Steve Rukavina

What began as a fight over the right of teachers in Quebec to wear hijabs has morphed into an epic legal battle about how Canadian democracy should function.

Montreal police arrested Bryan Fuentes Gramajo, 24, overnight Wednesday. He was wanted in connection with the shooting death of 28-year-old Kashif Jamal Bentley-Jean last July in the parking lot of the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto.

Rapper K'naan, whose real name is Keinan Abdi Warsame, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a Quebec City hotel room in 2010. Testifying in his own defence, he said the incident never happened.

Legal arguments at the Supreme Court challenge into Quebec’s secularism law Wednesday focused on how provinces use the notwithstanding clause, exposing a national divide. Some provinces agree with Quebec’s approach while others — and Ottawa — see a need for more limits.

Four days of hearings in the Supreme Court challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, Bill 21, are over. While the hearings dealt mostly with complex legal questions, there were some moments that revealed the intensity and passionate nature of the debates.

Adopted earlier this month, Bill 9 bans workers in publicly funded daycares from wearing religious symbols on the job. Many daycare operators say they’re still in the dark about how the law is supposed to work.

A group that advocates for trans health care says McGill University’s wellness hub is refusing to provide hormone replacement therapy to U.S. students under the age of 19 because of fears of repercussions from the Trump administration.

The Quebec government tabled a bill Thursday to expand the province's language regulations to adult and vocational education centres. If the legislation passes into law, students who are not considered part of the province's "historic anglophone" community would no longer be able to access English-language education.

Politicians in Quebec were quick to condemn the alleged racist acts by an entire squad of police officers in Montréal-Nord. But some say the condemnations ring hollow until the province acknowledges systemic racism.

The City of Repentigny is formally asking Ottawa to reassess speed limits for trains in urban areas after a derailment earlier this month saw 46 cars jump the tracks in a residential neighbourhood.