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In Alberta and Saskatchewan, school boards still have the ability to direct schools to recite the Lord's Prayer. Parent and secular activist Luke Fevin argues the rule violates children's rights ...
The debate began in Busby, a hamlet 65 km northwest of Edmonton. In September 2015, the public school received a question about whether it was legal for students to recite the Lord’s Prayer.
The Pembina School Division, which encompasses parts of the province north of Edmonton, decided in 2015 that it would continue to have the Lord’s Prayer recited each morning, however it reversed ...
The practice of reciting the Lord's Prayer will continue for now at some schools in southeastern Alberta. The issue came to a head earlier this month after a complaint from a mother whose son ...
Lord, what a fuss over a prayer. “So plainly simple, natural, and spontaneous,” the Catholic Encyclopedia lauds the Lord’s Prayer, yet, at a mere 57 words (in the original Greek), such a ...
Shocked to find their kids were praying in a public school, two Wetaskiwin parents have successfully lobbied a K-7 school to remove the Lord’s Prayer from the students’ morning routine.
(Nova Scotia MLAs recite a shorter version of the Lord’s Prayer written by a former speaker of that province’s legislature in the 1970s.) But Ontario MPPs are unlikely to stop bowing their ...
he mayor of at least one Durham municipality says the Lord’s Prayer will still be recited before council meetings, despite a Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that could lead the way to abolishing the ...