Keep the Faith—But Not in Our Schools
Queen’s Park in Toronto
Sunday, September 18th, at 1:30 PM
A public rally sponsored by the Canadian Secular Alliance to demand:
—support and protection of students of all sexual orientations in publicly funded schools;
— an end to public funding for Roman Catholic separate schools in Ontario.
Speakers tentatively include:
Leonard Baak
Marilyn Byers
Frank de Jong
Farzana Hassan
Joe Killoran
Elvira Kurt
Nick Mulé
Greg Oliver
Kevin Smith
Justin Trottier.
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One School System Network Conference in Toronto, 28 May 2011
TEAR DOWN THE WALL – ONE SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR ALL
Photo taken Saturday, 28 May 2011, North York Civic Centre, Toronto
Topics
From the Relics of History
Background history of why we have two school systems
Bill Grubb, Civil Rights in Public Education
UN Declares Canada Guilty of Discrimination
UN ruling on the Ontario school system
Renton Patterson, Civil Rights in Public Education
Listen to the Children
The universal rights of children
Homa Arjomand, No Sharia Campaign
When teaching is not enough
Teachers being denied employment at separate schools
Barbara Santamaria, Civil Rights in Public Education
The long and short distances of schooling
The insane policy of forcing children out of their
neighbourhoods to attend school
Richard Thain, Secular Ontario
The Cultural Division
No other religion receives public funds for schools
Justin Trottier, National Executive Director, Centre For
Inquiry Canada
An Inconvenient Truth
The separate school policy on sexual orientation
Andrea Houston, Staff reporter, Xtra!
Shattering the Myth of Separate School Funding
Dismantling the myth that only Catholic taxpayers fund
separate schools
Frank de Jong, Green Party of Ontario
Saving Over a Billion Dollars
The true cost of having two school systems
Greg Oliver, Canadian Secular Alliance
Political Action
What must be done
Malcolm Buchanan, Civil Rights in Public Education
I really wish I could attend but I am in North Bay and have other commitments this weekend. I just want to send you my support in this effort. For what it’s worth I am strongly in favor of scrapping this ridiculous and unfair duplication of infrastructure.
Let’s keep private beliefs and superstition out of our publicly funded education system.
I am unfortunately unable to attend this conference, though I strongly beleive in the cause.
I was wondering if there will be any notes/transcripts from the conference available to the public.
I am also looking for someone to speak at an event in the fall regarding this issue – if you could please let me know who I may contact that would be great.
Thank you and keep up the good work!
Hi – can u email after the conference with a reminder about your request? Right now I am tied up with the conference. BTW, what area of Ontario do you live?
Sheila Ayala
sheila@secularism.net
I hope your event was a tremendous success. I regret I wasn’t able to attend, but would love transcripts if possible. Thank you for all your work. Please keep up the fight.
Morgan
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