Targeting the Canadian chapter of the Proud Boys with anti-terror legislation has led to the group's apparent demise, but a leading expert says it might have little effect on the broader far-right movement. The development could simply harden the.
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Last week saw big news for Jean-Drapeau Park: The city of Montreal has expansive recovery plans to turn it into a major green urban hub for Montrealers by 2030. How expansive? A high line promenade, Quebec’s first green urban bridge, increased waterfront and canal access, huge urban parks, water ferry reception halls, wetland integration the list goes on. The plan for intensified greening of Île Notre-Dame and Île Ste-Hélène into more than expansive sites for festivals, however, has already started to meet opposition from events like Osheaga. There are 31 sites in total that are expected to see changes. Some of those are repairs and renovations to sites including that $45 million earmarked for the Biosphere but Montrealers can understand those changes through 10 major facelifts.
Court upholds most of Quebec’s secularism bill April 22, 2021
OTTAWA An effort to have the courts overturn Quebec’s controversial Bill 21 has failed, even though a provincial court did rule that some aspects of the law that infringe on language rights must be scrapped by the government.
In a 242-page Quebec Superior Court ruling released early April 20, Justice Marc-André Blanchard ruled that the Quebec government does have the power to require its employees not wear any religious symbols while they are at work. The restriction means that public workers such as teachers and police officers must dress in a secular manner when they are working in an official capacity.
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A Quebec Superior Court judge has upheld most of the province’s law banning religious dress in some public-service functions but carved out an exception for the anglophone education system, to the dismay of Premier François Legault and other Quebec nationalists.
Justice Marc-André Blanchard ruled Tuesday that Quebec’s “Act respecting the laicity of the State,” better known as Bill 21, infringes fundamental rights to religious expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and its Quebec equivalent. He found Bill 21 has “cruel and dehumanizing” effects on the targeted people.