Haunted by its Roman Catholic background and still horrorstruck by last year’s mosque shooting, Québec, the French-speaking province of Canada,…
Niqab, sunglasses, and the sincerity of belief
Charter of Quebec Values
Short skirts and niqab bans: On sexuality and the secular body
Introduced in Québec in March 2010, Bill 94 proposed requiring women to unveil their faces if they wanted to work…
The Charter of Quebec Values derailed
On April 7th the Quebec Liberal Party won a majority government in the 41st Quebec general election, with incumbent Parti…
The Charter of Quebec Values
On November 7th, 2013, on the heels of a heated public debate about the role of religion in public life,…
The Charter of Quebec Values in the media: Panic, contempt, and division
The recent media buzz stirred up by a sad story captures well the sense of uneasiness pervading Quebec since the…