Day urges more politicians to speak out against secret airport detentions
In a tweet, Day noted only Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has voiced any form of discomfort with the detentions, that have happened in at least Calgary and Toronto.
Matt Gurney: If Trudeau actually has a vaccine strategy now would be a good time to share it
Let’s start by acknowledging something that may seem unlikely, even impossible, today: it’s still possible that the federal government’s vaccine procurement strategy is going to work out just fine.
Adam: Now’s the time for Canadians to debate whether we even need a governor general
The United Kingdom just left the European Union because it wanted to exercise its right as a sovereign nation. Surely Canada can follow the same principle and leave the monarchy behind.
Rantz: Seattle Public Schools teaching radical BLM, anti-police lessons to K-5 students
Seattle Public Schools will spend the week promoting Black Lives Matter lesson plans to students. Teachers have the green light to editorialize the content to their captive students.
Educators are told that no matter their student’s age, “they’re not too young to talk about race.” In fact, “silence about race reinforces racism.” They’re even warned that “treating everyone the same may be unintentionally oppressive.”
Tragic First-Person Accounts of the Effects of COVID-19 School Closures on Children
For reasons unknown, there are still raging debates over whether or not to reopen schools. Simultaneously, schools in states like Georgia and Florida have been open since the fall and managed to keep the children whose parents want them to attend school in person open most of the time. Where they have not been prohibited, private schools opened nationwide. Multiple studies in the U.S. have shown that transmission of COVID-19 is minimal in the school setting, supported by data across the globe.
Bill requiring sex education to begin with kindergarten to be filed in Illinois Legislature
If passed into law, the Responsible Education for Adolescent and Children’s Health, or REACH Act would start sex ed in kindergarten through second grade with lessons on personal safety and respecting others. Grades 3-5 would cover anatomy, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Grades 6-12 would build upon that and include benefits of abstinence, birth control and prevention of STDs.
