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Quebec's contentious secularism bill banning religious symbols for teachers, police officers and other public servants in positions of authority was voted into law late on Sunday, June 16, 2019.

For the first time in the history of Quebec, the provincial government has no senior ministers and only two elected representatives from the island of Montreal. Will Dubitsky examines divisions emerging over proposals by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, notably a law banning certain public officials from wearing religious symbols.

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'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.

The Quebec government's move to legislate on secularism will come at the expense of individual freedoms, Montreal's archbishop said on Thursday, May 16, 2019.

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."

Immigrants and visible minorities are noticing how some of the most significant pieces of legislation introduced by the Coalition Avenir Quebec government since it took power last October have something in common: the bills disproportionately affect them.

Thousands of Montrealers chanted for solidarity and loudly denounced Premier Francois Legault on Sunday, April 7, 2019, as they took to the streets to oppose the Quebec government's proposed secularism bill.

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's bill to ban the wearing of religious symbols for some state employees is drawing wide-ranging opposition, from teachers donning symbolic hijabs in the street to an eminent philosopher who co-authored a report that inspired the legislation.