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CPAC Launches New Digital & Multimedia Learning Initiative CPAC Route 338

The Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) today launched CPAC Route 338, an innovative new resource intended to help young Canadians better understand our democracy and inspire engagement in the political process.
Ā āNow more than ever before, we recognize that democracy is precious but fragile, even in mature democracies like Canada,ā said Catherine Cano, President and General Manager of CPAC. āCPAC Route 338 is a vital resource because the earlier we study and learn about our democracy, the better our chance to have a society that is curious, knowledgeable and engaged.ā
Ā CPAC Route 338 will help Canadians better understand the impact of policy decisions and why itās important to know the issues.
Ā This democratic literacy project has two key components:Ā
- The www.route338.ca website, which profiles and showcases all of Canadaās 338 federal ridings through photos, fast facts and videos from CPACās extensive archives.Ā Website users will also gain a new appreciation for the role and work of their representatives ā and the accountability that goes with serving in public office.
- A series of giant floor maps detailing Canadaās 338 ridings, developed in partnership with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. These massive, 8-by-11-metre (24-by-36-feet) floor maps will tour schools across the country, providing students from coast to coast with a highly-interactive and personalized learning opportunity.
Ā The website and giant floor maps are interrelated through a series of 11 curriculum-linked learning activities designed to help teach students from primary to senior levels about the many facets of a democratic society.
āLearning about democracy has never been more important,ā said John Geiger, CEO of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. āOur partnership with CPAC brings together the best in geographical and political education resources to give students and newcomers the information they need to understand how democracy works in Canada.ā
Ā The Route 338 website and lesson plans are available at www.route338.ca. Teachers can place requests for the giant floor map at education.canadiangrographic.ca.
CPAC is a commercial-free, not-for-profit, bilingual television service providing a window on Canadian politics and public affairs. CPAC is owned by Canadaās cable companies, who have invested more than $50 million to create and preserve this editorially independent voice. CPAC is available across Canada on basic cable and satellite, on the web at cpac.ca and on the CPAC TV 2 GO mobile app.
Ā Canadian Geographic Education is the Royal Canadian Geographical Societyās educational network, comprised of over 19,000 members. Through innovative programming and with a wide range of public and private sector partners, Canadian Geographic Education endeavours to foster geographic engagement and increase the public awareness of geographical literacy.
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International
UK Supreme Court rules āwomanā means biological female

Susan Smith (L) and Marion Calder, directors of ‘For Women Scotland’ cheer as they leave the Supreme Court on April 16, 2025, in London, England after winning their appeal in defense of biological reality
From LifeSiteNews
By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent
The ruling, in which the court rejected transgender legal status, comes as a victory for campaigners who have urged the recognition of biological reality and common sense in the law.
The U.K. Supreme Court has issued a ruling stating that āwomanā in law refers to a biological female, and that transgender āwomenā are not female in the eyes of the law.
In a unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled today that legally transgender āwomenā are not women, since a woman is legally defined by ābiological sex.ā
PublishedĀ April 16, the Supreme Courtās 88-page verdict was handed down on the case ofĀ Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v. The Scottish Ministers (Respondent). The ruling marks the end of a battle of many years between the Scottish government and womenās right campaigners who sought to oppose the governmentās promotion of transgender ideology.
In 2018, the Scottish government issued a decision to allow the definition of āwomanā to include men who assume their gender to be female, opening the door to allowing so-called ātransgenderā individuals to identify as women.
This guidance was challenged by womenās rights campaigners, arguing that a woman should be defined in line with biological sex, and in 2022 the Scottish government was forced to change its definition after the court found that such a move was outside the governmentās ālegislative competence.ā
Given this, the government issued new guidance which sought to cover both aspects: saying that biological women are women, but also that men with a āgender recognition certificateā (GRC) are also considered women. A GRC is given to people who identify as the opposite sex and who have had medical or surgical interventions in an attempt to āreassignā their gender.
Women Scotland Ltd appealed this new guidance. At first it was rejected by inner courts, but upon their taking the matter to the Supreme Court in March last year, the nationās highest judicial body took up the case.
Today, with the ruling issued against transgender ideology, womenās campaigners are welcoming the news as a win for womenās safety.
āA thing of beauty,āĀ praisedĀ Lois McLatchie Miller from the Alliance Defending Freedom legal group.
āThey looked at the whole argument, not just who goes in what bathroom and trans women. This is going to change organizations, employers, service providers,ā Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, told the Telegraph.Ā āEveryone is going to have to pay attention to this, this is from the highest court in the land. Itās saying sex in the Equality Act is biological sex. Self ID is dead.ā
āVictory,āĀ commented Charlie Bently-Astor, a prominent campaigner for biological reality against the transgender movement, after she nearly underwent surgical transition herself at a younger age.
āAfter 15 years of insanity, the U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that men who say they are ātrans womenā are not women,ā wrote leader of the Christian political movement David Kurten.
Leader of the Conservative Party ā the opposition to the current Labour government ā Kemi BadenochĀ welcomedĀ the courtās ruling, writing that āsaying ātrans women are womenā was never true in fact and now isnāt true in law, either.ā
Others lamented the fact that the debate even was taking place, let alone having gone to the Supreme Court.
āWhat a parody we live in,āĀ commentedĀ Reform Party candidate Joseph Robertson.
Rupert Lowe MP ā who has risen to new prominence in recent weeks for his outspoken condemnation of the immigration and rape gang crisis āĀ wrote, āAbsolute madness that weāre even debating what a woman is ā itās a biological fact. No amount of woke howling will ever change that.ā
However, the Supreme Court did not wish to get pulled into siding with certain arguments, with Lord Hodge of the tribunal stating that āwe counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.ā
The debate has taken center stage in the U.K. in recent years, not least for the role played by the current Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer himself has become notorious throughout the nation for his contradictions and inability to answer the question of what a woman is, having flip-flopped on saying that a woman can have a penis, due to his support for the transgender movement.
At the time of going to press, neither Starmer nor his deputy Angela Rayner issued a statement about the Supreme Court ruling. There has been no statement issued from the Scottish government either, nor from the office of the first minister.
Transgender activists have expectedly condemned the ruling as āa disgusting attack onĀ transĀ rights.ā One leading transgender campaigner individualĀ toldĀ Sky News, āI am gutted to see the judgement from the Supreme Court which ends 20 years of understanding that transgender people with a GRC are able to be, for all intents and purposes, legally recognized as our true genders.ā
International
Tulsi Gabbard tells Trump she has āevidenceā voting machines are āvulnerable to hackersā

From LifeSiteNews
By Stephen Kokx
Last month, Trump signed anĀ executive orderĀ directing federal election-related funds to be conditioned on states ācomplying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law, including the requirement that states use the national mail voter registration form that will now require proof of citizenship.ā
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced during a Cabinet meeting last week at the White House that voting machines across the U.S. are not secure.
āWe have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time, and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast,ā she said about a half hour into the meeting.
Gabbardās remarks confirm what millions of Americans have long suspected about elections across the U.S.
President Donald Trump himself has maintained skepticism of current voting methods and has called for paper ballots to prevent cheating.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was one of only a few voices to publicly argue that voting machines, like those run by Dominion and Smartmatic which were used during the 2020 presidential election, were compromised. GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene took to X to praise the businessman after Gabbard made her remarks.
āMike Lindell along with MANY others vindicated!!ā she exclaimed on X. āAnother conspiracy theory being proven right! Guess what Democrats already knew this and publicly talked about it in 2019! And then lied and lied and lied!!!ā
Last month, Trump signed anĀ executive orderĀ directing federal election-related funds to be conditioned on states ācomplying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law, including the requirement that states use the national mail voter registration form that will now require proof of citizenship.ā
Congress has also taken steps to ensure election integrity by voting on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (also known as the SAVE Act) last week. Dubbed ācontroversialā by the media and left-wing groups, the common sense bill would require persons to show proof of citizenship before voting. The House approved the measure 220-208 withĀ four Democrats in support. The bill now heads to the Senate where it will face an uphill battle for the required 60 votes. Republicans currently have a 53 seat majority.
Gabbard told Trump at the meeting that the evidence she found āfurther drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.ā
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