Teachers Leave Them Kids Alone

A Weekly Report on the Canadian Gender Wars - June 10, 2023 Vol 19

Rainbow

By

Shannon B Douglas

In June of 1980 one of the kids who lived on my street introduced me to “We Don’t Need no Education.” It became our anthem and we sang it as nine-year-olds looking forward to summer vacation. It was years before I was old enough to understood that “The Wall,” the double album from Pink Floyd was a postwar story from the view of a neglected child. The tragic figure of the story grew up in a toxic and authoritarian world to become a troubled artist and musician eventually condemned for his speech.

The pillars of gender ideology in Canadian education have been rocked since the beginning of June and this past week sent a powerful message across Canada. It’s time to stand up.

So many important stories need to be told about what has happened in the span of seven days, including the Judicial Review of the Caroline Burjoski incident, where the chair of the Waterloo District School Board accused herof human rights violations for criticizing books that trivialize sex-changes for children in elementary school libraries.

As I covered last week, mass absences from Canadian classrooms on the first day of Pride season happened all across the country only to be reenacted Friday with more plans for absences in the last days of school rumored in the Muslim Canadian Community.

Blaine Higgs, and education minister Hogan in New Brunswick amended education policy 713 to much criticism, and groups across Canada who were tuned in to planned June 9th protests in Ottawa, planned actions in their communites both overt and silent.

Billboard Chris and Josh Alexander rallied and estimated 1,000 people for, and against, at the largest protest over gender ideology in Canadian history. The standoff and wind-down took place in an unusual location in a tony neighbourhood of Ottawa. Numerous contributors to the the turn in public awareness, including many who ran for school trustee in last fall’s elections across Ontario, came to Ottawa to join the protest as well as to break bread together and talk about where this whole movement is going.

Elton Robinson from Windsor, a contributor to Woke Watch Canada, organized action with others in his community the same day and I’ll be unpacking the impacts and talking to regional leaders about their actions in the coming days.

I’ll cover off the Judicial review of the Burjoski v. Waterloo School Board affair as the decision is announced, but hearing about the hearing last week was just another sign of the momentum building against the destructive and toxic ideology that has taken over schools all across the country.

On Thursday a Tory insider from New Brunswick reached out to me via Direct Message with a scoop on the backroom deals happening to avoid a no-confidence vote over amendments to education policy 713, and details of how the election call was averted.

It’s possible my informant reached out because I was interviewed by reporter Barbara Simpson from the Telegraph-Journal of New Brunswick, who gave fair to good coverage of the issue.

It seems that there were several Conservative Cabinet Ministers who were not going to vote for the bill and the showdown resulted in whipping and ultimatums for MLAs who were threaten to depart from the party line.

My source shared:

The non-confidence vote could also lead to the caucus replacing the leader rather than an election but important to note 21/29 MLA's supported the Premier on this. Also, the edict was if they supported a non-confidence vote the Premier would ask the lieutenant governor for an election and defiant MLA's could not run under PC banner next election.

While the insider and I were on the phone, Pierre Barns from BC walked into my kitchen, coffee-in-hand, having just arrived from BC. Later on Thursday we presented to a local audience on the issues of Gender Ideology in schools which was live-streamed by the RAIR Foundation out of the US.

Pierre is a BC dad who has created the most comprehensive tools in Canada to combat schools and boards on the issue of age-innapropriate books in school libraries across the country. You can find his resources at www.exposingsogi123.com . The amount of information he has indexed and compiled is astounding and if you’re a parent wants to learn more check out his tour of the site he shared in the video link below.

Our presentation can be viewed by clicking the picture. We had 550 people viewing the live even and I hope it’s a useful comprehensive document on how these things became entrenched in Canadian Schools, and just what it means when children are exposed to gender ideology and face sexualization at younger and younger ages in school. (presentation starts at about 16 minutes)

The fallout and the impact from the protest itself will take some time to digest. I have mixed feelings about protests themselves, but they provide an incredible opportunity for networking, trust-building and connecting with people in real life who we perhaps have only met on Twitter or on zooms.

Around the table on Thursday and Friday night, and convening from parts aflung at the protest, Michelle Alleva, who detransitioned and is now suing the medical practitioners who stremlined her through gender affirming care without safeguards, the first case of its kind in Canada. Julia Mallot, a trans woman who is against the activists pushing the rainbow doctirines in schools and Cris Bairos-Fernandes joined us from Waterloo; as well, Peter Wallace of Blueprint for Canada joined us at the protest and shared some of the first on-the-scene reports on Friday morning.

Friday night was emotional as we reconvened at the AIr BNB with Chanel Pfhal and others who can’t be named, as we unpacked the events of the day both good and bad.

I’m looking forward to a vacation and some off-grid camping in the coming weeks. Summer is in front of us all and hopefully a time for us to rest, reflect and regroup because the gender wars are just heating up.

I expect I’ll write a few pieces in the coming days about some of the specific events, incliding recaps of Windsor protests and a “Highs and Lows” of the Ottawa protest on June the 9th.

The week ending June 9th, 2023 was the biggest week in the Canadian Gender Wars so far, thank you to everyone who took action.

I’ll leave you with the lyrics from my first real memory of a summer anthem, from when I was nine years old.

“We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone”

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Thanks for reading. Here is last issue in case you missed it - Letters From The Front - The Rainbow Offensive

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