{"id":238517,"date":"2025-10-25T05:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238517\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:06:28","slug":"quebec-to-ban-religious-symbols-in-daycare-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238517\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec to ban religious symbols in daycare centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province&#8217;s daycare centres. <\/p>\n<p>Secularism Minister Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roberge says there is a &#8220;broad consensus&#8221; that Quebecers want secularism to be strengthened. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows a recommendation made this summer by a committee tasked with advising the province on how to enhance secularism. The committee had called for the ban to be extended to daycares. <\/p>\n<p>Quebec has already banned public sector workers in positions of authority, such as teachers and judges, from wearing religious symbols on the job. <\/p>\n<p>Roberge says the new legislation will include an exemption for people already employed in daycare centres. <\/p>\n<p>The government has already tabled legislation to extend the religious symbols ban to all public school staff, and Roberge has also promised to ban prayer in public places.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province&#8217;s daycare centres. Secularism Minister Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roberge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-238517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}