secularism law

Job postings at Quebec's largest school board have begun including the requirement that new teachers not wear religious symbols or face coverings on the job, in accordance with the province's new secularism law.

Quebec's highest court agreed on Thursday, August 1, 2019, to hear an appeal on behalf of groups seeking to suspend the central parts of the province's secularism law.

Groups opposed to Quebec's secularism law are seeking to appeal a court decision that found it wasn't necessary to suspend certain provisions of the law.

As lawyers defended the Quebec government's secularism law from a constitutional challenge in a Montreal court on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, the crucifix hanging over the province's legislative chamber in Quebec City was quietly removed.

Feminist analyst Alexa Conradi says some Quebec legislators are operating under false assumptions that women who wear head coverings need saving.

While most Canadians firmly back the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and strongly support the idea of diversity, a new poll suggests a third of Canadians would ban their elected officials from wearing religious symbols.

The Quebec government scrambled on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, to explain how its proposed secularism law would be enforced as a growing number of organizations said they are prepared to disobey it.

May Chiu, a family and human rights lawyer, ran in a previous provincial election for Quebec solidaire, which bills itself as the most environmentalist, left-leaning and socially conscious of the four major political parties.