Education

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Plan for all-day kindergarten in BC leaves many perplexed

Written by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

On September 1, 2009, British Columbia announced the updated budget would include $151 million for all-day kindergarten for the province’s approximately 40,000 five-year-olds, starting in 2010. The same budget announced a $2.8 billion dollar deficit and tax increases through the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).

The province is framing the move to all-day kindergarten as one that is necessarily beneficial for children. This is also true of other jurisdictions with similar plans, like Ontario, where Premier Dalton McGuinty aims to roll out full-day kindergarten, also starting in 2010.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Parental rights bill causes controversy

Education

A government bill before the Alberta legislature would broaden the right of parents to pull their kids from classroom instruction they find objectionable, CTV News reported.

The province’s School Act already allows parents to remove their children from curricula on sexuality. Bill 44, an amendment to Alberta’s human rights law, extends that right to teachings on sexual orientation and religion.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Courses offer teens a Biblical grounding

Education

“This is, to me, the most Biblically illiterate generation of believers I’ve ever known,” said noted Canadian-born author and preacher Henry Blackaby at a Bible conference last month in Richmond, BC. “We just don’t follow the Scriptures. We’re not immersed in the Scriptures. We’re not immersed in the ways of God and the purposes of God.”

It is a situation that some Christian leaders will be trying to change, at least when it comes to teenagers and young adults, through courses offered this summer.

Christian Influence in Society

What does the Bible say about becoming involved with politics? Is there a reason why Christians should vote or care about an election?

Family Policy Conference, March 11

Join us in Ottawa on March 11 for the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada’s annual Family Policy Conference.

In addition to exploring ways in which families are beleaguered or bolstered by current public policy, the conference will feature presentations by special guests Miriam Grossman, MD, author of You’re Teaching My Child What?, Brian Lee Crowley, PhD, author of Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values, and Wade Horn, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Check Imfcanada.org for more information and registration.

Listing of Pregnancy Care Centres

Pregnancy centres provide loving counselling, practical assistance and a variety of resources to pregnant women. For more information about these services available across Canada, please click here.

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