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The Quebec government's latest attempt to legislate on secularism could find its way into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

Quebec's secularism bill is a frontal attack on women's rights and primarily targets Muslims, the head of a major feminist organization said on Thursday, May 16, 2019, during the final day of legislative hearings into the proposed law.

In many ways, the garage sale that took place at the Sisters of Ste-Anne's mother house was no different than any of the dozens of others that took place in the Montreal area over the long weekend, although few of the others are quite as steeped in history.

Hearings into Quebec's secularism bill veered off track on Thursday, May 9, 2019, when a former senator drew a connection between the Muslim head scarf, female genital mutilation and forced marriage.

A second prominent intellectual has told the Quebec government it is going down the wrong path with its secularism bill, saying there is no compelling reason to lump teachers among the public servants who'd be prevented from displaying their religious beliefs at work.

There are growing calls for a suburban Montreal mayor to apologize for comments last week equating the province's proposed secularism legislation to "ethnic cleansing."

Quebec's proposed legislation banning religious symbols for some public servants is drawing criticism from one of the province's leading public intellectuals.

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.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault says his government wants to collect information on public servants wearing religious symbols to counter opponents who maintain proposed secularism legislation will lead to extensive firings.

Canada's chief science adviser admits her first year on the job was not exactly what she'd expected.

The incoming Coalition Avenir Quebec government is facing criticism for saying it has no intention of removing the crucifix from the legislature, even as it plans to crack down on some civil servants who wear religious symbols.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford tweeted a selfie of himself with Alberta Opposition leader Jason Kenney criticizing a tax on pollution, as his government faced accusations from federal Liberals of restricting some public servants from speaking about climate change.

1,100 of the more than 80,000 problem files identified last week have been closed, said deputy public works minister Marie Lemay.

More than 80,000 civil servants are facing pay issues, including 720 who have not been paid at all — in some cases for months.