School to Give Credits for Anti-Abortion Vigils

Critics say Manitoba should cut funding to Winnipeg's Christ the King School if it's going to engage in political activism.

A Catholic school in Winnipeg will give students credits if they attend vigils outside an abortion clinic, prompting criticisms that schools that receive public funding shouldn't be allowed to use that money to political ends. Christ the King School is a private Catholic school that has students in kindergarten through Grade 8. It also receives half of its funding from the provincial government. So the decision by the school's principal to allow anti-abortion vigils to count toward the students' community service requirements has at least one former school board trustee calling for the province to pull its funding from Christ the King on the grounds that school resources shouldn't be used to advance such an overtly political agenda.