Quebec orders religious schools to teach sex ed.Some evangelical Christian schools in a Canadian province Noun 1. Canadian province - Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes province, state - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south" are facing closure for failing to teach sex education and evolution. Quebec's ministry of education announced in late October that a number of evangelical schools are in violation of the province's law requiring adequate education for school children between ages six and 16. The Ottawa Citizen The Ottawa Citizen (established 1845) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by CanWest Global in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the paper has a circulation of 141,540. reported that the education ministry could close the evangelical schools if it decided that they would not comply with the sex education and evolution mandates. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Religion News Service, government officials will work with the evangelical schools to determine whether they can meet Quebec's standards. Alan Buchanan Alan Buchanan BA, MA, is a Canadian university administrator and former politician from Prince Edward Island. A native of the rural farming hamlet of Belfast in southeastern Queens County, Buchanan is a graduate of the University of Prince Edward Island and Queen's , an evangelical school supporter, defended the curriculum, telling The Ottawa Citizen that, "We offer a curriculum based on a Christian world view rather than humanistic world view." |
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