Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Elementary teachers told to “decolonize minds” in anti-white seminar
Candice is joined by True North Wire journalist Melanie Bennet to discuss how radical ideologies in Canada’s education system are targeting parents, families, and foundational values.
Elementary teachers told to “decolonize minds” in anti-white seminar: Educators attending an anti-racism conference were told by a Toronto District School Board employee to view “whiteness” as a destructive force controlling what people wear to what they eat.
School board trains staff that the term ‘family’ is harmful, racist: Waterloo Region District School Board staff are being trained that the word “family” is a harmful concept rooted in white supremacy.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
"Gender Affirming Care?" There is nothing affirming about it.
Our Children are being abused, Sexually, Physically, Spiritually,
Emotionally, Psychologically.....
How did we get to this level of depravity?
Traditionally minded Catholics everywhere are swelling in numbers
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
Catholic Register - Alberta scrutinizes library books for illicit content
https://www.catholicregister.org/item/2316-alberta-scrutinizes-library-books-for-illicit-content
Parent groups are among those applauding the Alberta government’s newly announced efforts to scrutinize the books appearing on library shelves in the province's schools.
Responding to the discovery of sexual content contained in numerous books in K-12 school libraries, Alberta's Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides unveiled a new online survey on May 26 to enable Albertans to share input on potential new standards in selecting and managing written materials. The public had until June 6 to participate.
“As a parent, it is extremely concerning to me to find out that books explicitly depicting sexual acts are available to students in some school libraries,” said Nicolaides. “We are going to do something about this serious issue by consulting Albertans and creating standards to ensure students do not have access to age-inappropriate materials in school libraries.”
School boards will be expected to implement the new standards by the start of the 2025-26 school year. The new criteria will apply to public, separate, francophone, charter and independent schools.
Among the groups praising the plan is Parents for Choice in Education (PCE) John Hilton-O’Brien, the executive director of PCE, said his organization has been collaborating with concerned parents on this issue for multiple years. Information was sent to the provincial government last fall, igniting an investigation.
Hilton-O’Brien said “unlike passive media influences, school libraries are spaces that children are taught to trust. Material on those shelves carries the weight of authority. When you put it in the library, it's not just a book. It’s a message that the school endorses.”
He said the “consultation process is a crucial opportunity — but only if families make their voices heard over the paid activists.”
Action4Canada, a Christian grassroots movement striving to defend faith, family and freedom, characterized the public consultation as “a positive step toward restoring morality and common sense in education.”
Action4Canada had communicated with government officials for months leading up to the announcement and provided examples of some of the books being featured on library shelves. The group also provided information about the potential harms of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) 123 tools and resources for cultivating inclusive schools for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Several titles deemed as inappropriate — and some the explicit passages — were spotlighted, including Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel about an odyssey towards choosing to be identified as non-binary, that was found on K-9 shelves within the Calgary Board of Education and the Edmonton Public School Board. And Flamer, a semi-autobiographical novel by children’s author and illustrator Mike Curato containing “sexual activity, nudity, self-harm, violence, profanity and derogatory terms,” according to the government, is being found in elementary schools despite a 14+ recommended reading age.
Jack Fonseca, director of political operations at Campaign Life Coalition, said Nicolaides’ press conference “was an answer to prayer” and a credit to all the pro-family activists working with the United Conservative Party.
“It's also a testament to the parents who are making their voices heard to the minister, as he admitted that this information was unknown to him,” said Fonseca. “He didn't know that (there were) pornographic books in (the) schools until parents showed him the pages and he could see it for himself.”
Yet others responded cautiously to the news, including Dennis MacNeil, the president of the Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta.
“While this is a very contentious issue, we are pleased that the government is consulting with Albertans prior to deciding any course of action,” stated MacNeil.
Lori Sigurdson, an Edmonton-based NDP MLA, denounced the initiative in an X post.
“Make no mistake — this actually IS about banning books — and Smith’s administration is not the first in history to target and ban books seen as contrary to its ideology in order to control public discourse,” wrote Sigurdson.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Pope Leo XIV clarifies Church teaching on marriage and family
(LifeSiteNews) — On this episode of Faith and Reason, Catholic political activist and former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine Deal Hudson joins John-Henry Westen and Deacon Keith Fournier once again to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s re-affirming of Catholic teaching on marriage and family. The trio also discusses the pontiff’s controversial bishops’ appointments, the election of Catholic Karol Nowrocki as Poland’s next president, and more.
The panel opened the episode by looking at Pope Leo XIV’s most recent Sunday homily for a Mass celebrating a Jubilee event for “Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly.” In his sermon, Leo praised marriage and the family.
Hudson emphasized how Leo seemed to indirectly denounce abortion while also praising charity.
“(Pope Leo XIV) said people are using the principle of human kindness, which we could call love or friendship, and they are using it to do evil. They are using it to abort. He didn’t say abort, but that’s clearly what he (meant),” Hudson said. “He put his finger on something that only someone well-trained in moral philosophy and theology would do. And I think that’s a real sign of hope for all of us.”
READ: Pope Leo XIV begins month of Sacred Heart by praising marriage and family
Deacon Keith echoed those sentiments, noting that the pontiff’s homily reminded him of the words of Pope John Paul II and Sacred Scripture.
“(The homily) was just wonderful. He spoke to families, children, grandparents, and the elderly, and it was so filled with hope and clear teaching on the sanctity of marriage and family and conjugal love and the importance of parents… It was so solid, and it was so (uplifting),” he said.
Deacon Keith continued: “It really seemed like I was listening to John Paul II, whose apostolic exhortation on the role of the Christian family in the modern world is still such a treasure.” Leo “seemed to be speaking right out of that beautiful tradition of the Church and the teaching of the … 2,000 years of teaching on the Christian family.”
Later in their discussion, the panel examined remarks Leo made about cohabitation and marriage during a recent seminar organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life. His comments appeared to correct previous statements made by Pope Francis about how cohabitation was “real marriage.”
Pope Leo XIV had described sacramental marriage as “not an ideal but the canon of true love between man and woman, total, faithful, fruitful love.”
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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