Our Lady of Fatima appeared to peasant children near a town 108 km north of Lisbon 100 years ago this month.  Details of this historic event are taught to children in provincial faith-based schools in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta and will now be reinforced because the Pope will be going to Portugal to celebrate the centennial.  This alternative fact is not taught in secular (evidence-based) provincial schools in Canada.  Nor is the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, infallibly promulgated by Pius XII in 1950.  Belief in this dogma is required of students in Catholic schools and instruction about it is subsidized by all taxpayers through government grants to separate school boards.

Nonetheless, we witness no anxiety over how and what Canada is teaching its children in the modern era, especially in Saskatchewan.