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MONTREAL - Demonstrators streamed through downtown Montreal to protest Quebec's contentious language bill on Saturday, demanding it be scrapped to preserve the rights of anglophones, allophones and Indigenous communities.
'We can only see one motivation behind the proposed bill,' the professors write. 'To grant the government more power to interfere in how universities are run, and to enable students and faculty alike to punish one another' for actually debating contentious topics.
Jeremy Gabriel is a person with a disability. With a varying lexicon, Mike Ward targeted him with insulting jokes ridiculing his disability and the Supreme Court decided in his favour setting a troubling precedent.
MONTREAL -- The controversial notwithstanding clause (section 33 of the Constitution Act), has been debated incessantly in Canada and particularly in Quebec since its inception in 1982, following the patriation of the Constitution. Why? Because it allows a provincial government to disregard certain rights and freedoms, knowing those guarantees are likely to get in the way of the law it would like to pass. “The notwithstanding clause is a kind of escape hatch that allows a government to pass a law that may not respect those rights and freedoms but instead of being struck down by court...
CBC Kids News • Published 2021-04-23 07:57 Despite changes, Bill 21 still ‘saddens me,’ teen says ⭐️HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW⭐️ Quebec has a controversial law that prevents provincial employees from wearing religious symbols, such as hijabs, to work. A judge ruled that the law, called Bill 21, shouldn’t apply to teachers in English schools. The law hasn’t changed for other public workers such as police officers and lawyers. Read more to find out how kids will be affected by this. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ A decision this week by a Quebec judge could have...