Quebec’s Face Veil Ban May Face Supreme Court Challenge: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Quebec’s face veil ban may face a Supreme Court challenge
“A lot is unknown about how Quebec will implement a new law banning people wearing face veils from receiving public services, but what’s virtually certain is that it will be challenged in court.
“In the near future, a Muslim woman wearing a veil, and possibly with the backing of one or several civil rights organizations, will likely attempt to receive a public service in Quebec and be denied.
“The interaction will spark a court challenge that will probably end up in the Supreme Court of Canada, said Natasha Bakht, a law professor at the University of Ottawa.”
2. Some 600,000 refugees later, Ottawa digs in on dealing with Myanmar on Rohingya crisis
“As a growing number of Canadians demanded action on the Rohingya crisis — many calling for Ottawa to revoke the Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s honorary Canadian citizenship — Karen MacArthur was flying over Northern Rakhine state, ground zero for the Rohingya’s plight.
“Canada’s ambassador to Myanmar is one of very few Canadians, or foreigners from anywhere, who have seen that troubled strip of land since the violence and displacement started, prompting many, including the UN and Canada, to describe it as ethnic cleansing.”
– CBC News
3. As parties clash, hopes dim for congressional Russia inquiries
“Nine months into the Trump administration, any notion that Capitol Hill would provide a comprehensive, authoritative and bipartisan accounting of the extraordinary efforts of a hostile power to disrupt American democracy appears to be dwindling.”
4. How Netflix made ‘Stranger Things’ a global phenomenon
“Making movies or series that play well overseas depends to a certain extent on quality, of course, and Netflix has long maintained that geography is a poor indicator of what people will actually watch. But for a show like Stranger Things—which is an Emmy-nominated and critically-praised show in the US—to succeed abroad, Netflix has to translate its genius to as many markets as possible. Literally.”
– Wired
5. Hypocrisy is dead
“Hypocrisy is a commonly accepted part of the process now, and one could say it’s even a way of dealing with the reality that ordinary people, by themselves, are powerless. If there are no consequences for destroying families with impunity, or leaving Puerto Rico to die of thirst, or lying to start an unnecessary war that kills hundreds of thousands and destabilizes an entire region, or not holding financial institutions and executives accountable for gambling away the economy, or any of the other litany of ways that politicians have failed us in recent years — then why would anyone actually care about hypocrisy?”
