Editorials

Manitoba school trustee favours tolerance

On December 12, 2006, I voted against a motion to allow for the provision of religious exercise in two schools within the Seine River School Division. It was the same way I have voted on “Petitions for Prayer” motions brought to the School Board on which I serve since the Province introduced the legislation in 1992. As a result of recent media coverage on this issue I have received many inquiries about the issue of prayer in the classroom and why I opposed this motion. The following is what I have been generally providing in response to those inquiries......Read More

One family's fight

By Christine Matejka Minitonas, MB

Dear Editor, My husband and I were very interested in your article concerning religious exercises in public schools. We have a personal interest in this issue as we have spent years challenging our children's administrators, superintendent and school board to make the necessary ethical and legal changes on that front. While we have seen some positive results in some schools in our division, we are still battling the issue in our daughters elementary school where the administration and staff insist on delivering. ......Read More

freedom from religion must also be guaranteed

By Timothy Friesen Reprinted with permission of the Winnipeg Herald

It’s absurd that the Manitoba Human Rights Commission is getting so much flak for trying to remove Christian exercises from Manitoba classrooms. Classrooms are places for academic learning. Young people are required to be there, by law, and graduation is required to move on to virtually any form of higher learning, at college, university, and even in most entry level jobs. Read More