A protracted-running authorized battle is over for a Calgary non-public faculty that had been making an attempt to overturn a tribunal’s discovering that it discriminated in opposition to two Muslim college students barred from praying on campus.
The Supreme Courtroom of Canada says it received’t hear the most recent enchantment from the non-denominational Webber Academy.
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Faculty president Neil Webber says he’s upset however not stunned, and there’s no different means ahead.
He says the college can pay the unique $26,000 advantageous imposed by the Alberta Human Rights Fee and can take care of any future prayer service requests from mother and father.
The dispute dates again to February 2012, when the mother and father of two college students who had been denied an area to hope on the faculty filed complaints with the fee.
The scholars’ spiritual beliefs required them to hope 5 instances a day, together with a couple of times throughout faculty hours.
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