CanadaQuebec’s Bill 62 is what Islamophobia looks likeThe law aims for ‘religious neutrality’ while targeting Muslim women who wear a niqab or burka
OttawaThe niqab ban: 2011-15The new Liberal government officially puts an end to an attempt to ban the niqab during the citizenship oath
OttawaA Muslim voter tires of niqab talkThis 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?
OttawaAuthor Joseph Boyden takes on Stephen HarperThe Giller Prize winner accuses the PM of ’race-baiting’ and ignoring issues like murdered and missing Indigenous women
CanadaNiqabs in the workplace? Who cares.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
OttawaThis election will be won on citizenship issues. To our shame.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
OttawaCan those wearing a niqab vote in an election where the niqab’s a hot issue?Wearing niqabs at the ballot box was an issue in past years. Will it become one again?
OttawaThe one sentence that sums up the niqab ’debate’Nestled in Justice Johanne Trudel’s 24-paragraph Federal Court of Appeal decision is a phrase that explains this whole sorry mess
OttawaElection Issues 2015: A Maclean’s primer on the niqabFind out where each party stands on the Islamic veil.
OttawaThomas Mulcair took a bold stand on the niqab. It may ruin him.In the NDP’s power base of Quebec, Thomas Mulcair risked it all in condemning the Tories’ niqab gambit