MONTREAL School officials across Montreal were caught off guard on Friday by a new pronouncement from the province: it doesn’t think air purifiers work as a way to limit COVID-19 spread in classrooms. “We don’t recommend those filtration devices,” said Dr. Richard Massé of the provincial institute of public health during an announcement about the plan to reopen Quebec schools in person beginning next week. The institute just did a study that found that air purifiers don’t limit virus transmission which had some scientists and Montreal-area school boards scratching their heads, since there’s plenty of other research showing they do.
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As 2020 comes to a close, the Montreal Gazette looks at people who will make an impact in the year ahead. T’Cha Dunlevy talks to them about what’s on their mind in these challenging times.
“It’s been non-stop busy,” said Marlene Jennings, looking back on 2020. “I’m still trying to catch my breath; and I haven’t been able to do that yet.”
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In September, she ended a whirlwind, one-year stint as trustee of the English Montreal School Board. In that time, she pulled the EMSB out its dysfunctional state, and helped it transform into an entity equipped to face the future.
MONTREAL — The Quebec government does not believe its secularism law violates freedom of religion, but rather it serves to frame it, one of its lawyers told a court Wednesday.As those defending the . . .
As trial over Quebec religious symbols ban wraps up, minority rights hang in the balance
Legal questions aside, Quebec s Bill 21, which bars teachers and some other civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work, raises fundamental questions about whether courts can limit the power of the majority.
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Posted: Dec 21, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
The Laicity Act, which bars teachers and some other civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work, is often at the center of debates about systemic racism in Quebec. The constitutionality of the law is being challenged in Quebec Superior Court. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)