A welcome sign in the lobby of Montreal’s newly renovated city hall depicting a woman wearing a head scarf will be removed in the name of secularism, Montreal’s mayor says, following criticism that the image is offensive.
Valerie Plante said during a talk show that aired Sunday night that the drawing of a woman wearing what looks like a hijab, or Islamic head scarf, will be taken down because of the “discomfort” it causes but also because institutions must strive to be secular.











Eleven teachers in Quebec have been suspended for promoting what Premier François Legault referred to as “Islamist religious concepts” at a Montreal public school.

A Montreal elementary school is at the centre of a secularism debate. Here’s how we got here