Posts Tagged ‘quebec’

Canadian Monarchy Debate Rekindled: Should We Dare to Depose Our Foreign Head of State?

Thursday, November 12, 2009 13:59 9 Comments

Yesterday I raised the matter of the continued role of the British monarchy in Canada as a potential church-state separation issue for the Centre for Inquiry. The monarchy debate has been rekindled in part because of an 11 day visit to Canada by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, which ended this [...]

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A First for Everything: Ontario leads Quebec on secular activism??

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 15:53 1 Comment

According to a reporter I just spoke with from Quebec City with the Canwest News Service, the Quebec Human Rights Commission - following a similar decision in Ontario a couple of years ago - recently ruled that municipalities in Quebec are violating principles of equality by including religious prayers in the opening sessions of their [...]

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