Education
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) has been facing protests from Muslim parents who oppose the radical gender identity ideology being taught in the school system.
The OCDSB allows students to use the washroom that matches their gender identity, regardless of their birth sex.
The protesters claim the OCDSB is “reprogramming a child’s identity” and demands teachers tell parents before teaching anything related to gender.
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Read MoreThe head of the Black Lives Matter movement in Calgary has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly impeding access to a Catholic school.
Court records show Adora Nwofor was charged with mischief on June 2, in connection with an incident on May 26, for allegedly “wilfully obstructing and interfering” with the use of a property “primarily used for religious worship and educational purposes.”
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Read MoreAmong the many books that conservative parents have recently asked their children’s schools to remove is a lushly illustrated version of the most famous Holocaust diary.
The graphic adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, published in English in 2018, has found itself at the center of a growing number of controversies involving book removals from school libraries. A small number of passionate activists have pushed for the book to be removed from schools in Florida and Texas, calling it “pornography” and even “antisemitic.” Sometimes, they’ve succeeded.
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Read More‘Peddling porn’: Virginia parents outraged over sexually explicit children’s books at public library
On Tuesday, June 6, the Warren County government held a Board of Supervisors meeting to hear from county citizens on a proposed increase of funding for the Samuels Public Library of Front Royal, Virginia, despite efforts by local families through a grassroots campaign called Clean Up Samuels Library, which exposed the Library’s collection of children’s books featuring pornographic content. A representative for the group spoke to LifeSiteNews and said that the meeting was a “decisive victory” with around 250 young parents “coming out for our side.” He continued that “Warren County residents want to uphold family values and not having taxpayer dollars going toward peddling porn for kids.”
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Read MoreNotorious climThunberg, who has been criticized over the years for her activism, and even had run-ins with The Counter Signal’s Keean Bexte, took to Twitter to explain that she has ended her 251-week run of striking.
“School strike week 251. Today, I graduate from school, which means I’ll no longer be able to school strike for the climate. This is then the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day,” she wrote.ate activist Greta Thunberg has finally ended her years-long school strike and has managed to graduate high school at 20-years-old.
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Read MoreJune 12, 2023
Alberta’s business leaders need to step up and start demanding better results from the provincial education system. Michael Van Pelt, President and CEO of non-partisan think tank Cardus, made that call in an open letter to Alberta business leaders today.
“Business leaders need to be much more informed about the well-being of K–12 schooling in the province and advocate more strongly for educational choice, so that all school sectors produce the graduates with the basic skills and attributes of character that all businesses rely on—and that thriving economies require,” Van Pelt writes in the in open letter.
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Read MoreThe children’s show Sesame Street continued its ongoing celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month this week despite backlash over past tweets. Sharing the multi-colored progress pride flag amid smiling flowers, the official Sesame Street account on Twitter celebrated the month as a time of “inclusion” and other cherished woke buzzwords.
“On our Street, we celebrate inclusion, belonging, and freedom of authentic self-expression. Happy #PrideMonth to all the people in our neighborhoods!” it said.
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Read MoreLists cases (current and past) of sexual misconduct by teachers and healthcare professionals as well as institutional abuse. Resources include videos and contacts for activists.
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Read MoreOshawa’s Ontario Tech University is holding segregated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) clubs for black youth – with funding from the Government of Canada.
The university also ran workshops dedicated to those who identify as black girls.
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Read MoreIn an unprecedented display of unity, Christian and Muslim communities joined hands with concerned parents in Ottawa in opposition to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s (OCDSB) plan to force non-binary pronouns on all students.
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