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Mulcair: Federal leaders should step up against Bill 21 The pusillanimity of all federal party leaders in dealing with the issue of discrimination against religious minorities has been shameful.
Author of the article: Tom Mulcair • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 20, 2021 • 18 hours ago • 3 minute read • Demonstrators in Place Émilie-Gamelin in Montreal Sunday, April 7, 2019 protest against Bill 21. On Tuesday, Justice Marc-André Blanchard ruled that Bill 21 does indeed violate religious freedom guarantees, but that the so-called “notwithstanding clause” shields most of it from being struck down. Photo by John Kenney /Montreal Gazette
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Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-André Blanchard has just rendered a lengthy, nuanced decision. He ruled that Bill 21 does indeed violate religious freedom guarantees, but that the so-called “notwithstanding clause” shields most of it from being struck down.
Tom Mulcair: Federal leaders should step up against Bill 21 The pusillanimity of all federal party leaders in dealing with the issue of discrimination against religious minorities has been shameful.
Author of the article: Tom Mulcair • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 20, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Demonstrators in Place Émilie-Gamelin in Montreal Sunday, April 7, 2019 protest against Bill 21. On Tuesday, Justice Marc-André Blanchard ruled that Bill 21 does indeed violate religious freedom guarantees, but that the so-called “notwithstanding clause” shields most of it from being struck down. Photo by John Kenney /Montreal Gazette
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Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-André Blanchard has just rendered a lengthy, nuanced decision. He ruled that Bill 21 does indeed violate religious freedom guarantees, but that the so-called “notwithstanding clause” shields most of it from being struck down.
Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Tuesday, April 13, 2021:
There have been 391,009 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 4,401 cases from the previous day. There have been 348,684 people recovered from the virus while 7,567 have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 13,196,288 of which 24,796 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 1,071,016. The country has 23,356 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, four in Nunavut, 1,513 in British Columbia, 2,018 in Alberta, 455 in Saskatchewan, 949 in Manitoba, 7,567 in Ontario, 10,744 in Quebec, 33 in New Brunswick, six in Newfoundland & Labrador and 66 in Nova Scotia.
Published Sunday, April 11, 2021 2:25PM EDT MONTREAL One person was found dead and seven were taken to hospital after a five-alarm fire swept through a low-income seniors housing complex in Montreal Sunday morning. Antoine Ortuso of the Urgences-Sante ambulance service said the death was declared at the scene, but the cause had not yet been established. He says seven people were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation and other medical problems while five more were treated at the site. Urgences-Sante said it received a call at about 9:20 a.m. and sent five ambulances to the building southwest of the downtown core.