Canada has just recently removed the requirement for teaching spins from the PPL sylabus. Personnally I think they were half right. The requirement to teach spin recovery prior to solo IMHO only served to scare the pants off most folks who were still a bit overwhelmed by the whole flying thing. However removing the requirement to demonstrate a spin recovery on the PPL flight test is not in my opinion a step forward. In TCs defence they did place more emphasis on spin recognition /avoidance. Personnally when I used to teach the PPL I always set up a base to final stall spin demo and I also got the student to FULLY stall the aircraft and then keep the stick full back and work the rudders to stop the aircraft from departing. This manoever is a particularly effective in the C 150 and convincingly demonstrated that if you control yaw the aircraft will not spin.