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Quebec continues to mock marriage
Montreal Gazette – July 8, 2010
When it comes to marriage in Quebec anyone can officiate
By Bill Tierney
Some people dread getting married. Some people like it so much they do it over and over. And now in Quebec it’s easier than ever before. It takes all of five minutes. You read off a couple of articles from the appropriate Quebec laws, the couple (presumably) says yes, everyone signs up and it’s all over, maybe even for life.
Quebec Premier’s ongoing war against private sector
Financial Post – July 5, 2010
CFIB protests Quebec wage hikes
By Nicolas Van Praet
Montreal – Quebec’s small and medium-sized companies are livid over a pledge made by the provincial government to offer two sets of raises to its civil servants, including a compensation hike linked to economic growth.
Should Quebec return tax dollars received from all Christians?
National Post – June 28, 2010
Religious people are taxpayers too
By Charles Lewis
Yesterday, the Post editorial board contended that Montreal’s Loyola High School should not have the right to opt out of a Quebec government-sponsored ethics and religion program – despite a court ruling allowing it to do so – because it receives public funds.
Charest’s Quebec ready to defend totalitarian humanist ideology
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National Post – June 22, 2010
Quebec to appeal ruling on religious course
By Graeme Hamilton
The Quebec government plans to appeal a court ruling that found its imposition of a province-wide ethics and religion course on a private Catholic school “totalitarian” and unconstitutional. The scathing decision issued on Friday by Quebec Superior Court Justice Gerard Dugre was a victory for Montreal’s Loyola High School, a Jesuit boys’ school that has objected to the controversial course since its 2008 introduction.
Court slams totalitarianism of Charest’s humanist Quebec government
Montreal Gazette – June 19, 2010
Court backs Loyola over ethics course: Ruling slams Quebec approach. Attempt to impose secular focus on teaching compared to Spanish Inquisition
By James Mennie
A private Catholic school in west end Montreal has won a court ordered exemption from a provincial government order that it teach a controversial ethics and morality course within the boundaries established by Quebec’s Education Dept.