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• Position: Gender discrimination, church garden, juice boxes in Ontario schools

The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination says the state's new ban on gender identity discrimination means that churches have to allow people to use the bathroom of their choice when holding a "secular event, such as a spaghetti supper, that is open to the general public."

Metric Giles got tired of looking at the trash-strewn vacant lot next to the offices of the Community Stabilization Project where he works in St. Paul, Minnesota. The lot was once the site of a church that was torn down due to code violations. So with permission of that church, which says it still owns the lot, he and some others cleaned it up and planted a garden. The state, which claims the space was forfeited years ago for back taxes, ordered Giles to remove the plants.

Officials at Toronto's Jackman Avenue Junior Public School were extremely unhappy that students were tossing their juice boxes into the garbage or putting them into recycling bins but leaving the straws in. Officials wanted to maintain the district's highest "EchoSchools" rating, so they banned juice boxes.

In the United Kingdom, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has directed restaurants to cut the portion sizes or reduce the sugar in desserts and other sweets. Efforts will be tracked on a government website, and those who don't comply with the demands will be publicly named.

Hazel Juco, a senior at Michigan's John Glenn High School, says she posted a photo of the discolored water coming out of a tap at a school sink on social media because she hoped it might spur some action. It did. She was suspended for using an electronic device in a school restroom.

Lee Miller of Port Orange, Florida, logged onto his bank's website to find his savings account had been emptied. Most of the money in his checking account was gone, too. Thinking he'd been hacked, he called the bank and found the federal government had drained his...