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> New Tory Leader Jason Kenney says parents should be notified if their children join a gay-straight alliance at school and the NDP government should take a less confrontational approach with hold-out schools on LGBTQ issues.
> In an editorial board with Postmedia in Calgary on Tuesday, Kenney - who won the Progressive Conservative leadership just over a week ago - reiterated that if he becomes premier he will not repeal Bill 10, legislation passed in 2015 under the former PC government that mandates school boards allow gay-straight alliances where they are requested by students.
> Gordon Dirks, who was PC education minister when Bill 10 was passed, said at the time that the law did not require parental notification if a student started or joined a GSA. The law also requires school boards - but not private schools - to create an inclusive environment for students and staff, and adopt a code of conduct that forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
> NDP Education Minister David Eggen last week issued a ministerial order telling two Edmonton-based Baptist Schools to comply with the School Act, which states students must be allowed to form a gay-straight alliance if they request one.
> The schools have said they will not allow GSAs or submit a policy but that they are compliant with the law because they have no LGBTQ students or requests for GSAs.
> Kenney said the NDP government shouldn't be taking an "Adversarial or aggressive approach" to the dispute with the two schools and should be trying to seek a "Sensitive compromise that can ensure the safety of students and respect parental authority as well."
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In Sri Lanka, a former British colony, which has been facing a certain bankruptcy and a deepening financial and humanitarian crisis, an inept, inefficient President leading a highly corrupt regime, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been bestowed with the honorary title of “Sri Lankadheeshwara Padma Vibhushana” by the Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Dharma Maha Sangha Sabha invoking the blessings of the Maha Sangha. This Award supposedly symbolized the need of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s leadership for the motherland as well as considering the unblemished (my foot!)past and present deeds of the President. Ven. Hemaratna Thera, delivering the sermon, said: “President, your journey is on the right path which is in line with ‘Saubhagyaye Dekma’ (Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour) policy statement. If it succeeds, the next generation will be able to experience the results’.
Gotabaya thanks to a set of cronies among the Maha Sangha who gave him a lifeline, expectedly in gratitude started stirring the Sinhala Supremacist pot in the process. He reminded about the condition of the Buddhist sites like Kuragala, Muhudu Maha Vihara and Deeghawap and pledged to guard and nurture the Buddhist philosophy on this nation. “We must always protect the Sinhala culture and heritage that has a history of thousands of years. Therefore, the government will continue to provide patronage to protect our values, traditions and customs.” Mahinda’s Tirupathi visits and Gota – Gnanakka links shows where their loyalties lie and their hypocritical Buddhist leadership roles! The 69m lakhs Sinhala Buddhist electorate which voted him will bear witness to his ‘services’ to their lot.
Social media was agog with many posts which questioned the wisdom behind this absurd Award to a ruler whose regime, the electorate almost unequivocally calls as the ‘most inept, inefficient and corrupt’ in Post-Independence history. This widely criticised award comes at a time when his government is in disarray and being blamed for putting Sri Lanka in a deepening financial and humanitarian crisis with fears it could go bankrupt in 2022 as inflation rises to record levels, food prices rocket and its coffers run dry. One of the most pressing problems for Sri Lanka is its huge foreign debt burden. In the next 12 months, in the government and private sector, Sri Lanka will be required to repay an estimated $7.3bn in domestic and foreign loans. Food and gas shortages have led to queues and public desperation have led to hootin
... keep reading on reddit ➡It's been over a decade since the Alberta Liberal Party was a viable option, and we all know the other two parties in the province represent extremes (though, to be fair, Notley moved closer to the centre after she was elected). The Alberta Party was founded as the (supposedly) party of common sense, but since there are almost no political insiders in the party, it has no idea how to run a campaign, attract candidates, etc. So what's an Albertan supposed to do in the voting booth?
As a fan of Nenshi's even-handed approach, I think he'd make a great leader for a centre-left Alberta Party. He's organized, he can rally the troops and he would add much needed gravitas to a party that's really been perceived as nothing but an outlier. The AP under him wouldn't carry the baggage of the Liberal Party and could start fresh, wooing young people who hate Kenney and offering an alternative for Albertans who just can't bring themselves to vote NDP.
Of course, I have no idea what Nenshi's plans are after retirement - he could very well have had his fill of assholes throwing rocks at him and want to get out of politics altogether. But something tells me that's not the case. What say you, Reddit?
