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Dec 6, 2020 · Barry Agnew, a Hudson Bay executive, believed a move to liberalize Sunday shopping laws in Ontario would set a trend in other parts of the country. "Ontario is the largest province in Canada and I ...
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On 24 April 1985 the Supreme Court of Canada in the BIG M DRUG MART case struck down the Lord's Day Act on the grounds that it contravened the freedom of religion and conscience provision in the CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS. Mr Justice Dickson concluded that the purpose of the Lord's Day Act was sabbatical observance and held that "To th...
While the Big M case was a landmark decision, it did not end the Sunday closing controversy. In fact it was probably just the first case of what will likely become known as the Supreme Court Sunday closing trilogy. The Big M decision stands for the proposition that legislation which has as its purpose the promotion of religious values is constituti...
The Alberta Court of Appeal dealt with the equal protection doctrine in its 1988 decision in the London Drugs case. It rejected an equal protection challenge to a municipal bylaw which obliged some retailers, as opposed to other sectors of the business community, such as wholesalers, manufacturers and construction enterprises, to close one day a we...
March 20, 1991. Ontario's Court of Appeal overturns the June 22, 1990 trial decision that struck down the ban on Sunday Shopping. As a result: the ban on Sunday shopping is immediately re-imposed. Full text of the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision to overturn the trial decision in Peel (Regional Municipality) v.
Sep 1, 2019 · Sundays once meant going to church – and very little else. Phil Egan “On the venerable Day of the Sun,” the Roman Emperor Constantine declared in 321 AD, “let the magistrates and people rest and let all workshops be closed.”. Laws against Sunday shopping and other regular activities are older than many think.
Faced with the prospect of a three-day closure, the Hudson’s Bay Company appealed to the province to allow it and other stores to open on Sunday, December 27. Some retailers believed that they could make use of a section of the law that allowed retailers to open on Sundays if they closed on Saturdays for religious reasons.
The current law [28] permits even the largest retailing venues to stay open on Sundays from 12 pm to 6 pm, and during the Christmas shopping season, beginning on the third Sunday of November and ending on 23 December, to 9 pm. Sunday shopping was introduced in 1994. [29]
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Jun 4, 2019 · However, shopping malls and grocery stores were required to be closed. And people didn't even dream of buying alcohol on a Sunday. The reason was the Lord's Day Act which forbade shopping on Sunday, a.k.a. the Sabbath. A prohibition on Sunday business has a very old pedigree, dating back to 321 A.D. to the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
