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SURREY, British Columbia ,  – The Surrey School Board has  tightened up  its newly minted “Safe and caring schools” policy with what it calls a “statement of values” that “underscores” its commitment to “eliminating discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.” In the amendment to its June “anti-discrimination” policy, the Surrey school district will now “not permit or tolerate any homophobic and/or transphobic behavior such as harassment, intimidation, discrimination or bullying, whether by commission or by failing to act to end such behaviour.” The district justified the new policy this summer, stating that it “recognizes that school community members identifying (either publicly or privately) as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersex, queer or questioning ( LGBTQ ) face a unique set of challenges within schools and communities.” It was only a little more than a decade ago that the Surrey School Board  went to bat  in the cou

OTTAWA, October 8, 2012,  (LifeSiteNews.com)  - In a landmark decision last Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that people who are HIV -positive do not need to tell their sex partners they have the disease, as long as they have low levels of the virus and use a condom during sexual intercourse . The 9-0 ruling says that the “realistic possibility of transmission of HIV is negated” if the infected person has a “low viral load and uses a condom”, superseding a 1998 decision. Under the previous law, HIV-positive people who did not tell partners they had the virus could be charged with aggravated sexual assault , with a maximum penalty is life in jail. According to a Canadian  Press report , Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin , well known for activism on Canadian social issues, questioned prosecutors whether a requirement to disclose the disease to sex partners places too onerous a burden on HIV-positive people in light of medical advances in treatment of the incurable infec