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Christians would rather move than hear evolution

A report in the Vancouver Sun said provincial officials have threatened the families with legal action, including the potential loss of their children to state control, if they do not abide by the mandatory education curriculum.

Source: WorldNetDaily, August 17, 2007

Jailing Without Trial Rejected in Canada

Supporters of the men hailed the ruling as a victory for civil rights but acknowledged that it did not entirely sweep away the procedures for holding suspects without trial that critics here have called "Canada's Guantanamo North."

Source: The Washington Post (online), February 24, 2007

Court rules boy has dad and 2 moms

Ontario's highest court has given legal parental status to the lesbian partner of a biological mother, essentially giving a young boy three parents.

Toronto Star (online), January 3, 2007

Canadian University Set to Prohibit Club Status For Any Group Opposed to Abortion

A motion debated at the November 21 session of the Carleton University Students' Association (CUSA) council meeting would prohibit any group opposed to abortion from attaining club status at the University.  While aimed at a pro-life group of students seeking club status on campus, the proposed policy may ban Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish and Muslim clubs as well.

Source: Life Site, November 24, 2006

Evangelical schools ordered to teach Darwin

The Quebec Ministry of Education has told unlicensed Christian evangelical schools that they must teach Darwin's theory of evolution and sex education or close their doors after a school board in the Outaouais region complained the provincial curriculum was not being followed.

"Quebec children are legally required to follow the provincial curriculum ... but these evangelical schools teach their own courses on creationism and sexuality that don't follow the Quebec curriculum," said Pierre Daoust, director-general of the Commission Scolaire au Coeur-des-Vallees in Thurso, Que.

Source: National Post (online), October 24, 2006

'How-to-be promiscuous' plan considered by schools

A sexually-explicit guide written in a way that condemns traditional North American values and promotes homosexuality and abortion to young girls learning about sex is being considered for use in public schools, and leaders at a family-values think tank are horrified.

Source: WorldNetDaily, September 19, 2006

Airports set sights on `weird' conduct

How travellers behave at the airport — not simply the items in their tote bags — could soon be a focus of Canada's air security screeners.

Source: Toronto Star (online), September 4, 2006

Kurtz on the Planned Abolition of Marriage in Canada

The first obvious reality is that the past Liberal governments, with the courts, have already caused critical damage to marriage – the advent of so-called same-sex marriage is a major step towards abolishing marriage. A next step will be legalization of polygamy, as the Liberals have already considered. (See http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06011301.html for more on a Liberal government-sponsored study that promotes polygamy as a norm for Canada).

Source: Life Site, February 7, 2005

Liberals to announce handgun ban

Prime Minister Paul Martin will venture into a violence-plagued area of Toronto on Thursday to announce a sweeping ban on handguns, The Canadian Press has learned.

Source: Toronto Star (online), December 7, 2005

Help wanted: Must not be white, male

Able-bodied white men seeking a career in Canada's Department of Public Works had best wait awhile before submitting their resumes – the deputy minister of the federal agency has instructed managers to temporarily hire only visible minorities, women, aboriginals and the disabled.

Sorce: WorldNetDaily, November 19, 2005

Radar to see through walls

Military researchers are developing a high-tech radar system that can see through walls, locating and tracking hidden enemies, hostage-takers or even avalanche victims buried under mounds of snow.

Canadian, British, European and U.S. scientists are racing to perfect the revolutionary 3D technology, which can create images of individuals, detail a room's layout or even detect buried landmines.

Source: GlobeandMail (online), January 26, 2005

Senator offers bill to outlaw spanking

A Liberal Party senator in Canada has introduced a bill to outlaw spanking.

Source: WorldNetDaily, December 7, 2004

U.S. Patriot Act can eye Canucks

The United States is willing to review a British Columbia report that concludes the U.S. Patriot Act has the power to eyeball private information about Canadians, Paul Cellucci, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, said Friday.

Source: Canada CNews, October 29, 2004

Police can use infrared to scan homes for heat, Supreme Court rules

It's legal for police to scan homes using heat-detecting equipment, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

In a unanimous decision Friday, the high court said infrared cameras can be used by authorities without violating the constitutional right to privacy.

The ruling overturns an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that described RCMP infrared aerial surveillance as a technological invasion of privacy.

Source: Breaking Canadian News (online), ~October 29, 2004

Police want you to pay for their wire taps

Canada's police chiefs propose a surcharge of about 25 cents on monthly telephone and Internet bills to cover the cost of tapping into the communications of terrorists and other criminals.

The suggestion is intended to resolve a standoff between police forces and telecommunications companies over who should foot the expense of providing investigators with access to phone calls and e-mail messages

Source: GlobeAndMail, August 15, 2004

Canada Dismantles 'Big Brother' Files

Canada's human resources minister said Monday she was dismantling a huge data bank containing thousands pieces of information on Canadian citizens....

The data bank reportedly contained information on 33 million Canadians, including ethnicity, movements in and out of Canada or from province to province and sensitive data about taxes they paid and their health. The Canadian media immediately dubbed the data bank the "Big Brother files," borrowing a term from George Orwell, who warned in his novel "1984" that the state would have the capacity to spy on every one of its own citizens.

Source: CBS Marketwatch May 29, 2000