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Since the Quebec government banned schoolteachers, police officers, prosecutors & other public servi
A Quebec Ban on Religious Symbols Upends Lives and Careers - The New York Times
Since the Quebec government in June banned schoolteachers, police officers, prosecutors and other public sector employees from wearing religious symbols while at work, people like these three women have been grappling with the consequences:
- A Muslim lawyer
- A Sikh teacher
- An Orthodox Jewish teacher[paywall]
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Quebec is a strange place in a number of ways. They are very intolerant of even native-born French speakers not being able to exactly master their 17th-century French dialect. They despise non-French Americans. Now they have passed this religious symbol-in-the-workplace ban.
A Quebec Ban on Religious Symbols Upends Lives and Careers - The New York Times
Since the Quebec government in June banned schoolteachers, police officers, prosecutors and other public sector employees from wearing religious symbols while at work, people like these three women have been grappling with the consequences:
- A Muslim lawyer
- A Sikh teacher
- An Orthodox Jewish teacher[paywall]
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Quebec is a strange place in a number of ways. They are very intolerant of even native-born French speakers not being able to exactly master their 17th-century French dialect. They despise non-French Americans. Now they have passed this religious symbol-in-the-workplace ban.