www.HamiltonMountainNews.com. Tricia Cooper says she removed her two children from the public school system because she could see increasing infringement on her parental rights. As a family with strong religious beliefs, Cooper wanted to take her daughters out of an environment she feels teaches her something contrary to what she believes. “My child should not be taught in junior kindergarten that a woman can love a woman or a woman can be a man,” the Hamilton resident told the Mountain News. [Keep reading this article here.]

 Read the throne speech and short summary of it on the Globe and Mail website here.

Check out the latest posting on EFC's Activate blog by Don Hutchinson about comments by Canada's Justice Minister about combatting child pornography. It includes a promise to reintrodce Bill C-58 (An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service) which died as a result of Parliament being prorogued. Click here for the article.

Lia's Grade 8 speech about abortion received over 800,000 views. Now she speaks out on euthanasia.

Special to The StarPhoenixFebruary 25, 2010: Re: Don't let ideology undermine pledge on women's health (SP, Feb. 22). As members of Parliament who are deeply concerned about the high rates of maternal and infant mortality in the developing world, we noted your editorial statement that "aid groups have argued for years that real progress (in reducing maternal deaths and complications) can't be made until women are given the education, resources and support to decide for themselves when to get and stay pregnant." While such claims are made by some aid groups such as International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Action Canada for Population and Development, who are pushing for an international "right to abortion," they provide no evidence to back them up. [Keep reading this opinion piece here]