Sentences with phrase «niqabs at»

Jason Kenney looked stupid, for example, when the courts blocked his ban on niqabs at citizenship ceremonies.

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While visiting Abu Dhabi, Carrie and the gang find themselves in the back room of a dried - flower shop staring at seven women wearing black niqabs.

Women were particularly turned off, Fraser says, when they asked Kenney about LGBTQ rights and the federal Tories» niqab ban at citizenship ceremonies, and he deflected.

Canadian courts have often pushed back at attempts to infringe on that right, in cases involving niqabs and kirpans, for instance.

So I say bring it on, come from all four corners of the Earth and lets together build a better society, an inclusive society, a free society where we don't suffer apoplexy at the sight of a burka or niqab, where the colour of your skin means nothing more than a reminder of the accidental random allocation of your birthplace on this planet.We all need to learn a lot more about the history of this nation and some of the very very cruel things that it has done in the name of Empire, and before (and is still doing in the name of Capitalism thinly veiled as national security).

By tailoring and repurposing couture silk scarves into niqabs, Al - Badry investigates female objectification at the intersections of both male and market desires.

MICHAEL MINELLI LOS ANGELES MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY The head of a nurse, an Arab woman in Niqab, and a cicatrized, monocled Daddy Warbucks - like man stare at the viewer blankly, not even asking, in...

OTTAWA • Niqab - clad OPEC supporters turned up at the United States embassy on Thursday to thank American president Barack Obama for blocking the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, ensuring ongoing support for conflict oil from OPEC countries.

Justices Louis LeBel and Marshall Rothstein concurred with the judgment on dismissing the appeal, but argued for «a clear rule that niqabs may not be worn at any stage of the criminal trial» in the interests of openness and religious neutrality.

The judge at the preliminary inquiry ordered that N.S. remove her niqab before testifying but an Ontario Superior Court judge later dismissed that order.

The majority decision, supported by four of the seven judges who heard the case at the SCC, said lower courts must consider, among other things, the harm that could come if Muslim women who wear the niqab feel discouraged from reporting offenses.

Clearly, this law is aimed at persons, especially Muslim women, who wear face coverings related to their religion, such as a burqa or niqab.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently decided a case regarding the ability of a complainant in a sexual assault case to wear a veil over her face while testifying in court.36 At the preliminary inquiry, the judge ordered that she remove her niqab before testifying.

Justices LeBel and Rothstein dissented, finding that niqabs should not be worn at any stage of criminal trial proceedings.

Finally, reaffirming the judiciary's attempts at even - handedness regarding headcoverings and the niqab, in 2012 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a judgment29 that weighed the rights of a witness to wear a niqab against the constitutional right of the accused to a fair trial, where the credibility of the veiled witness was in question.