This article in La Presse suggests that the remainder of Canadian provinces would have been less likely than the provincial government of Quebec to expel a niqab-wearing woman in a language class for wearing a niqab. The journalist suggests that students in similar classes in Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Colombia are permitted to keep their niqabs. … [Read more...] about La Presse considers non-Quebecois Canadian responses to the niqab
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Quebecois Journalists Revisit Reasonable Accommodation Following “Honor” Killings
Speculation that the deaths of three Montreal-area sisters and their female caregiver could have been “honor” killings has rekindled the reasonable accommodation debate in the Quebec press. Le Devoir columnist Jean-Claude Leclerc called the tragedy, which took place in Kingston, “the pretext for another dispute over tolerance in Canada.” Le Journal de Montreal's Richard … [Read more...] about Quebecois Journalists Revisit Reasonable Accommodation Following “Honor” Killings