October 17 Ottawa Harry Kopyto, a […]

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1977-10-17

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October 17 Ottawa Harry Kopyto, a lawyer representing GATE (Vancouver), appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada to present the case concerning the refusal of the Vancouver Sun to print an ad for Gay Tide. The Court was to decide whether to hear GATE's appeal against the B.C. Court of Appeal decision of June 10, 1977, which upheld the right of the Vancouver Sun to refuse an ad for GATE's newspaper Gay Tide. This was the first time in Canada that the Supreme Court of Canada heard a gay civil rights case. (See also November 8, 1977.)

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