The law aims for ‘religious neutrality’ while targeting Muslim women who wear a niqab or burka
The new Liberal government officially puts an end to an attempt to ban the niqab during the citizenship oath
This election’s hot issue is a veil worn by less than two per cent of Canadian Muslim women. Can’t we talk about something else?
The Giller Prize winner accuses the PM of ‘race-baiting’ and ignoring issues like murdered and missing Indigenous women
While Harper hints at a ban on niqabs in the public service, there’s no evidence they’ve ever been an issue among actual workers
From expat voting rights to deporting terrorists and rejecting niqabs, this campaign has focused on the surprising question of who gets to be a citizen
Wearing niqabs at the ballot box was an issue in past years. Will it become one again?
Nestled in Justice Johanne Trudel’s 24-paragraph Federal Court of Appeal decision is a phrase that explains this whole sorry mess
Find out where each party stands on the Islamic veil.
In the NDP’s power base of Quebec, Thomas Mulcair risked it all in condemning the Tories’ niqab gambit
Amidst all the scripted talking points in the final leaders debate, the NDP leader went on a bold but risky offensive
The Defence Minister on government policy: ‘The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one’s fellow citizens should be done publicly’