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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 ...
Jul 18, 1989
Church group plans to expand: Scientology courses to be taught in new building — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jul 6, 1989
Scientology faces new charges of harassment — Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma)More: link
Dec 22, 1988
Scientology church faces new claims of harassment — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: scientology-lies.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The year was 1976, one year after the Church of Scientology had secretly moved its spiritual headquarters to Clearwater, and Mayor Gabe Cazares was complaining too loudly for the church's comfort. So, as documents seized by the FBI would later show, the church's Clearwater office devised a scheme to "ruin Mayor Gabriel Cazares' political career by spreading scandal about his sex life." Church officials came up with ways to get Cazares' school records, birth records, anything — from checking with the ...
Nov 30, 1988
Tomlin ticket sales a record — Toronto Star (Canada)
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Toronto Star (Canada) LOS ANGELES (Reuter) - A 22-year-old actor was listed in critical condition yesterday after shooting himself in the mouth while re- enacting a scene from a movie at a student workshop.
Adam Hancock suffered the wound at a Beverly Hills theatre Monday as he recreated a scene from Lethal Weapon. In the scene a character played by Mel Gibson contemplates suicide and puts a gun in his mouth.
Horrified fellow students looked on as Hancock pulled the trigger of a semi-automatic ...
Aug 1, 1988
'Coke' ended careers of student and boxer — Toronto Star (Canada)
Jul 30, 1988
Canada – Scientology — Associated PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Bradley Source:
Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Church of Scientology in Canada has offered to donate a million dollars or more to the needy if the government drops criminal theft charges against it. The move was legally unprecedented. Ontario Attorney General Ian Scott reacted coolly and the
nation's leading newspaper termed the offer "offensive." Scott left the door open for lawyers to discuss Tuesday's proposal. It stems from a case charging church members with the theft of government documents about the church's activities ...
Jul 26, 1988
Scientology church offers to aid poor if charges dropped — Globe and Mail (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Moon Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) In what may be an unprecedented legal manoeuvre, the Church of Scientology of Toronto has offered to make substantial cash donations to community agencies working with the elderly and the poor if criminal charges against it are dropped. The offer was made yesterday in a letter written by the church’s lawyer, Clayton Ruby, and delivered to Ontario Attorney-General Ian Scott’s office. The church is charged with several counts of theft by church members of photocopies of confidential documents from Ontario Government ...
Dec 3, 1987
Court rejects bid to ban Scientologist's biography — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas Claridge Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) A Federal Court of Canada judge rejected a bid yesterday to ban Canadian publication of an unauthorized biography of L. Ron Hubbard, describing the Church of Scientology's founder as an author of "outlandish, foolish, vicious, racist writings." In dismissing a motion by Danish publisher New Era Publications International ApS, Mr. Justice Bud Cullen said the material supplied to the court by the plaintiff "falls far short of the evidence required to sustain" the request for an interim injunction. In the 10-page ...
Dec 2, 1987
Bid to ban book said 'harassment' by Scientologists — Toronto Star (Canada)
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Toronto Star (Canada) L. Ron Hubbard was portrayed yesterday in court as a devious cult leader who believed he'd gone to heaven — twice — and was ruthless in his treatment of those perceived as enemies of the church he founded. Hubbard, who died last year, advised his followers to use the courts to "harass and discourage" critics, lawyers for Key Porter Books argued in Federal Court. They said a court bid to stop publication of a biography of Hubbard is a thinly disguised ...
Dec 2, 1987
Lawyer says biography in breach of copyright — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas Claridge Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) A bid to block Canadian publication of an unauthorized biography of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, was portrayed yesterday by a lawyer for the would-be publisher as "an attempt to circumvent the rule that the dead cannot sue for libel." David Potts also told Mr. Justice Bud Cullen of the Federal Court of Canada that the bid for a temporary injunction was a masquerade and an abuse of process. The injunction is being sought by New Era ...
Jun 26, 1987
Court upholds warrants used by OPP in raid on Scientology — Toronto Star (Canada)
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Toronto Star (Canada) The Church of Scientology has lost the final round in its fight to quash search warrants that allowed some 250,000 documents to be seized in a 1983 raid on their Toronto headquarters. The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday rejected the church's application to challenge an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that the warrants were legal under the Constitution. Yesterday's decision validated the lower court's finding that groups cannot escape criminal investigation simply by claiming organized religion status. But church president Earl ...
Jun 14, 1986
Scientology 'purification' rite used by anti-addiction centres — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lindsay Scotton Source:
Toronto Star (Canada) A controversial "purification" regime used by the Church of Scientology to advance members' spiritual enlightenment is also being used by
Narconon , a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, and is being offered at a Toronto health clinic. The
"Purification Rundown" used by Narconon and the Lafayette Health Centre uses large vitamin dosages, exercise and long hours in the sauna to "cleanse" the body of accumulated impurities, according to Narconon officials and the health centre's director. Costs of the treatment offered ...
Apr 29, 1986
Lower court can ban publication of Scientology hearing, judge rules — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rick Haliechuk Source:
Toronto Star (Canada) An Ontario Supreme Court judge says a lower court can ban publication of the hearing of a Scientologist who is pleading guilty of possessing a stolen document. Mr. Justice David Watt yesterday sent the case of Kathleen Lepp back to Provincial Court, but to a different judge than the one who ruled in January he lacked authority to issue the ban. Lepp, other current and former members of the church and the church itself are facing a variety of criminal charges. ...
Apr 4, 1986
Inside Scientology — Finally [A history of controversy] — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Curran ,
Jennifer Pratt Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) A History of Controversy As anyone who follows the news knows, Scientology has been involved in a series of controversial cases, many of them involving vengeful church actions against its critics. (More on this below.) Although the church always paints itself as the victim, its critics suggest that Scientology hasn't been persecuted from the outside, but rather is the victim of warped and misplaced priorities inside the church. The critics — and there are more than the church is willing to ...
Jan 5, 1986
Lawyer seeks publication ban in Church of Scientology case — Toronto Star (Canada)
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Toronto Star (Canada) The Church of Scientology and some of its members who were charged after a raid on its headquarters are asking for a publication ban on a guilty plea by one of the co-accused. Kathleen Lepp, 37, of Niagara-on-the-Lake, charged with possession of stolen property, appeared in Provincial Court at old city hall Friday. Defence counsel Clay Ruby, on behalf of the church and other lawyers representing some of the co-accused, asked Judge Robert Dnieper to impose a ban on the proceedings ...
Dec 14, 1985
OPP Scientology raid finally nets guilty plea — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Murray Campbell Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Nearly three years after the largest police raid in Ontario history, the provincial Government has finally won a guilty plea from a member of the Church of Scientology of Toronto. Nanna Anderson, 39, a former church member, pleaded guilty in Provincial Court yesterday to possession of stolen goods, photocopies of material from the files of the Ontario Medical Association. Judge Lorenzo DiCecco granted Miss Anderson an absolute discharge, which means she will not have a criminal record. The charge carries a ...
Nov 9, 1985
Wedding party of Scientologists winds up in Queen's Park office — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Susan Delacourt Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Earl Smith, president of the Toronto Church of Scientology, was married yesterday in a ceremony that is not considered legal in Ontario, and he used the occasion to push for having his church licenced to conduct marriages. Immediately after their wedding, Mr. Smith and his bride, Elena Kristiansen, 27, headed for the offices of the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations to plead that the Scientology ceremony be considered legal. But the ministry is waiting for the outcome of a Supreme ...
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 ...
Jul 15, 1985
Scientology supplement [Letter] — Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Globe and Mail (Canada) Toronto ONT — I was really delighted that The Globe and Mail circulated the 18- page supplement on Scientology. It is not surprising that some of your readers would take exception to this. Ignorance and bigotry is a burden that is carried on the shoulders of a few of us and, thank God, it is only the minority and does not express the majority. Paul Jaconello MD Toronto
May 30, 1985
Cult invasion [Letter] — Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Globe and Mail (Canada) I wish to express my profound disappointment in The Globe and Mail for allowing the cult organization called the Church of Scientology to invade the homes of unsuspecting readers. I am surprised that a national newspaper of such academic standing would take part in such an insidious effort to benefit the cause of scientology, considering The Globe's long running commitment to public awareness. Ray Scott St. Catharines, Ont.
May 30, 1985
Where will The Globe now draw the line in its advertising policy? [Letter] — Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Globe and Mail (Canada) Your newspaper, by including an 18-page advertising supplement on Scientology in its May 18 issue, has lent the credibility and prestige of Canada's most respected daily newspaper to an organization recently found guilty of fradulent practices in an American civil suit. Thursday, May 30, 1985 Richard Sandbrook Toronto ONT
May 22, 1985
Alberta education department will support Scientology school — Toronto Star (Canada)
Mar 6, 1985
Advertisement: Scientologists win landmark decision against government harassment — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jan 25, 1985
Scientology wins round in legal fight [article missing] — Calgary Herald (Canada)
Jan 1, 1985
Scientology — CBC
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