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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 ...

The big talk today is the  Sex Ed protest at Queen's Park , organized by  Campaign Life Coalition , but I wanted to take a look back at last Saturday's protest at Valley Park MS,  organized by Thorncliffe Parents Association, which had already staged a protest in  Thorncliffe Park on March 14th . Reports  LifeSiteNews , "the Premier managed to slip away through a fire emergency exit rather than face her constituents." Valley Park Protest -- LifeSiteNews To be fair, the Premier tried talking to protestors days before. It looked like this. From the  Toronto Star : "...Wynne said she believed the  Mississauga event  was organized behind the scenes by federal Tory activists trying to use sex education as a wedge issue to fan parental fears. And she is braced for more of the same in the months leading up to a federal election this fall." Mississauga Protest -- Toronto Star It's not a stretch to make that conclusion, with several f...

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...