Wednesday, October 14, 2009   
Polygamy case suffers setback
Religious Freedom
The British Columbia government has yet to decide how to respond to a court ruling that quashed polygamy charges against two leaders of the Fundamentalist Mormon community of Bountiful, the Vancouver Sun reported.

Last month, B.C. Supreme Court Judge Sunni Stromberg-Stein threw out the charges laid against Winston Blackmore and James Oler earlier this year. She agreed with them that Wally Oppal, the Attorney-General at the time, had acted improperly by “shopping” for a special prosecutor who would recommend that charges be laid.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009   
Plan for all-day kindergarten in BC leaves many perplexed
Education
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.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009   
Parents ponder appeal of ethics course ruling
Religious Freedom
A Catholic parents’ group in Drummondville, Quebec, is considering whether to appeal a judge’s ruling rejecting their bid to keep their children from being exposed to the government’s new mandatory course on ethics and religious culture, the Montreal Gazette reported.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009   
Signs of depression in preschoolers while teen suicides fourth highest among Western nations
Health
Stressed parents and young lives that are “over-programmed” may be at least part of the reason why researchers have found that close to 15 per cent of Quebec-born preschoolers show signs of feeling depressed, the Montreal Gazette reported.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009   
Couples urged to avoid the cohabitation “trap”
Family
A study by University of Denver psychologist Dr. Scott Stanley has concluded that couples who start living together without first getting married can risk forgoing the chance to marry someone who would make a better life-partner, the Washington Post reported.
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