LGBTQ Policy

• New Brunswick’s Pride in Education day in May mobilized opposition to Policy 713

  Before New Brunswick decided to change its policy on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, it received a deluge of communications critical of the guidelines.

  Canada

  Oct 26, 2023
  
• N.B. parents worry of bullying at school because of changes to gender identity policy

  Some families of students heading back to school in New Brunswick are worried about bullying because of the province's changes to the policy on gender identity in schools.

  Canada

  Sep 5, 2023
  
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• N.B. makes minor ‘clarifications’ to Policy 713 after being told it violated the Charter

  New Brunswick's provincial government is making minor 'clarifications' to Policy 713, a week after the province's youth advocate found it violates the Charter rights of children.

  Canada

  Aug 23, 2023
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• New Brunswick Education Department received no complaints about pronouns kept secret

  A freedom of information request shows no parents complained to the province's Education Department that they had been left in the dark about their children's preferred pronouns.

  Canada

  Aug 1, 2023
• Federal minister LeBlanc calls changes to N.B.’s LGBTQ school policy a ‘mistake’

  Infrastructure Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters today in Fredericton that the changes to Policy 713 complicate things for young people and their families.

  Politics

  Jun 28, 2023
• Another N.B. cabinet minister resigns from Blaine Higgs government

  Another New Brunswick cabinet minister has resigned amid calls for a leadership review of Premier Blaine Higgs, who has been embroiled in controversy over changes to Policy 713.

  Politics

  Jun 23, 2023
• New Brunswick child advocate offers critique of province’s school LGBTQ policy

  New Brunswick's youth and child advocate says the province's rationale for a review of its sexual orientation policy in schools was incoherent.

  Canada

  Jun 12, 2023
• N.B. youth advocate denounces province’s decision to review LGBTQ school policy

  Kelly Lamrock says the government has no benchmarks with which to evaluate the success or failure of the policy, and there are no written complaints from teachers or students.

  Canada

  May 16, 2023
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• Chilliwack DPAC chair allegedly threatened amid heated LGBTQ policy debate

  "Some of the e-mails were pretty horrendous, and a lot of hate speech against LGBT families."

  Education

  Jan 6, 2018
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• Edmonton Catholic School Board elects new chair, vice chair

  Edmonton Catholic School trustees voted in Laura Thibert and Marilyn Bergstra as their new board chair and vice chair, respectively, for the 2016-2017 year.

  Education

  Oct 18, 2016