The University of Ottawa is getting provincial money to help schools fight discrimination, Education Minister Mitzie Hunter announced Monday. Catholic schools have resisted gay-straight alliances as anti-bullying tools, resisted the modern sex-education curriculum, resisted hiring teachers whose lifestyles don’t pass Catholic muster. A decade ago, then Progressive Conservative leader John Tory said hey, if we fund Catholic schools we should fund Jewish and Muslim ones, too. The most popular, using the online voting system the finance ministry offered: getting rid of separate Catholic schools. Of course we can do small things in schools to fight discrimination, both overt and subtle, without solving everything.

Source: National Post November 06, 2017 20:26 UTC