THE CANADIAN TIMES

Ontario Court of Appeal greenlights brothels, sweeps aside many of Canada’s anti-prostitution laws

TORONTO – The Court of Appeal for Ontario has swept aside some of the country’s anti-prostitution laws saying they place unconstitutional restrictions on prostitutes’ ability to protect themselves.

The landmark decision means sex workers will be able to hire drivers, bodyguards and support staff and work indoors in organized brothels or “bawdy houses,” while “exploitation” by pimps remains illegal.

However, openly soliciting customers on the street remains prohibited with the judges deeming that “a reasonable limit on the right to freedom of expression.”

The province’s highest court suspended the immediate implementation of striking the bawdy house law for a year to allow the government an opportunity to amend the Criminal Code.

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When the state raises your kids, you don't

Strip-searching a father because his four-year-old sketched a toy gun at school paints a perfect picture of progressive public education: absurd yet sinister.

On the Keystone Kops side, if police took the girl's now-vanished doodle of her father fighting monsters and bad guys seriously, why not search his home for villains, or werewolves, before a gun? And why handcuff Jesse Sansone then strip-search him, including making him lift his personal bits? Don't cops know a gun won't fit down there? Did they also check his armpit for a tank, or his ear for a sword?

On the Big Nurse side, the police arrested Sansone for illegal possession of a firearm without any credible evidence he even had a gun, let alone illegally. They "walked through" his home without a warrant. Social services grabbed his three eldest children and interrogated his pregnant wife. And they are unrepentant.
Waterloo Regional School district superintendant Gregg Bereznick told QMI Agency's Kris Sims: "We do work hand-in-hand with these families because we co-parent, so we hope that we could move forward."

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Judges to release landmark prostitution ruling

TORONTO -- A landmark court ruling comes down Monday that could drastically alter prostitution laws in Ontario and potentially Canada.

A five-judge panel on the Ontario Court of Appeal will announce its decision to either uphold or reverse a September 2010 ruling by Ontario Superior Court Judge Susan Himel that struck down three prostitution laws in the Criminal Code, declaring them unconstitutional because they put the safety of sex workers at risk.

Himel struck down the laws that criminalize pimping, operating a bawdy house and communicating for the purposes of prostitution, basing her decision on a conclusion that the laws, while generally seen as there for the protection of sex workers, actually endanger them by forcing them to ply their trade in insecure locations, such as the street, and engage in cash-for-sex transactions in risky and isolated places.

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Wrongfully arrested father gets no apologies

KITCHENER, ONT. - The Sansone family is not getting any apologies after they were put through hell by school officials, social workers and police last week.

And, the smoking gun -- a child's drawing that triggered the whole thing -- will never be seen.

"I am really sorry that the family is as upset as they are, but we followed proper standards and procedures," said Alison Scott, executive director of Family and Child Services for the Waterloo Region.

She told QMI Agency if the same situation happened again tomorrow, her organization would do the exact same thing over again.

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What the #!%*? Home-school protest rises in Alberta over updated Education Act

In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about a complicated issue. Today: Sarah Boesveld on the uproar among Alberta homeschooling parents who oppose Bill 2, the provincial government’s updated Education Act, which could get third reading as early as Wednesday night:

Q: So, why are homeschooler parents worried?

A: Many feel it amounts to “social engineering” on homeschooled students, and parents worry they’ll face complaints that they’re not necessarily teaching their children according to what’s in the human rights codes. Section 16 of the act (under the heading ‘Diversity’) says all academic materials must “honour and respect the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta Human Rights Act,” which is a new provision. Homeschooler parents fear those lines could invite human rights complaints if somebody doesn’t like what they’re teaching. The most common example has been religious groups that could fear a complaint for teaching that homosexuality is a sin.

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Showdown: Ontario gvmt tells Catholic schools gay clubs policy is non-negotiable

TORONTO, Ontario, January 31, 2012 (lifesitenews.com) – After Ontario’s Catholic trustees took a strong stand against homosexual activism in a new anti-bullying plan last week, Ontario’s government has slammed the plan for failing to allow for single-issue clubs for homosexual students.

"We’ve been absolutely crystal clear that we expect students to participate in groups and have the issues important to them talked about," Education Minister Laurel Broten told the Catholic Register’s Deborah Gyapong on Monday.

In a Jan. 25th document titled Respecting Differences, the Ontario Catholic School Trustees Association (OCSTA) established a framework for student-led clubs to combat bullying related to racism, gender, disability, and sexual orientation.

Graham James sentenced to two years in prison

Disgraced junior hockey coach Graham James has been sentenced to two years behind bars for two counts of sexual assault, including one in which the victim was former NHL star Theoren Fleury.

The sentence, handed down Tuesday in Winnipeg, was quickly dismissed as “a travesty” by another of James victims.

A thin, ashen James, 59, showed little emotion as he was led away by sheriff’s officers at the Winnipeg court.

He had pleaded guilty in December to sexually assaulting Fleury and Todd Holt, Fleury’s younger cousin, while coaching them in junior hockey during the 1980s and early ’90s. Charges against James involving a third player, Greg Gilhooly, were stayed.

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Ontario’s Catholic leaders take strong stand against homosexual activism in schools

TORONTO, Ontario, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario’s Catholic leaders are taking a strong stand against homosexual activism in the province’s Catholic schools.

In a long-awaited framework for anti-bullying clubs in the schools, they insist that the clubs remain faithful to Catholic teaching, be overseen by a staff advisor who knows and believes the Church’s teaching, and that the clubs cannot engage in activism against Catholic teaching.

The Catholic schools’ stand could set up a confrontation with Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government.

Parents and pro-family activists have been concerned for months that the clubs would simply be gay-straight alliances under a Catholic name. But the framework document, sent to school boards by the Ontario Catholic School Trustees Association (OCSTA) this week, insists GSAs are "not acceptable in Catholic schools."

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Kelly McParland: The Amazing Daltoni reveals Ontario’s new non-Drummond plan for debt reduction

Ontarians are starting to get a picture of the Liberal government’s strategy for reducing the huge deficit it ran up in its first eight years in office.

It turns out it has little if anything to do with the 362 recommendations offered up in the year-long analysis it commissioned from economist Don Drummond. That report — much anticipated and released to great fanfare by members of the media who had been fooled into believing the government actually planned to treat it seriously — has evidently been assigned to some remote shelf deep in the dusty underground storage area used to keep MPs from being infected by good ideas. Instead, Premier Dalton McGuinty and his capable financial henchman in chief, who goes by the alias Dwight Duncan, have concocted their own game plan.

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Confusing Grade Three Children with Six Gender Teaching is Wrong

“Would you teach your eight-year-old child, six genders and to question his or her gender? "

Dr. Charles McVety
President,  Institute for Canadian Values

Confusing Grade Three Children with Six Gender Teaching is Wrong

The Newly proposed, Ontario curriculum, which teaches six genders (male, female, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirited and inter-sexed) is being taught by teaches in Toronto schools and is confusing to our children. Our precious, impressionable little boys and girls, as young as eight years old, are forced to “role play opposite (gender) roles” and even search images of Pride Week.  The curriculum is mandatory without parental notice or option to withdraw their children.

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