The Thunder Bay Catholic District School will fly the Pride flag in June.
In a statement Wednesday, board officials confirm that they, along with Thunder Pride, are working on plans for events throughout the month that will maintain COVID-19 safety precautions.
The decision is being met with applause by both Thunder Pride and the Rainbow Collective of Thunder Bay.
“We’re looking forward to working with the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board for this upcoming pride month,” noted Pride Chair Ashley Moreau. “We’re thrilled to be working in partnership with the schools GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) groups and look forward to providing PD and workshops within the Board environment.”
Parents push for construction to begin on stalled school playground in Junction Triangle
Toronto parents who have raised over $300,000 for a new school yard used by two elementary schools are pushing for construction on the stalled project to begin again now that students are learning remotely and the yard is empty.
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Posted: May 10, 2021 8:19 PM ET | Last Updated: May 11
Neighbourhood parents have been advocating for a school yard upgrade in the Junction Triangle for nearly a decade. They crowdfunded to help pay for it, but so far, only the artificial turf field portion, shown here, is finished. Parents say the project has been plagued by delays.(Patrick Morrell/CBC)
Catholic school boards across Ontario are wrestling with whether to fly the Pride flag next month. Photo by Brianna Amick / Pexels
Whose law gets to reign in a publicly funded school system that caters to one religion in an increasingly diverse society?
That’s a question one of the largest publicly funded Catholic school authorities in the world, the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), wrestled with last week before voting to raise the rainbow Pride flag over each of its almost 200 schools next month in support of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
It was a significant move that was a long time coming, with one former student trustee noting they had pushed the TCDSB to adopt policies supportive of its 2SLGBTQ+ students a decade earlier.
05/09/2021 at 10:15 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Pete Baklinski, LifeSite News, May 7, 2021
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The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) voted last night to declare June “Pride Month” and to fly the homosexual rainbow “Pride” flag at all schools within the board for the entire month of June in defiance of Catholic moral teaching that warns against the spiritual dangers of homosexual behavior and in defiance of the local Archbishop’s directives on the matter.
“With this vote, the TCDSB stepped into apostasy. It is no longer Catholic,” Jack Fonseca of Canada’s pro-life and pro-family organization Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews.
Last Updated Friday, May 7, 2021 9:02AM EDT Catholic schools in Toronto will raise the Pride flag next month for the first time ever. In a TCDSB virtual board meeting on Thursday evening, the board voted in favour of proclaiming Pride Month every June and raising the flag at the Board office and at all TCDSB schools. “We recognize that this is an important step required to demonstrate the TCDSB’s ongoing commitment to fostering inclusive environments that are safe and welcoming places for 2SLGBTQ+ students and staff, TCDSB Chair Joe Martino and Director Brendan Browne said in a statement Friday morning.