LGBTQ Policy
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New Brunswick’s Pride in Education day in May mobilized opposition to Policy 713Before 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.CanadaOct 26, 2023
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N.B. parents worry of bullying at school because of changes to gender identity policySome 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.CanadaSep 5, 2023
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N.B. makes minor ‘clarifications’ to Policy 713 after being told it violated the CharterNew 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.CanadaAug 23, 2023
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New Brunswick Education Department received no complaints about pronouns kept secretA 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.CanadaAug 1, 2023
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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.PoliticsJun 28, 2023
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Another N.B. cabinet minister resigns from Blaine Higgs governmentAnother 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.PoliticsJun 23, 2023
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New Brunswick child advocate offers critique of province’s school LGBTQ policyNew Brunswick's youth and child advocate says the province's rationale for a review of its sexual orientation policy in schools was incoherent.CanadaJun 12, 2023
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N.B. youth advocate denounces province’s decision to review LGBTQ school policyKelly 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.CanadaMay 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."EducationJan 6, 2018
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Edmonton Catholic School Board elects new chair, vice chairEdmonton Catholic School trustees voted in Laura Thibert and Marilyn Bergstra as their new board chair and vice chair, respectively, for the 2016-2017 year.EducationOct 18, 2016