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A group of activists opposed to the 2015 Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum met with Premier Kathleen Wynne on April 29th demanding a withdrawal of the document.  They walked away empty-handed. Left to right: Gwen Landolt, Jotvinder Sodhi, Lorraine La Vigne and Maggie Amin look on. Photo: Lianne Laurence / LifeSiteNews LifeSiteNews had this to say: Speaking at an informal press conference outside Queen’s Park, the six vowed Ontario parents will keep fighting an odious curriculum they say will incalculably harm their children by exposing them to explicit sexual information far too early. As well as (Gwen) Landolt, national vice-president of REAL Women of Canada, the group included Jotvinder Sodhi of the Mississauga-based HOWA Voice of Parents , Feras Marish, representing the Muslim community, Christina Lui of the Chinese-Canadian Parents Alliance of Ontario , Maggie Amin, and Lorraine La Vigne. TheRebel.Media was there too. From Emily Pratt's ...

1950s Sex Education LP Recording I was reading up on some of the groups that participated in the April 14th My Child My Choice protest against the Ontario's 2015 Health and Physical Education Curriculum. A group calling themselves The Well Informed Parent caught my eye. From their website:  "We are parents representing parents. We have drawn on the considerable skill sets of many parents - such as educators, lawyers, concerned parents and medical professionals. That way we can be well equipped to make informed decisions in regards to our children's education and well-being." To this end, The Well Informed Parent has come up with alternatives to contested components of Human Development and Sexual Health   and other sections of the curriculum at various grades. To summarize, here are the most hotly contest contested components, as reported back in 2010 by Kathryn Blaze Carlson for the National Post : Grade 1: Identify body parts, including genitalia (pe...

Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario You know The International Day of Pink -- celebrated on the second Wednesday of April, since 2007 -- has become successful when you sit down to read the articles condemning it. And take a look at the people writing them. And the sources they cite. This year's celebration was no exception. All the usual suspects were out, encouraging parents to keep their kids at home from school and free of the statist exercise of politically correct indoctrination. Or, as I call it, facetiously, the great queering of Ontario's school children . There was this piece in LifeSiteNews:  ‘Day of Pink’ teaches school kids to accept homosexuality, critic warns The title is not entirely wrong, just incomplete. The official Day of Pink website , which operates under  The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) , formerly known as Jer's Vision , defines its mission as follows:  Welcome! The Day of Pink is t...