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TORONTO—As Pride Month kicked off on June 1, many Christians in Canada kept their children home from school to avoid events that don’t align with their faith.
A mother with a son in the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) in Aurora, Ont., pulled him out of school June 1 when she heard Pride Month was being celebrated in his high school, despite a much-publicized decision by the board not to fly the pride flag this month.
“You don’t need to raise some students by putting others down,” she told the Epoch Times. She preferred to give a pseudonym, Anna, to protect her son’s privacy. Anna is raising her son to have compassion for all people, she said, but to adhere to the Catholic faith’s view of marriage and sexuality—a view she sees as under attack even in the Catholic school system.
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Read MoreA bronze statue of Queen Elizabeth that was toppled on the grounds of the Manitoba legislature has been repaired and put back in place.
The three-metre-high statue was one of two monuments hauled to the ground on Canada Day in 2021 by demonstrators following the discovery of suspected unmarked graves at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
The statue landed face-first when it was toppled and was damaged in several areas, but remained intact.
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Read More‘It’s so-called #PrideMonth. Can we also have a month dedicated to not pushing your sex life, sexual fetishes, and gender confusion in everyone’s face, and on children in particular?’ the People’s Party of Canada leader asked.
People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier blasted the oversaturation of extreme transgender ideology on full display during “pride month,” notably when it comes to targeting kids, saying there should also be a month dedicated to not “pushing” one’s “gender confusion in everyone’s face.”
“It’s so-called #PrideMonth. Can we also have a month dedicated to not pushing your sex life, sexual fetishes, and gender confusion in everyone’s face, and on children in particular,” Bernier tweeted yesterday.
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Read MoreFormer Alberta United Conservative Party candidate Caylan Ford (Calgary-Mountain View) said the party’s re-election “means the government will continue to champion choice in education for another four years.”
“This is an enormous relief to the thousands of families enrolled in charter schools,” said Ford in a Wednesday tweet.
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Read MoreThe recent decision by a Catholic school board in Ontario’s York Region not to fly the pride flag during Pride Month in June is emblematic of a province-wide call to halt flag-raisings and other events expected in schools throughout the month.
Many parents are looking at pulling their children out of school during such events. A national walk-out is scheduled for June 1 and gaining traction.
“All this political propaganda that’s coming in, it’s all influences that the kids don’t need. They’re already confused enough,” German Reyes, a York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) parent, told The Epoch Times at a May 29 board meeting.
“They need to learn about sexuality and all that stuff, but they can learn from their parents.”
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Read MoreOn May 22, 2023, Janssen Biotech, Inc. requested the voluntary withdrawal of the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine. Janssen Biotech, Inc. informed the FDA that the last lots of the vaccine purchased by the U.S. Government have expired, there is no demand for new lots…
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Read MoreKate Beckinsale shared a throwback photo from the 1993 Cannes Film Festival on Instagram
The actress attended the event with her “Much Ado About Nothing” co-stars
Beckinsale said Keanu Reeves and Robert Sean Leonard helped her hold her gusset on the red carpet
Kate Beckinsale recounted her first experience at the Cannes Film Festival red carpet.
Beckinsale took to Instagram and shared a snap from the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In the shot, Beckinsale stands with Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves and Denzel Washington by her side.
“Fun fact though: I had bought the bodysuit in the Sock Shop at the airport, and when I got in the car to drive to the premiere with Denzel and Pauletta Washington, all the poppers in the crotch popped themselves open, and it flipped up like a roller blind.”
The “Underworld” star admitted that she was so scared that she “quietly panicked,” noting that she didn’t feel it was appropriate to go around in her undercarriage. So, she shared the incident with her co-stars Leonard and Reeves, who immediately helped her with her predicament.
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Read MoreA strong majority of Americans view family time as “very important” or “one of the most important” things in their lives, “far outranking other personal priorities,” a recent Pew Research Center survey found.
Roughly three-quarters (73 percent) of Americans rate spending time with family as one of the most important things to them personally, no matter how much time they actually spend with family.
“Nine-in-ten say they view it either as one of the most important things or as very important but not the most important thing,” according to the survey report.
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Read MoreAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill into law that extends the state’s ban on transgender athletes playing in women’s sports from K-12 and now to college sports.
The state had already passed a law in 2021 that prevents boys claiming to be girls from playing K-12 girls’ sports. But the new law prevents college students from participating in girl’s sports under their “chosen” gender, even if they have had gender reassignment surgery, Fox News reports.
“Look, if you are a biological male, you are not going to be competing in women’s and girls’ sports in Alabama. It’s about fairness, plain and simple,” Ivey said after signing the bill into law.
“Forcing women to compete against biological men would reverse decades of progress that women have made for equal opportunity in athletics,” Bill sponsor Republican Rep. Susan DuBose said during the debate of the bill.
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Read MoreSaskatoon’s Roman Catholic diocese supports the Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools (GSCS) administration following protests sparked by a leaked email last Thursday telling teachers to avoid the LGBTQ-themed Rainbow Tent at a children’s festival.
The message sent by GSCS Supt. Tom Hickey to school principals advised them to stop students from visiting the Rainbow Tent at the upcoming Nutrien Children’s Festival of Saskatchewan, as it was not to be “supported.”
A diocese spokesperson stated while they work with the school division on the well-being of students, the diocese did not provide any instruction about whether or not to visit the Rainbow Tent.
In a statement, Bishop Mark Hagemoen of Saskatoon said he supported the GSCS decision to avoid the Rainbow Tent.
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