CANADA GAY CASE
February 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEA CANADIAN bookseller is facing a hefty legal bill after the Appeal Court of British Columbia (BC) overturned an earlier ruling that costs in a case against Canada Customs should be born by the government agency. Little Sisters Bookstore had won a long-running case at the BC Supreme Court, telling the customs agency to stop seizing its international book deliveries. The bookshop, serving mainly gay and lesbian readers, persuaded that court that officials were illegally and arbitrarily seizing books available elsewhere in Canada. However, Canada ...
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