Hundreds of protestors rallied near schools in Ottawa’s west end on Friday to protest against gender ideology being taught to children, while hundreds of LGBT supporters gathered to counter-protest the group. The Ottawa Police Service shut down Broadview Avenue for the “Education over Indoctrination” rally, which was organized in part by B.C. resident Chris Elston, who…

A protest and counterprotest on the issue of transgender students using the girls’ washroom amassed some 80 people outside Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alta., on May 17. “A fight broke out between several individuals of opposing views,” Calgary Police Service spokesperson Brittany Klassen told The Epoch Times via email. She said two people…

Grade 11 student Josh Alexander of Renfrew, Ont., has received international attention for an ongoing struggle with his Catholic school board over his belief that God made only two genders. His parents, who are teachers in a separate board, have recently been put on leave and are under investigation. They suspect it’s because of the…

News Analysis Public funding means the government, not the church or the faith, pulls the ideological strings in Ontario’s Catholic school system, some stakeholders say. And this particularly affects how the schools handle matters of gender and sexuality. It’s a cautionary tale to any institution assured it will remain independent when accepting government funding, says…

Commentary When you went to elementary school, did your teacher ever suggest—even in his or her most sinister dream—that the class all go to a strip club to sample a bit of salacious sexual culture? Never. It would never have been imagined. How about inviting a drag queen to the school for story-time? Nope. And…

Josh Alexander, 17, has initiated a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario saying his Catholic school unlawfully discriminated against him for his religious belief that there are only two genders. He has been shut out of St. Joseph’s in Renfrew, Ont., for most of the school year on the grounds that his presence…

MEP Christine Anderson has expressed her support for a 16-year-old Canadian who has been barred from attending his Catholic high school because he says he won’t stop expressing his belief that God made only two, immutable genders. “Josh Alexander is only 16 [years] … old and already he’s got it figured out: Freedom, democracy and…

Commentary Early in February, The Epoch Times reported on a story about Josh Alexander, a 16-year-old student who was arrested at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario. Reports said that following a suspension in November, Josh had tried to attend class while he was under an exclusion order issued by the principal. The…

Josh Alexander, 16, was arrested for attending St. Joseph’s High School in Renfrew, Ont., on Monday. The principal had recently banned him from school grounds because he said he would continue to express his belief that God created only two genders. “They excluded me for no reason other than religious discrimination,” Alexander told The Epoch…

Josh Alexander, 16, is not allowed to attend school for the rest of the year after saying he would continue to express his belief that God created only two genders. The school considers his presence “detrimental to the physical and mental well-being” of transgender students. He told St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario,…