to win friends and influence people. After all, what part of "the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights" can you be against? In truth, however, this noble-sounding group has a specific agenda that is much more controversial than citizenry, human rights, or any solemn commission.
All the same, Concordia University has done exactly the right thing in allowing this group to express itself on campus.
The CCHR is affiliated with the Church of Scientology, an organization with ...
Apr 17, 2009
Controversy surrounds Scientology-linked exhibition at Concordia — Montreal GazetteMore: rickross.com
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Montreal Gazette Flak is flying at Concordia University this week over the school's decision to allow an exhibition sponsored by the Church of Scientology. University officials have been bombarded with email. Protesters have put together a YouTube video of the show and yesterday staged a demo outside the McConnell library building - where the exhibition is being held till Sunday - to register their objections. The exhibition was sponsored by the Citizens' Commission on Human Rights, which is affiliated with the Church of ...
Sep 5, 2008
Letters / Fair play for Scientology Re: "Campaign of harassment or just a wild imagination?" (Gazette, Aug. 16) — Montreal Gazette
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Montreal Gazette Re: "Campaign of harassment or just a wild imagination?" (Gazette, Aug. 16). Because of the outrageous allegations in this story about the Church of Scientology I feel the need to respond. First of all, we don't know the name or whereabouts of the so-called "anonymiss," nor have we tried to find out. Her claims are ludicrous and, to be charitable, the product of her wild imagination. However, the campaign she and her "anonymous" comrades are involved in is, by their own ...
Aug 16, 2008
Campaign of harassment or just a wild imagination? — Montreal Gazette
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Montreal Gazette Anonymous is the name of a new worldwide group that communicates mostly online and protests against the Church of Scientology. Critics say the church, founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, uses secretive practices, makes cult-like demands, extorts money from its members and harasses those who claim to expose the truth about it. Which explains the anonymity central to the anti-Scientology group. In February, anti-Scientology activists in Montreal joined others around the world in the organization's first simultaneous masked protest, ...
Jan 24, 2008
Author goes inside Scientology — Montreal Gazette
Jan 8, 2008
'Poorly researched' Tom Cruise bio tests lawyer's patience — Montreal Gazette
Jul 20, 1989
Letter: Contributions are refundable — Montreal Gazette
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Montreal Gazette Your May 31 edition referred to a suit involving the Church of Scientology and a couple of former parishioners.
Contrary to the article, the church has and applies a refund policy on contributions from its members.
The Church of Scientology finances its activities from its parishioners with fixed contributions paid for specific services. The church and its lawyers have taken the position that such religious services do not fall under the purview of the Quebec Consumer Protection Act as the contrary ...
Nov 19, 1985
$12,000 spent on Scientology course: suit — Montreal Gazette
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Rod MacDonell Source:
Montreal Gazette A Montreal stockbroker who claims he was
brainwashed last year by members of the Church of Scientology testified yesterday that he paid $12,000 to the sect for personality courses. Gilles Lanthier, 28, told Sessions Court Judge Benjamin Schecter that he began having doubts about the sect when he was told to abandon his wife and seek further Scientology instruction in Toronto. He said that his personality courses were to cost $22,000, but a church member told him he had been ...
Nov 6, 1985
Scientology documents tell of ruler of 90 planets — Montreal Gazette
Jul 27, 1985
Nursery puts stop to Scientologists staging plays for children — Montreal Gazette
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Montreal Gazette The owner of a Rosemount nursery says he won't allow Church of Scientology members to perform any more plays for the nursery's 30 children. On Wednesday, two Scientology members presented a 45-minute play — it was about a porcupine who gets lost in the woods — for the children at Le Foyer du Bonheur. The Scientologists wanted to give the children an encore performance next week, but nursery owner Uri Ravel has quashed the plan: "I don't want any preaching in ...
Aug 17, 1972
At St. Vincent de Paul // Prison worker hits poor reform — Montreal GazetteMore: news.google.com
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Mary Janigan Source:
Montreal Gazette Few inmates become reformed at St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary because prison rehabilitation programs are negligible, a Toronto prison worker said yesterday. Phil McAiney, director of the rehabilitation program Narconon, spent two days recently at the Special Correction Unit of the maximum security institution. He classified relations between the staff and inmates as "open warfare where hatred and fear are the weapons". And he charged that rehabilitation programs consist only of baseball and a weekly visit by the prison psychiatrist. "The ...
Feb 29, 1972
Letters / Narcotics Anonymous — Montreal Gazette
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