Everyday For Life Canada: January 2023

Lgbtq committee pushes for radical change to TCDSB's Religious program: no need to consult parents

Today, a You Tube recording was posted about the work of the 2slgbtq+ Advisory Committee at the Toronto Catholic District School Board. They want to change what is taught in the Religion program, from Grades1-8, about the person, family and marriage. What they are doing is bound to spread to all separate boards across the province.

The script accompanying the video states:

The 2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee of the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) had a public meeting on January 24, 2023. Members were discussing whether the TCDSB should continue to use the Fully Alive textbook in its schools. The TCDSB's Human Rights and Equity Advisor, Lavinia Latham, spoke on the issue.

Jan

The forensic Way of the Cross: a medidation like no other

As we approach Lent for 2023, we re-post this 2019 entry which has been one of our most read. It's comforting to know that the Truth is good news that stays good news. Here's the entry.

Reading The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Forensic Inquiry by Dr. Frederick Zugibe is truly an incredible factual and spiritual experience. The author was chief medical examiner and forensic pathologist for 35 years in Rockland, Pomona, NY.

Jan

Where has the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario gone?

Where has the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario gone? At a time when we need the shepherds to speak up, they are missing in action. They are silent. There are absent from the public square.

Just over a week ago, publisher Pearson Canada was pressured to stop printing the books used for the Religious Education program, called Fully Alive, for Grades 1-8 in Ontario's Catholic schools. The series of texts cover from a Catholic view such topics as marriage, family and human sexuality.

Jan

The Somewheres and Anywheres: Canada's new political reality

Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper published an interesting book in 2018 called, Right Here, Right Now. The book's subtitle reveals the theme: it's about politics and leadership in a time of disruption. That was five years ago before we had Covid-19 lock-downs, vaccine passports and the invoking of martial law on truckers who protested peacefully in Ottawa against forced vaccination. They merely wanted to keep their jobs and protect their medical freedom to choose.

Jan

Another secular step to erode the Catholic identity of Ontario separate schools

If Catholic parents who pay taxes to support separate schools had any doubts that secularism has almost eroded their Catholic identity, we got more evidence this week from the Toronto Catholic District School Board. The anti-Catholic work was done by a board committee: the TCDSB's 2slgbtq+ Advisory Committee.

Here’s what the Committee wants director Brendan Browne and the board of trustees to do.

Jan

Ontario school boards may now consider parental concerns to be "hate" speech

Want to know how much Ontario school boards respect parental rights? Read the recent Open Letter by the Waterloo Region District School Board to concerned parents. In short, not much. Parental concerns which question the validity of what boards are doing may be called, "Hate, racism and xenophobia" and "not 'opinions' that should be gathered through consultation."

The board defends the need to collect sexual information about students. Just accept it.

Jan

Stolen land? Are students, parents and staff at the OCDSB aware of this? Are Canadians?

We don't think that teachers, parents and students who attend or work at any school run by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, OCDSB, have any clue that the administrative buildings are sitting on "unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation." But then, isn't all of Canada Indigenous territory? According to the Board statement, "Canada’s Constitution, unceded territory means the Aboriginal Title to the area has not been surrendered by an Indigenous nation or a

Jan

Canada today: Dr. Shoemaker loses medical license for speaking out

Dr. Chris Shoemaker has strongly spoken out against the covid-19 vaccine, and for speaking his mind and telling the truth, he has lost his medical license. This is the worst punishment that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) could impose. The college has weaponized the Health Professions Act and decided that Dr. Shoemaker's conduct can be harmful and dangerous to the profession and patients. When did truth and doing science become dangerous to patient health?

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Jan

Pfizer CE0 Albert Bourla silent as reporters ask unscripted, tough questions at the WEF

This is first part of a long statement made by Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla on testing positive for Covisd-19, on August 15, 2022:

I would like to inform the public that I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am grateful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and I am feeling well while experiencing very mild symptoms.

Jan

The first amendment is alive and well in the Diocese of De Moines

The American Catholic Diocese of Des Moines has issued a clear policy on gender identity: students in schools and parishioners are to use locker and washrooms based on their biological sex. There is no use of preferred pronouns. The policy is consistent with Catholic teaching. It's the kind of policy that every Catholic parish and school ought to follow. Gender and gender identity aren't Catholic teaching. The first amendment is alive and well in the Diocese of De Moines.