{"id":6211,"date":"2023-06-17T00:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/n-b-minister-resigns-over-controversial-changes-to-lgbtq-policy-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2023-06-17T00:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:06:26","slug":"n-b-minister-resigns-over-controversial-changes-to-lgbtq-policy-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/n-b-minister-resigns-over-controversial-changes-to-lgbtq-policy-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"N.B minister resigns over controversial changes to LGBTQ policy in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSN2kh6Or2w\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs spoke in the legislature Thursday about his conviction that gender dysphoria has become &#8216;trendy&#8217; and increased acceptance of it is hurting kids and excluding parents, cabinet minister Dorothy Shephard got up and left the chamber. She later resigned from her position as social development minister. <\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFor breaking news on Twitter:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs spoke in the legislature Thursday about his conviction that gender dysphoria has become &#8216;trendy&#8217; and increased acceptance of it is hurting kids and excluding parents, cabinet minister Dorothy Shephard got up and left the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,927,86,87,4852,3209,4854,4853,4855,1029,4753,75,4856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}