In Canada’s Quebec, Indigenous people continue to fight French law
Montreal, CanadaReuters A sweeping law adopted by Quebec on Tuesday to promote French usage is elevating already simmering tensions with indigenous groups, who see the move as an imposition and have vowed to fight it. Bill 96, passed by a majority of Quebec legislators, sets stricter rules to enforce French usage in the province, adding […]
Pope to visit Canada to apologise for Indigenous abuses
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis, who has been using a wheelchair because of a bad knee, is going ahead with plans to visit Canada this summer so he can apologize in person for abuse suffered by Indigenous people at the hands of the Catholic church. The Vatican on Friday announced that Francis will head to Canada on 24th […]
Quebec to appeal court ruling on disputed religious symbols law
Montreal, CanadaReuters The Canadian province of Quebec said on Tuesday it would appeal a court ruling that exempts some teachers and provincial politicians from a controversial law that bans public employees from wearing religious symbols. The ruling, which upheld most of a 2019 law, stops it from applying to educators in Quebec’s minority English-language school […]
Canadian river wins legal rights in global push to protect nature
Toronto, Canada Thomson Reuters Foundation A river has won legal rights for the first time in Canadian history, in a move hailed by environmentalists as a new way to protect nature from humans. The Magpie River in northern Quebec, which runs nearly 300 kilometres, was granted the rights this week by the local Indigenous council […]
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ESSAY: IN QUÉBEC, CHRISTIAN LIBERALISM BECOMES THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY
In an article first published on The Conversation, HANNAH DICK, of Canada’s Carleton University, looks at a proposed new “secularism law” in the Canadian province of Québec…
Churches head expresses sympathy for victims of Quebec mosque attack
The head of the World Council of Churches has expressed his sympathy after a gunman killed six people and injured more than 15 others at the Grand Mosque in Quebec City, saying there was “a particular evil in any attack on people at a place of worship”. The shooting took place Sunday night when more […]