We hope she changes her mind. However, if Claire Brosseau wants to end her life, she doesn’t have to advertise it as a form of victimhood, and be exploited to expand the culture of death in Canada.
In Canada, you now get a journalism award for making sure the myth of a mass grave at a residential school is true. It was genocide. Denialism of the myth is the woke journalistic sin. Don’t be Canada.
John Taylor Gatto spent over 26 years teaching in the American public school system in New York State. He even won the teacher of the year award in 1990. At one point, he just concluded that he had enough and decided to quit. He went on to try and expose the reasons why the systems fails students and parents. While it claims to deliver academic excellence it ends up delivering academic mediocrity at best. He once said, "It's impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing." The public school system is a monopoly to conform. Gatto’s book Dumbin Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, the Underground History of American Education, and Weapons of Mass Instruction best sums up his views about the public education system. Here's his telling "I quit, I think" statement. It was published in the The Wall Street Journal 35 years ago but is even more relevant in our time of wokeness and political correctness. In Ontario, Minister of Education Paul Calandra is trying …
However, the real concern isn’t about Catholicity but their jobs, how much they are paid, the amount of discretionary spending, and whether they will still in charge of the board budget.
For this year's Catholic Education Week, the Ottawa Catholic District School Board came together to celebrate Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica and hand out 36 awards for Excellence in Catholic Education. All 36 winners are listed on the school board website. We ask: Where is the excellence in Catholic education? The exercise is more to do with PR than true Catholic awards. The Board says, "This year’s theme, Pilgrims of Hope: On the Path to Holiness, focused on who we are as a community and how we move forward together." Archbishop Marcel Damphousse was present along with staff, families and colleagues. The board has even published a booklet about the winners. But where is the hope and the holy place? A more appropriate title would be "Pilgrims of Secularism." The awards claim to be about putting Catholic education in action, building the community and inspiring futures. But what does this actually mean? We're told, "The recipients reflect the very best of our system. They create …
During Catholic Education Week, the Ottawa Catholic District School Board handed out 36 “Excellence in Catholic Education” awards. Yet critics say the event reflected secular activism more than authentic Catholic identity. Many award recipients were recognized for equity and inclusion initiatives, while Ontario’s Catholic teachers’ union is currently developing 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion curriculum for all elementary grades, including kindergarten.
Mon May 4, 2026 - 1:01 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has unveiled a new social media attack campaign against parental rights. The museum claims that Canadian parental rights movements “aim to deny 2SLGBTQI+ youth their fundamental rights” and are rooted in so-called “transphobia and homophobia that can have very serious consequences.” In an X post released on “Transgender Day of Visibility,” the Winnipeg-based institution outlined a variety of criticisms directed towards the parental rights movement, branding it as being a shield for removing the rights of gay and trans-identifying students. CMHR is a national institution established by Parliament and funded primarily through federal tax dollars. Its self-described purpose is being the “first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights.” The group stated that parental rights movements attempt to “force teachers to notify parents if a student changes their …
May 4 "Do you pass the Israel test?" We failed This telling 12 year-old short PragerU video asks the question: "Do you pass the Israel test?" The "yes" answer it pushes is presumptuous and condescending to anyone who is not Jewish. All nations must emulate Israel's "success" or sink. Here's the posted description on You Tube of the video: Would you believe us if we said that the best litmus test of any society's success is its attitude towards Israel? Well, it's true. As George Gilder explains, whether a society envies and resents Israel's success or celebrates and tries to replicate it is indicative of that society's progress. Countries that "pass" the "Israel Test" tend to rise. Those who don't tend to sink. So, does your society pass the "Israel Test"? In five minutes, find out.The "Israel Test" is one test not worth passing. May 3 Pope Leo XIII's 130 year-old message for Catholic Education Week 2026 The Archbishop of Toronto Cardinal Frank Leo has issued a message for Catholic …
The Archbishop of Toronto Cardinal Frank Leo has issued a message for Catholic Education Week, running May 3-8. In part he writes, Our publicly funded Catholic education remains a cherished gift in this province, and one we nurture with great care. It is our responsibility to offer an authentic Christian witness and teaching, guiding our youth to discover the personal love of Christ. As pilgrims, we accompany them, fostering their growth in faith and indeed hope, that they may become instruments of God’s transforming grace in the world. This lofty calling requires that we remain steadfast to the Gospel of Life, the truths of our Traditions, and to reject the different cultural and nefarious ideologies that undermines our authentic Catholic identity and life in Christ. Catholic education in Ontario is a gift. However, it comes with the responsibility to promote and protect the truth, faith and hope found in the Gospel. Since 2009, both the public and separate school boards have …
As far as I am aware, Catholic education is a right (Constitutional Act 1867 - Section 93) not a gift. This was something agreed upon by hard won 'deal-breaker' negotiations, not bestowed from above. One cannot quibble, however, with the Catholic faith being a 'treasure' which the Church in Canada, and Canadian Catholic parents must safeguard from those who seek to replace that treasure with the 'fool's gold' of this world. I would respectfully encourage Cardinal Leo, his peers, and Canadian Catholic parents to reject timidity in securing that treasure.
Pope Leo XIII’s message was sent to Canada but it applies to all Catholic parents in the world: protect and promote Catholic education for your children today and tomorrow.
The Archdiocesan of Toronto newspaper The Catholic Register on April 30, 2026, posted an open letter written by Morgan Ste. Marie, chair of the Durham Catholic District School Board. A number of schools boards in Ontario have come under government supervision. Some form of governance reform is soon coming. The letter tries to defend the importance of Catholic trustees and what it would mean if the government decoded to get rid of them. Here's Ste. Marie's message followed by our response: After a few months of speculation about school board governance, a decision on the future of school boards is expected soon. Yet one critical question remains: What would happen if we diminished the role of elected school board trustees? Loss of local involvement Elected school trustees serve as vital links between the community and the education system. We communicate, respond and are accountable to parents, students, and local communities, ensuring that the values and needs of those we represent …
In an effort to push diversity, inclusion and equity education, most Ontario school boards, including Catholic boards, have also implemented Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy (CRRP). Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy was aggressively started in Ontario public schools back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later and millions of tax dollars and what have we got to show for it? We hope this post answers the question. The boards and the Doug Ford government continue to argue today CRRP fosters a safe and positive learning environments by focusing on student identities, removing systemic barriers and developing appropriate curricula. CRRP and equity education are said to improve student academic achievement. Boards implementing CRRP must identify harmful harmful behaviours. These are anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Black racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. Administrators and teachers must address individual power imbalances both at the individual level and …
Yesterday, the liturgy celebrated the memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, a Doctor of the Church. She was a Dominican and papal counsellor. We post here her insightful reflection of the day from the Magnificat. It's titled, "His Love Enlightens." True and perfect love is so agreeable, so pleasant and sweet, that no bitterness can detract from its sweetness. Nor can bitterness disturb it. Even more, it is spiritually strengthening, because it brings us closer to our Creator. And in him we taste the sweetness of his love and are convinced in lively faith that whatever God gives and permits us is for our good and to make us holy. On what evidence? On the evidence of Christ’s blood, which lets us see by the light of faith—for if he had wanted anything less than our good, God would never have given us such a Redeemer as was the Word, his Son, and the Son would never have given his life as he did, with such blazing love, hammering out oursins on his own body! He fills us with strength and …
According to a report from the National Post, Dr. Karine Katchadourian – one of the first doctors in Canada to provide hormones to trans-identifying youth – stated at a virtual lecture for the University of Alberta in February that she now believes the “majority of youth” should not be medicalized. Khatchadourian is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Ottawa as well as a pediatric endocrinologist who works at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. She began providing hormones to minors with gender dysphoria in 2014 and, according to the National Post, “some 250 to 300 gender-distressed children and teens have been under her care over the years.” According to the National Post’ssummary of the lecture: The field is in a highly consequential grey zone with contradictory findings at best, the Ottawa doctor told a virtual audience. The evidence doesn’t allow doctors to say with confidence whether puberty suppression has psychological benefits or not and …
This child abuse should have never been started in the first place. You can't change your biological sex. Sure, you can change the map but not the territory it represents.
Wed Apr 29, 2026 - 2:56 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — There is a particular kind of sentence that does not require embellishment. It does not need adjectives. It does not benefit from rhetorical inflation. It simply needs to be stated plainly – and then be allowed to do its work: Seventeen babies were born alive in Alberta following labor-induced late-term abortions in 2025 and left to die. That’s it. That’s the sentence. Seventeen. Seventeen babies. Seventeen times. In Alberta. In 2025. Born alive and then? No life-sustaining intervention. No automatic presumption in favor of care. No clear, system-wide requirement that birth triggers a clinical reset. Instead, within the system administered by Alberta Health Services, the response is shaped in advance: a non-interventional pathway, established before the child is even born, and carried through after the child is. This is not a failure of the system; it is how the system is designed to function. If that sounds implausible, it is only …