Controversy in Alberta over the provincial government's decision to withdraw funding and accreditation from a private Christian school association that oversaw about a third of the province's home-schooled children offers a chance to cast a little light on the home schooling movement and its goals.

For while all sorts of parents home school their children for all sorts of reasons, the majority of the growing number of North American home schoolers are members of the Christian right, and their movement is driven by religious fundamentalist leaders with an agenda for curriculum, philosophy, and, ultimately, societal change that extends beyond their circle of co-religionists.

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We need to talk about bad cops.

I don't mean the ones who kill. We need to talk about them too, but thanks to the efforts of activists, especially Black Lives Matter, a conversation is emerging about holding the worst of the worst accountable.

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In an incredibly troubling development on the Internet privacy front, this morning the RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson was quoted as saying that police require access to Internet subscriber information -- without a warrant -- in order to keep Canadians safe.