Quebec Just Banned Face Veils For People Receiving Govt. Services: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Quebec just banned face veils for people receiving government services
“Provincial politicians passed the measure on Wednesday after years of unsuccessful attempts to pass similar legislation. Initially Bill 62 would only have applied to provincial public services, like universities and public health care institutions. But recent amendments have expanded the plan to cover municipal services, including public transit, meaning women can’t wear the niqab or burqa when they’re on a bus or subway in the province.”
2. Remembering Gord Downie
“He was on a fishing trip. In the remote north, in a land where the many not born there dare not go. Where some get lost. Where some go to get lost.
“Days earlier, this quiet man had held much of the entire nation rapt, millions watching as he summoned all his strength to tackle his terminal condition, to fend back—however briefly—the inevitability of death. To testify one more time. It would turn out to be the last show of his band’s 30-year, multi-million-selling, award-winning career, a fate many suspected at the time.
“But things were much quieter now. Just a few close friends on a starry night in front of a campfire.”
– Macleans
3. Trump offered a grieving military father $25,000 in a call, but didn’t follow through
“President Trump, in a personal phone call to a grieving military father, offered him $25,000 and said he would direct his staff to establish an online fundraiser for the family, but neither happened, the father said.
“Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Cpl. Dillon Baldridge, told The Washington Post that Trump called him at his home in Zebulon, N.C., a few weeks after his 22-year-old son and two fellow soldiers were gunned down by an Afghan police officer in a suspected insider attack June 10.”
4. In China’s remote west, this is what a 21st-century police state really looks like
“Far from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing. ‘It’s a kind of frontline laboratory for surveillance.'”
5. New Atheism’s idiot heirs
“Whatever merits anti-theism may have with regard to social issues, humanism was never the prime mover for New Atheism’s most devout adherents. They were after the burst of dopamine that comes from feeling smarter than other people, from exercising some pathetic simulacrum of masculine power, from seeing someone else feel bad and knowing they were responsible.”
