Bill 94, An Act to, in particular, reinforce laicity in the education network and to amend various legislative provisions, 43rd Legislature, 1st Session, National Assembly of Quebec, 2025-03-20. Several Key Aspects of Bill 94: Face-coverings prohibited for anyone entering a…
Bill 94: A Major Step Towards Secular Public Schools 2025-03-20 Montreal, 20th March 2025. The Rassemblement pour la laïcité (RPL or Alliance for Secularism) welcomes Bill 94 introduced by Minister Bernard Drainville to strengthen secularism in the Quebec school system.…
Among the various Executive Orders (EOs) recently issued by USA President Donald Trump, two reinforce religious privilege in that country. The first alleges anti-Christian bias and establishes a “Task Force” to eradicate such bias. The second, issued the very next…
Le Sénat adopte une proposition de loi pour interdire le port de signes religieux dans les compétitions sportives (Senate adopts draft legislation to ban wearing religious symbols in sports competitions), Le Monde avec AFP, Le Monde, 2025-02-18. On Tuesday [18th…
The original French-language version of this letter first appeared in Le Devoir with the title Le PL-84 sur l’intégration nationale, une étape de plus vers la cohésion sociale. Nadia El-Mabrouk, François Dugré, Marie-Claude Girard, Etienne-Alexis Boucher, Lucie Jobin, Lyne Jubinville…
Press Release, Rassemblement pour la laïcité Challenge before Supreme Court Will Quebec’s right to self-determination in matters of secularism be recognized? Nadia El-Mabrouk & six cosigners, board members of RPL: Etienne-Alexis Boucher, Marie-Claude Girard, François Dugré, Lyne Jubinville, Raphaël Guérard…
Lebanese Association for the Philosophy of Law (ALIPHID) (Law and Society) Publication Date: 2025-01-19 In Plato’s Republic, the essential problem that founded the philosophy of law was posed, namely the relationship between power and law. Let us simply point out…
2015-01-07 — 2025-01-07 Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo
2024, une année centrale pour la laïcité de l’État (2024, Pivotal year for State Secularism), Marie-Claude Girard, Le Devoir, 2024-12-30. Several steps have been taken over the years towards a secular state in Quebec. We need only think of the…
Trente-six CPE sélectionnent selon l’ethnie ou la religion (Thirty-six childcare centres select according to ethnicity or religion), Francis Vailles, La Presse, 2024-11-12. An article in La Presse reveals that 36 State-funded (i.e. more than 80% State-funded) childcare centres in the…
Nadia El-Mabrouk, President of Rassemblement pour la laïcité (RPL) Publication date: 2024-11-11 Date of publication in L’AUT’JOURNAL : 2024-11-08 Honorable Premier of Quebec, Allow us to express our deep concern at the numerous revelations of religious infiltration in Quebec schools and…
Book launch of Un simulacre de laïcité by David Rand (French-language version of Stillbirth) at Le port de tête bookstore in Montreal, 6th November 2024 (Also available: Video of the launch of the English version) A great success, thanks to…
Book launch of Un simulacre de laïcité by David Rand (French-language version of Stillbirth) at Le Mot de tasse bookstore in Quebec City, 29th October 2024 A successful event and a great evening, thanks to: Main organizer: Myriam Morissette Presenter:…
Adopted at the Annual General Meeting of Atheist Freethinkers on 26th October 2024 Publication Date: 2024-10-28 In 2022, we, Atheist Freethinkers, adopted our Manifesto for Universalism in which we affirm our attachment to the universalism of the European Enlightenment and…
David Rand Publication Date: 2024-09-20 The outlandish Amira Elghawaby was appointed “Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia” by the government of Justin Trudeau in January of 2023. It is noteworthy that her mandate does not bother to define just what…
The Mouvement laïque québécois (MLQ), the organization Pour les droits des femmes du Québec (PDF-Q) and the Attorney General of Quebec have each written to the Supreme Court requesting that Justice Mahmud Jamal be withdrawn from the case involving Quebec…
The original French version of this letter is available on the RPL website and on the LPA website. Montreal, 25th June 2024 Monsieur Jean-François Roberge Minister in charge of Secularism 875, Grande-Allée Est, 3e étage, secteur 500 Québec (Québec), G1R…
For immediate release AFT welcomes judgment of Court of Appeal of Quebec but calls for removal of all mention of religion from Charters Montreal, 4th March 2024 — Atheist Freethinkers (LPA-AFT) heartily welcomes the decision of the Court of Appeal of…
Laïcité de l’État : Québec renouvelle l’utilisation de la clause dérogatoire (State Secularism: Quebec Renews its Use of the Notwithstanding Clause), Hugo Pilon-Larose and the Canadian Press, La Presse, 2024-02-08. The Quebec minister responsible for secularism, Jean-François Roberge, has tabled legislation…
Commission scolaire English-Montréal: 1,3 M$ pour contester la Loi sur la laïcité de l’État (English Montreal School Board: $1.3 million to challenge Quebec’s secularism law), Patrick Bellerose, Journal de Québec, 2024-02-01. The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has spent, to date, at…
David Rand 2023-11-30 On the website of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), there is a page entitled “Discussion Paper on Religious Intolerance,” dated October 23, 2023 and indicating that it is “Anti-racism work.” Given that its topic is religious…
David Rand 2023-11-14 The post-left, a.k.a. “wokism,” has in reality betrayed the left. It rejects the Enlightenment values which are cornerstones of the political left. “Wokism” is antisecular, neoracist and pseudoscientific. Although debate continues on how best to describe the…
Publication Date: 2023-11-04 Would your organization like to endorse this declaration? We are looking for associations, internationally, who would be interested in signing. You can reach us via this on-line form. Furthermore, we invite you to publish this declaration on…
The following video, recorded 13th October 2023, is an interview of David Rand, president of LPA-AFT and author of Stillbirth, by Arif Hussain Theruvath as part of the AAI Hot Seat series for Atheist Alliance International. Here are the 18…
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