Pollution remains unhealthy around #Calgary due to ongoing wildfires in the mountains.
Climate change is real. The fact that events like this happen almost every. single. year. is frightening. What kind of future are we leaving for today’s children?
The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton. Alberta and British Columbia passed laws that created eugenics programs, in 1928 and 1933 respectively.
2,822 Albertans and over 200 British Columbians were sterilized through these programs. In 1937 Alberta amended its Sexual Sterilization Act to remove the need for informed consent for sterilization.
Supporters of Eugenics made assumptions that Canadian society could be improved by encouraging reproduction among certain groups — particularly Anglo-Saxon Protestants — and discouraging or limiting reproduction of other groups.
And don’t expect things to go well for education soon…
“As President of Red Deer Pro-Life, LaGrange wrote that she “enjoyed listening” to a presentation about the “Back Porch,” one such misleading clinic that is operated by anti-abortion activists”