A Canadian province has passed legislation that would bar civil servants in positions of "authority" from wearing religious symbols at work. The Coalition Avenir Quebec's (CAQ) bill covers judges ...

MONTREAL (JTA) — Quebec has introduced a bill that bans some public employees from wearing religious symbols at work, including kippahs. The measure is intended to reinforce the separation of ...

The newly-elected premier of Quebec in Canada has raised eyebrows by saying a crucifix hanging in the provincial legislature is not a religious symbol. François Legault's remarks come despite his ...

The main function of the 2019 secularism law, Lampron says, was to "expand the scope" of religious neutrality in Quebec to include religious symbols — which have little or nothing to do with ...

MONTREAL (JTA) — A top Quebec court mostly upheld a provincial law banning Jews and other religious minorities who work in public from wearing religious symbols such as yarmulkes, crucifixes and ...

The CAQ sped up the legislative process by invoking closure, supposedly settling the debate on secularism in Quebec. Five years later, the law known as Bill 21,which bars many public servants from ...