Catholic parents fight separate system to maintain moral teaching Ontario bishops have issued a memo urging Catholic school boards to set up clubs explicitly aimed to counter “bullying related to sexual orientation,” even though they banned the establishment of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) at Catholic schools just months ago. Meanwhile, parents at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) are speaking out against [...]
An analysis of the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM No. 199) dealing with “Developing and Implementing Equity and Inclusive Education Policies in Ontario Schools” says that while some goals are laudable, the new policy could imperil the Catholicity of the province’s separate school system. The analysis, prepared for Campaign Life Coalition by a retired educator, says there is “much that [...]
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. [...]
Canadian families as a whole are surviving – although not doing as well as before The headlines in papers and announcements from broadcasters on Stastics Canada’s report Family Portrait: Families, Marital Status, Households and Living Arrangementsdeclared the traditional family nearly dead. Reporters pointed to census data that shows for the first time in Canadian history, “more than one-half of the adult population [...]
He is Britain’s second-most popular children’s author. His books are bestsellers, have won numerous awards for literature and have received glowing reviews from all the fashionable newspapers. Critics hail him as a new Tolkien. His books pop up on many reading lists for young people and Hollywood is finishing the first film-adaptation of his most popular book – just in time for [...]
Kitchener school board situation serves as a sterling example The elevation of an “open mind” to the status of an unchallengeable moral principle is, as a matter of plain fact, a perfect example of being closed-minded. Professor Allan Bloom made this point in his best-selling critique of higher education, The Closing of the American Mind, a book that offended a legion of [...]
U.S. Southern Baptists are expressing concern over Wal-Mart’s dabbling in support of the homosexual agenda. They point out that typing the word “gay” into the company’s online bookstore search engine brings up more than 1,000 titles, including The Gay Disciple: Jesus’s Friend Tells It His Own Way. The Baptists are calling Wal-Mart on the family-friendly description it gives itself. This past spring, [...]
“Mind you, I don’t plan to be sexually active till at least 16,” said 13-year-old Kalen on national television, while her mother responded with laughter. “We have that on the record now,” she mom, smiling. The two were being interviewed for CBC’s The National in an in-depth look at the new vaccine Gardasil, which was unleashed this September on Ontario’s 13-year-old girls and [...]
Young Christian couples are rethinking contraceptive use and biblical teaching on human sexuality, in response to a growing awareness of the social damage caused by the sexual revolution, a foremost leader in the U.S evangelical community told Christianity Today magazine in October. Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., is a theologian and ordained minister, serving as president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, [...]
Interim Staff It’s strange how priorities change. What is more important to the individual parent: the education and welfare of her child or the tax policy of the federal government? While both are important, this is not always borne out by the relative interest that people take in local versus national election campaigns. Perhaps they should think again, especially in light of [...]
Editor’s Note: Please note there is sexually graphic and mature language in this story. Please use discretion in reading, or allowing children to read, this article. High school girls in Manitoba may soon be reading detailed instructions on lesbian sex acts as part of their normal sex education curriculum, after the provincial Ministry of Education accepted a manual emphasizing homosexuality as an [...]
A visiting celestial wanderer might easily conclude that we earthlings think happiness is utterly dependent on constant sexual stimulation and condomized activity from the time we cut our teeth. Very few of the activities that preoccupy us today are without sexual overtones. (Except maybe war.) So if that is the standard by which we measure happiness, our world should be happy, indeed. [...]