Alberta Government Supports Making Sexuality, Evolution Optional
1 mai, 2009
A new bill introduced by the Alberta government proposes mandatory notification of parents when classes will be discussing evolution, sexuality or sexual orientation, as well as allowing the parents to opt their children out of them  En anglais

13th Annual Day of Silence
17 avril, 2009
April 17th, marks the 13th annual Day of Silence, a student-led action to focus attention on the discrimination faced by young people.  En anglais

Youth Speak Up About Homophobia and Transphobia
1 avril, 2009
The First National Climate Survey on Homophobia in Canadian Schools: Phase One Report - March 2009  En anglais

GAY TEENS SURVEYED FEEL UNSAFE IN SCHOOL
12 mai, 2008
Results just released from the first phase of Egale Canada’s National Survey on homophobia and transphobia in Canadian Schools.  En anglais | Dossier PDF (EN)

VIDEO: Egale Canada Launches First National Canadian Survey on Homophobia in Schools
21 janvier, 2008
Video from press conference at Queens Park on December 7, 2007.  En anglais

Are Kids Safe in Our Schools?
10 décembre, 2007
Egale Canada launches a national survey designed to explore the experiences of homophobia and transphobia of students in Canadian Schools.  En anglais | Dossier PDF (EN)

Egale Canada Calls for Zero Tolerance of Homophobic Bullying in our Schools
17 mai, 2007
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms recognizes the rights of all Canadians to be free from discrimination based on sexual orientation. Yet homophobic acts, jokes and insults happen every day while people stand by and do nothing to stop it.  En anglais

Egale Education Webpage
19 février, 2007
A committee of educators and interested parties from across the country working towards making schools safer places for LGBT youth and their teachers.  En anglais

Education Survey Donation Form
15 février, 2007
To gather statistics on the issues facing LGBT youth in schools. Currently, there are no Canadian statistics except for a small study of 77 from 1999 in B.C.  En anglais

Censorship Continues at Surrey School Board
9 mai, 2006
A fairy-tale book about two princes who marry has been rejected for use with kindergarten to Grade 3 students by a committee of the Surrey School Board.  En anglais

Egale opposes Boissoin’s fight against safe schools
29 octobre, 2005
Egale opposes Pastor Stephen Boissoin, former Executive Director of Concerned Christians Canada Inc., in leading what he describes as a “war” against making schools safe for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified (LGBT)...  En anglais

Final victory for bullied student sends message to schools across Canada
26 octobre, 2005
Yesterday the Supreme Court of Canada refused leave to appeal to the North Vancouver School Board in the human rights complaint brought by Azmi Jubran. That means the decision of the B.C. Court of Appeal siding with the harassed youth is final and...  En anglais

Jer’s Vision Inaugural Gala
15 octobre, 2005
Come join us in support of Canada’s First Anti-Discrimination Scholarship for youth. 21-year-old Jeremy Dias won his 3-year Human Right Suit against his high school. He is using the money to start Canada’s First National...  En anglais

Censorship rears its ugly head again in Surrey, B.C.
23 septembre, 2005
This week the Surrey School Board cancelled a planned performance at Elgin Park Secondary School of The Laramie Project, a play about the 1998 hate motivated killing of Matthew Sheppard, a 21-year-old university student in Wyoming.  En anglais

Egale Applauds Conviction of Trans Teen Killers
16 septembre, 2005
On September 13, 2005, two of the three men accused of killing Gwen Araujo were convicted of second degree murder. Gwen was a 17-year-old trans teenager who was brutally murdered in 2002. She was beaten severely - using fists, canned goods and a metal...  En anglais

Positive change at Thunder Bay school board
8 septembre, 2005
Gabriel Picard successfully settled his human rights complaint against the Lakehead District School Board after the Board agreed to take measures to make its schools safer for LGBT students, a move heralded by the Ontario Human Rights Commission and...  En anglais

On International Youth Day, Egale launches Safe Schools Campaign
11 août, 2005
This Friday, August 12 is the United Nation’s International Youth Day. Egale Canada has chosen International Youth Day to officially launch its safe schools petition campaign (see petition below). Egale has circulated the petitions across the...  En anglais

Pétitions
3 août, 2005
Vous pouvez aider à recueillir des signatures pour ces pétitions et les imprimer à partir de ces versions PDF. Ensuite, veuillez SVP envoyer chez Égale les formulaires avec les signatures.  Texte intégral | En anglais

B.C. Court of Appeal Supports Bullied Student
21 avril, 2005
Earlier this month, B.C.’s Court of Appeal sided with a harassed youth in ruling that school boards have a duty to make significant efforts to provide students with a “discrimination-free school environment.” The decision...  En anglais

B.C. Trustees Pass Motion to Protect LGBTQ Students
5 avril, 2005
On April 1, 2005 the B.C. School Trustees AGM debated and passed a motion to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) students and/or those perceived to be LGBT in our public schools. It was brought forward by progressive trustees in...  En anglais

Lakehead District School Board Fails Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students
20 décembre, 2004
After more than a year of efforts to persuade the Lakehead District School Board to properly implement their safe school and anti-harassment policies, a local family and other concerned citizens are asking the public to become aware of the serious...  En anglais

Surrey School Board Fails to Provide Safe Space
15 novembre, 2004
Today the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will begin its three-week hearing into a complaint against the Surrey School Board by local moms Carol Pegura and Kim Forster. The hearing, which takes place at 605 Robson Street, 11th floor, in Vancouver, results...  En anglais

Community Groups Host Forum on Youth Poverty and Migration Issues
30 septembre, 2004
On October 2nd, 2004 youth as well as service providers for youth, advocates and community members will gather in Toronto for “Bent and unBroken” a one-day forum looking at migration and poverty issues affecting the queer, trans...  En anglais

LGBT Young People Deserve Better
12 août, 2004
On today, the U.N. International Day of Youth, Egale Canada wishes to highlight that our country’s youth suffer to a greater degree than most Canadians the effects of homophobia, transphobia, racism and economic barriers.  En anglais

Projet de loi C-20: Loi Modifiant le Code Criminel (Protection des enfants et d’autres personnes vulnérables) et la loi sur la Preuve au Canada
30 octobre, 2003
Le projet de loi C-20 représente la réponse du gouvernement à une série de préoccupations publiques formulées récemment...  Lien

Les jeunes soutiennent, sans hésiter, le mariage pour les couples de même sexe
10 septembre, 2003
Alors que les collèges et les universités du pays entament une nouvelle année, les étudiants, eux, s’engagent dans l’un des plus important débat politique concernant...  Texte intégral | En anglais

Égale comparaîtra ce soir devant le conseil scolaire de Surrey pour appuyer la disponibilité de livres où figurent des familles homoparentales
3 juin, 2003
Le membre du conseil d’administration d’Égale à Vancouver, Stephen Burri, comparaîtra ce soir devant le conseil scolaire de Surrey afin d’appuyer l’approbation de trois livres...  Texte intégral | En anglais

Canadians Urged to Celebrate School’s OUT Day! on June 27th
16 mai, 2002
As a landmark case on education rights and same-sex families heads to the Supreme Court of Canada, the national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered equality rights organisation Egale Canada is proud to support “SCHOOL’S OUT...  En anglais

Minister Allan Rock to Attend Tonight an Egale Award Presentation to Marc Hall
11 avril, 2002
The Hon. Allan Rock, PC, MP will speak tonight at an award presentation to Marc Hall, the gay student denied the right by the Durham Catholic School Board to bring his same-sex partner to his high school prom.  En anglais

Big Brothers Changes Questionnaire to Remove Sexual Orientation Question
5 juillet, 2001
EGALE expressed support today for the decision of Big Brothers of Toronto to remove a question on sexual orientation from its screening questionnaire. EGALE is a national organization that advances equality and justice for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and...  En anglais

Reaching Out
23 février, 1999
The purpose of this report is to examine some of the obstacles facing young lesbians, gays and bisexuals, and to identify concrete means to support lesbian, gay and bisexual youth by reducing some of these barriers.  En anglais

Reaching Out
23 février, 1999
The purpose of this report is to examine some of the obstacles facing young lesbians, gays and bisexuals, and to identify concrete means to support lesbian, gay and bisexual youth by reducing some of these barriers.  En anglais

Fighting Homophobia at School
1 mai, 1997
When Christian Hernandez was 14 and a Grade 9 student at Notre Dame College High School in Niagara Falls, Ont., he screwed up his courage and told his best friend that he was gay. That was his first mistake. 'He told me he couldn’t accept it,'...  En anglais

FLUID: A group for bisexual, bi-curious, pansexual, genderqueer, questioning and other queer youth under 26
When? Wednesdays 6:30-8:30 pm October 15 - December 17 ... Call: Dino @ (416) 924-2100 x 243 ... Email: paoletti@ctys.org and cjdobins@yorku.ca  Lien (en anglais)