{"id":883077,"date":"2026-09-04T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883077\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:10:09","slug":"explainer-quebecs-prayer-restrictions-are-now-in-effect-heres-how-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883077\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: Quebec\u2019s prayer restrictions are now in effect. Here\u2019s how they work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Concordia University, there are no longer any spaces set aside for prayer. At the STM transit agency, meditation and yoga remain permitted in employee reflection rooms, but religious practices do not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those distinctions are now part of the application of Quebec\u2019s strengthened secularism law.<a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/provincial-news\/provincial-politics\/bill-9-opponents-vow-to-continue-fight-after-secularism-law-expanded\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Bill 9 was adopted in April,<\/a> but a key provision that took effect Sept. 1 prohibits individual and collective religious practices in premises, buildings and grounds under the authority of institutions covered by the law, subject to specific exceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what does that mean in practice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Concordia University, there are no longer any spaces set aside for prayer. At the STM transit agency,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-883077","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\/883077","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=883077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}