The 1998 Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum is less explicit than the revised edition. In the 1998 curriculum, Grade 1 students are only required to learn “the major parts of the body,” but not the proper names of genitalia. In Grade 3, students must outline “the basic human and animal reproductive processes.” There is no reference to learning about gender identity [...]
There are different ways in which sex education is taught around the world. In the Netherlands, the national curriculum, in a primary school target, only mandates that “pupils learn about the makeup of plants, animals and humans and about the form and function of their parts.” Nevertheless, in a society that readily tolerates contraception, sexuality education and abortion, over half of the [...]
McGuinty withdraws but doesn’t nix liberalized curriculum Editor’s Note: There is sexually explicit content in this news article. On April 22, after two days of intense protest from parents and pro-family groups, Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty announced he would delay the implementation of a new sex ed curriculum to re-examine its contents. The controversy began after Rev. Charles McVety, [...]
The sex education controversy in Ontario has sparked debate about what sort of education is most appropriate for children. For many parents, and certainly among religious and pro-family groups, there is widespread concern and agreement that sex education should delay intercourse, prevent STIs and maintain cultural values, although there is debate as to how it should be taught and at what age. [...]
Small Dead Animals looks at a recent Peter Singer article in the New York Times which explores the question, ""Is a world with people in it better than one without?" and an interview with late cult leader Jim Jones.
The Canadian Labour Congress has criticized the Canadian government for not including abortion in its maternal health initiative because the labour union buys the "full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health care rights" line pushed by pro-abortion groups from the Guttmacher Institute to the World Health Organization to the Obama administration, who all say abortion and condoms are necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of [...]
Our June editorial is about the aggressive sex education program pushed by the Ontario government and parental control of their children's education. Although the curriculum's implementation has been postponed parents need to remain vigilant. However, the thrust of the editorial is to place the sex ed curriculum within a context, namely the secular and progressive liberalism of Pierre Trudeau. An excerpt: In 1967, Pierre Trudeau famously declared: “There’s no [...]
We usually complain about media ignoring pro-life activities and when they do cover pro-lifers there is often a bias against the pro-life message. So we should give credit where it is due: CTV has done a great job covering a campaign by the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform in Calgary that includes trucks with billboards on them as well as sidewalk demonstrations [...]
There are many things to deplore about the lurid sexual education component of the new curriculum which the McGuinty has proposed for all Ontario primary schools. The ideologically-motivated attempt to pervert young children in the name of “sexual health” is, indeed, deplorable, but is also predictable: for years, social liberals have taken fringe psychoanalysts as their gurus—radicals who have exchanged the ancient [...]
She even misrepresents a polite hello. Joseph Ben-Ami explains.
You can watch a six-video Munk Debate between author Jane Cawthorne and Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. In total the debate is less than six minutes and the issue is whether abortion is part of maternal health or not. You can vote on who won. Mrozek talked about foisting abortion upon the developing world and what women really need. [...]
Editor’s Note: Cameron Wilson, a student at the University of Calgary, gave this speech to the media on April 19, read on behalf of the team of pro-life students who were charged with non-academic misconduct for displaying the Genocide Awareness Project on campus. We of Campus Pro-Life have been told countless upon countless occasions that the Genocide Awareness Project, and the pictures [...]
After controversy surrounding the federal government’s funding of Toronto Gay Pride festivities, Stephen Harper re-assigned responsibilities for the Marquee Tourism Events Program, which gave $397,500 to the homosexualist organization, to Industry Minister Tony Clement from Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism Diane Ablonczy. Pro-family organizations were outraged that the celebration of homosexuality, which often features scantily clad and naked demonstrators [...]
New stories from the June issue about the National March for Life in Ottawa: Our coverage of last month's National March for Life: "12,500 march for life in Ottawa." Click on the photo galleries in that story. There were also marches for life in eight of the ten provinces outside central Canada: "Provincial marches for life attracts thousands." The youth are always a [...]
Ezra Levant at The Mark on the need to reform the Canadian Human Rights Commission: The government should not wait for the question of political censorship to work its way through the courts. It should act now to repeal Section 13 and to make other badly needed reforms to the CHRC, including bringing in a civil liberties oversight committee to monitor abuses by [...]