{"id":14168,"date":"2022-12-15T22:21:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=14168"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:20:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T23:20:57","slug":"bc-court-of-appeal-decision-on-indigenous-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/bc-court-of-appeal-decision-on-indigenous-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Court of Appeal Decision on Indigenous Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hide-on-main\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-action_or_info wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/action_or_info\/for-info\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Information<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-release_date article-release-date wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/release_date\/2022-12-16\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday December 16 2022<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">BC Court of Appeal Decision on Indigenous Ceremonies<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This week the BC Court of Appeals (BCCA) rendered its decision on a parent\u2019s <em>Charter<\/em> challenge to a smudging ceremony and hoop dance at a school in SD70 (Pacific Rim) in 2015. The BCCA upheld the lower court\u2019s decision that the ceremony did not interfere with the right to freedom of religion under the Charter and confirmed that public educational institutions can and should be involved in reconciliation efforts. You can find the full decision <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bccourts.ca\/jdb-txt\/ca\/22\/04\/2022BCCA0421.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the BC Court of Appeals (BCCA) rendered its decision on a parent\u2019s Charter challenge to a smudging ceremony and hoop dance at a school in SD70 (Pacific Rim) in 2015. The BCCA upheld the lower court\u2019s decision that the ceremony did not interfere with the right to freedom of religion under the Charter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/bc-court-of-appeal-decision-on-indigenous-ceremonies\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"action_or_info":[353],"release_date":[657],"division":[666],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[298],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-14168","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-for-info","release_date-2022-12-16","division-sls","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-principals-vice-principals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/14168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/14168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14467,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/14168\/revisions\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"action_or_info","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_or_info?post=14168"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=14168"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=14168"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=14168"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=14168"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=14168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}