Alberta Premier Danielle Smith issued a 7 minute statement yesterday to announce that gender identity policy changes are coming. The Premiers of New Brunswick and Saskatchewan have come under fire for announcing similar policies. Quebec announced that it will conduct a review of gender identity policies in schools and the…
New Gender Identity Policy Guidance The recent lawsuits filed against the governments of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have presented the issue of gender identity in schools as a conflict between parents’ rights and the rights of children. In fact, the rights and best interests of children will be best served…
Contributed by a Canadian lawyer currently making time for her 2 children. On June 8, 2023, the education minister for New Brunswick announced changes to a controversial policy that required teachers and staff to use a child’s preferred pronouns and preferred name, without parental consent. Policy 713 had come into…
I’m a parent at an Elementary-aged Public School in York Region District in Ontario. Sometime at the end of February, without parents’ knowledge, the school invited Canadian Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity to give a workshop on gender diversity and queer identity to students from Grade 5 to 8.…
Many articles have come out recently, in both Canada and the US, about schools hiding minor children’s trans identities from parents, under the guise of the human rights code. Parents also continue to be concerned that teachers are instructing their children that gender identity is a replacement for the biological…
Yesterday, a teacher at Waterloo Region District School Board attempted to present some of the materials recently made available to elementary-aged students there and raise questions about their appropriateness. The Chair of the Board interrupted the presentation and called a vote to determine whether Carolyn Burjoski should be able to…
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