Education
You wouldn’t have thought a talk about the welfare of our children was controversial. But it has turned out to be.
“There is a dangerous intolerant totalitarianism, aided by timidity, strangling debate in this country,” writes Professor Richard Ennos as he describes the disturbing cancellation of my proposed talk to parents.
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Read MoreWe are learning more about the man at the centre of an investigation and the camp for children with autism his wife owns.
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Read MoreAn elementary school teacher in Windsor, Ontario was caught on tape berating Muslim students for skipping the school’s LGBTQ pride day, telling them their abstention was “disgusting” and “an incredible show of hatred” that made her not want to be their educator.
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Read MoreAn elementary school Principal issued an apology letter to parents of students after their teacher absolutely scolded them — mostly Muslim — for skipping Pride Day.
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Read MoreFox News host Laura Ingraham took a jab at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for lecturing Muslim parents that an “American right-wing” influence was to blame for their opposition to gender ideology.
Parents across Canada have taken to the streets in recent months to protest overtly sexual materials and LGBTQ content being pushed in schools.
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Read Moren what has become a fixture in the Westminster calendar, parliament’s intelligence and security committee has flagged threats from China. The seductive power of the yuan has proved irresistible to those in charge of Britain’s infrastructure and institutions, with universities especially having fallen for its charms.
Thirty British universities host Confucius Institutes. These offshoots of the Chinese state, supervised by Beijing’s ministry of education, ostensibly co-ordinate the teaching of Mandarin and the promotion of Chinese culture. But MPs noted that, once established, they allow Beijing to exert “influence over institutions, UK academics and Chinese students” as well as granting easy access to scientific and technological knowledge. The attraction of China to the UK’s cash-strapped universities is clear. Britain’s Confucius Institutes are estimated to have received
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Read MoreTony Blair’s expansion of higher education has transformed Britain – but perhaps not in the way he imagined CREDIT: Russell Boyce/Reuters
The Government has unveiled plans to cap the number of students studying for “low-value” degrees. This is a welcome intervention and, I hope, marks the beginning of the end for the overblown and under-scrutinised expansion of the higher education sector over the past 25 years. Tony Blair’s dream for half our young people to go to university has been realised, but to what end and at what cost?
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Read MoreA Quebec school district spent over $1600 on a drag queen conference with infamous children’s drag performer Barbada de Barbades.
Barbada is the drag personification of elementary school teacher Sebastien Potvin. He has been doing story hours for children as young as three years old since 2016, as previously reported by True North.
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Read MoreState Rep. Mesha Mainor won election as a Democrat in 2020 to serve the people of Georgia’s General Assembly District 56. But a Republican will now represent the solidly blue Atlanta House district.
On Tuesday, Mainor made headlines when she announced she was leaving the Georgia Democratic Party “establishment” due to her support for school choice programs in the state.
“It doesn’t matter what part of my district that people are in, parents are asking for choices,” Mainor said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
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Read MoreA BC author says child sex trafficking is a real, but preventable problem in Canada.
Cathy Peters released her book Child Sex Trafficking in Canada and How to Stop It in June. In the wake of public interest in the movie Sound of Freedom, Peters told the Western Standard how child exploitation manifests in Canada.
“There is definitely an increased sexualization of youth and children that’s occurring. As a result, you get increased childhood sexual assault and incest. That is not something we talk about, but it is very much there and a problem,” she said.
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