Articles tagged Ontario Sex Ed

Tuesday June 22, 2010 No To Ontario Premier McGuinty’s Sex Education Commentary By Fr. Alphonse de Valk (this article is republished with permission from the June 10, 2010 edition of Catholic Insight magazine) June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On April 22, 2010, Premier Dalton McGuinty and his education minister, Leona Dombrowsky, announced a new sex education program for public and Catholic schools in Ontario. This plan had been prepared beforehand by then-education minister Kathleen Wynne, who lives a lesbian lifestyle with her same-sex partner. The program for Grade 1 stipulated that children learn all parts of the human body, including all sexual […]

Thursday April 22, 2010 Ottawa Archbishop Urges “Firestorm of Response” to Explicit Sex Ed Curriculum By Patrick B. Craine Update: Since this story was published, Premier McGuinty has announced that he is indefinitely suspending plans to implement the new sex-ed curriculum across the board, due to the intense backlash that it has received. Read more here. OTTAWA, Ontario, April 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa has called on Ontario Catholic parents to issue “a firestorm of response” to the Ontario government in light of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s assertion Wednesday that Catholic schools will be required to implement a new […]

By Patrick B. Craine Update: Since this story was published, Premier McGuinty has announced that he is indefinitely suspending plans to implement the new sex-ed curriculum across the board, due to the intense backlash that it has received. Read more here. TORONTO, Ontario, April 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced Wednesday that the Ontario government will be requiring Catholic schools to teach the new provincial, explicit sex ed curriculum that been slammed not only by Catholic leaders but the Progressive Conservative party and secular columnists. “They're part of the publicly funded school system here in Ontario and this […]

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, April 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After intense criticism in recent days, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced this afternoon that he has decided to delay implementing the government’s controversial and explicit new elementary sex ed curriculum. “It’s become pretty obvious to us that we need to give this a serious rethink,” he told reporters.  He admitted that the changes in the new curriculum had been communicated poorly, and noted that parents were clearly distressed over it.  The government must “find a policy and a curriculum that [parents are] comfortable with,” he said. “The net we […]