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• - Opposes same sex marriage.
  
• - Campaign to preserve marriage through a constitutional amendment.
  
• - Information about advocacy and campaign methods, upcoming events and celebrations, past activities, historical perspectives and related links.
  
• - A Canadian organization fighting for "Equality For Gays and Lesbians Everywhere". Battles in courts over same sex couples, rights, government insight.
  
• - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's extensive coverage of first same-sex marriages in Canada. Includes interviews from both sides of debate. Discussion board includes over 10,000 postings.
  
• - Focus on the Family discusses the reasons why they oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada.
  
• - 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.)
  
• - Includes a petition against same sex marriage. Site of the organization, Canadian Citizens to Defend Marriage.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Keeps track of MP voting intentions for the free vote on gay marriage expected in Canada's House of Commons.
  
• - CBC news report includes audio and video links.
  
• - An overview of the situation in Canada including case law.
  
• - Article from CBC News includes links to audio and video reports including an As It Happens interview.
  
• - Media release on the reference testing the constitutionality of proposed Federal same-sex marriage legislation.
  
• - Article discusses how Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper is dead wrong to imply that gay and lesbian couples are unfit parents.
  
• - Article on a Toronto church offering same-sex marriage by means of a legal loophole in Ontario law.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Toronto church conducting what is claimed to be the first legal same-sex marriage in Canada.
  
• - Feature report examining the debate over recognising same-sex relationships in law.
  
• - This Canadian non-profit group works for the equality of same-sex couples under the law .
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Background information on the debate over legal recognition of same sex unions in Canada.
  
• - Examination of the Hendricks and Léboeuf case.
  
• - Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's views against same sex marriage.
  
• - Readers voice their opinions about same-sex marriages.
  
• - 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".