text: "religious encroachment" Come on, be realistic, sky. We're talking about some students using an empty classroom for 15 minutes. This has been happening without incident for 20 years and isn't unique to the Peel board nor to the public school system. These simple, reasonable solutions are in effect in other school boards and even in a Catholic school in St Catherine's. There is nothing here to be afraid of.
  
  I've been using the example of Christmas and Easter to demonstrate that our Christian heritage is so ingrained into our culture that we don't even notice it anymore. But it's intellectually dishonest to ignore how our society evolved to accommodate Christian worship. Now we being asked to make a small, very small, effort to accommodate another religion, one that has been in Canada for almost as long as there has been a Canada. Did you know that the Muslim presence here goes back as far as 1871? These aren't strangers, these are our co-worker, our neighbours, and their children.