Everyday For Life Canada: August 2022

Have you heard of AFFIRM? It's much more than what the word suggests

Parents, have you heard of AFFIRM? It's much more what the word means. It's actually a group that may come to an Ontario school board near you. It's already offered at the Waterloo Region District School Board and the Peel District School Board. Here's what their website states:

AFFIRM is an eight session, manualized intervention. It is focused on reducing depression and improving coping and sexual self-efficacy for LGBTTQQ2SA youth and adults by providing them opportunities to develop identity cognition (self-awareness, identifying risk), mood (recognizing the link between thoughts and feelings), and behaviour (identifying strengths and ways of coping), as well as equipping them with the tools to manage and influence those factors by themselves.

Aug

Yes, drag queen story hour as a teaching strategy

Those pushing the Drag Queen Story Hour (DQAH) for children, empathy and tolerance, is no longer good enough to understand others.

Aug

Timely, great and truthful Open Letter to Jordan Peterson

Author Gabriele Kuby has written a great, courageous and truthful Open Letter to Jordan Peterson. In it, she does an excellent job to counter Peterson's argument in support for gay marriage and artificial reproduction. It was also published by LifeSiteNews. The Open Letter comes as an answer to Peterson who was a guest on David Rubin's podcast called, "Gay Parenting and Pitfalls".

Kuby's latest book from St. Augustine's Press is The Abandoned Generation.

Aug

We can't use secular language to defend biology and Biblical teaching on human sexuality

Parents who want to help their children deal with the confusion about human sexuality today, can begin by not using the secular language of the day. If parents want to defend biology, truth and Biblical teaching about the person and human identity, they must use their own language. An example of this error comes from a recent article by Sr. Helena Burns titled, "Helping youth toward gender reality."

Stop right there with the title.

Aug

Voting for good Catholic trustees in Ontario's Municipal election 2022

To help Ontario Catholic parents make a good choice when it comes to voting for school trustees, we post a Pastoral Letter on Catholic Schools by the bishops of British Columbia, published in 2016. If Catholics want to keep their schools from being colonized by total secularism, they must get seriously involved.

One important action is to work to elect good and faithful trustees who will govern separate schools based on Catholic teaching, not the politically progressive ideas of the day.

Aug

Ontario Catholics have no plan to elect good trustees

The deadline to register as a candidate for the Municipal Election was today. Once again in this 2022 election cycle, Ontario Catholics had no central plan to select good and faithful trustee candidates. It was left to groups, individuals and parishes to take the initiative. One could explain the unpreparedness if this Municipal Election was the first time Catholics had to select and vote for trustees to govern their schools and defend Catholic education. But no, we do it every four years.

Aug

The Vatican has abandoned the people by pushing Covid-19 "vaccination"

The Vatican has abandoned the people by refusing to stand for freedom of conscience and the protection of personal medical privacy when it comes to taking the experimental Covid-19 "vaccine". The faithful have been told to get the shot. This is bad advice morally and medically. The Vatican decision has nothing to do with science. Politics should not be driving the universal Church's pastoral plan.

The Vatican also decided to issue new coins to celebrate their push for the "vaccine".

Aug

Shame on the University of Toronto for forcing students to take three shots

Shame on the University of Toronto for forcing students to take three shots of the experimental "vaccine". As an alumnus of the University it's difficult to say it, but graduates should stop making donations until there is total respect for medical choice when it comes to personal health decisions. I have. Not a penny any more.

From the U of T website: "Recently, U of T reinstated the vaccination requirement for students and employees living in University residences.

Aug

Britain's Tavistock clinic supporting "gender fluidity" for children closes down: Canada must do the same

Britain's Tavistock "gender affirming" clinic for children has been shut down. Canada must also stop providing these dangerous services that can seriously damage the lives of children. It was Britain’s National Health Service that closed the clinic which did sex change surgery on children and administered puberty blockers.

It's time for clinics like this to stop abusing children with these life-threatening and life-altering "medical health" procedures. These are innoncent children.

Aug

Municipal Election 2022: vote for trustees who will defend parental rights and choice in education

In Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories, people will elect their local government this year. In Ontario, the vote takes place on October 24. Mayors, councillors and school board, both Catholic and public, trustees will be elected.

Generally the federal and provincial elections are taken somewhat more seriously by voters because they deal with national and provincial issues. There is much more media coverage.