Tag Archives: Alberta Human Rights Commission

Weekly Update: 18-Dec-2021 to 7-Jan-2022

by | January 8, 2022

This week’s Update is extra large, because I took the last two weeks off (where the Updates would have fallen on Christmas day, and New Year’s day).

Human Rights Tribunal Fines Alberta Private School for Preventing Students from Praying

by | June 28, 2015

I don’t know how I missed the April story about a private school in Alberta, Webber Academy, ordered to pay $26,000 in damages to two students who they prevented from praying in their school. According to the parents of the two students, upon enrollment, they explicitly asked if it would be okay for their children… Read more »

Teen and Mother File Complaint with Human Rights Commission Over Abstinence Based Sex Ed Course

by | July 13, 2014

Alberta was in the news recently when a doctor refused to prescribe birth control pills to her patients and now one of Alberta’s schools, McNally High School, is in the news for outsourcing their Career and Life Management course to Pregnancy Care Centre, a group linked to an American anti-abortion group, Care-Net. You can guess what type… Read more »