OTTAWA, Ontario, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canada Family Action (CFA) has launched a nation-wide citizen action campaign to demand tougher laws to protect children, deter pedophiles and achieve justice for victims of internet child sex crimes. “Canada won 14 gold medals at the Olympics, but CFA wants our country to be on top of the podium as a global winner for protecting kids from pedophiles,” says Brian Rushfeldt, CFA Executive Director. “Right now, Canada wouldn’t even make the qualifying round.”
Charges for distribution and production of child sex images increased 800% between 1998 and 2003 in Canada, and the number of internet child sex images quadrupled, according to a June 2009 report by the Ombudsman for Victims of Crime. Most of those images are of children between the ages of three and eight.
www.HamiltonMountainNews.com. Tricia Cooper says she removed her two children from the public school system because she could see increasing infringement on her parental rights. As a family with strong religious beliefs, Cooper wanted to take her daughters out of an environment she feels teaches her something contrary to what she believes. “My child should not be taught in junior kindergarten that a woman can love a woman or a woman can be a man,” the Hamilton resident told the Mountain News. [Keep reading this article here.]
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski, ADELAIDE, South Australia, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The South Australian Non-Government Schools Registration Board has published a new education policy that states it requires the ''teaching of science as an empirical discipline, focusing on inquiry, hypothesis, investigation, experimentation, observation and evidential analysis.'' It then goes on to state that it "does not accept as satisfactory a science curriculum in a non-government school which is based on, espouses or reflects the literal interpretation of a religious text in its treatment of either creationism or intelligent design.''
By Patrick B. Craine, MONTREAL, Quebec, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Quebec Court of Appeal has rejected the appeal of the Drummondville family who sought exemptions for their children from the province's compulsory course in relativism, 'Ethics and Religious Culture' (ERC). According to Justice Yves-Marie Morissette, their appeal is “doomed to failure.”
Check out the latest posting on EFC's Activate blog by Don Hutchinson about comments by Canada's Justice Minister about combatting child pornography. It includes a promise to reintrodce Bill C-58 (An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service) which died as a result of Parliament being prorogued. Click here for the article.
