(Clive Brunskill/Reuters)
Leeds United soccer players wear shirts with the message Football is for the Fans during the
warm-up for their Premier League game yesterday against Liverpool. The Leeds players were reacting to the news that 12 top European clubs, including Liverpool, are forming a breakaway league that could change the financial and competitive nature of the sport for generations to come. Read more on the launch of the controversial new league here.
In brief
A Quebec Superior Court judge will rule today on whether the province's controversial ban on religious symbols is constitutional. The decision comes roughly a year and a half after the Coalition Avenir Québec government passed Bill 21, which bans some civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work. Among the largest group affected by the ban are Muslim women, who are no longer allowed to wear hijabs if they work as public teachers, police officers, prison guards or government-paid lawyers. The restrictions were necessary, the government said, to protect Quebec's unique version of secularism, or laicity. Civil liberties groups — including the National Council of Muslims — began filing lawsuits against Bill 21 as soon as it was passed. At a trial in the fall of 2020, Justice Marc-André Blanchard heard four different lawsuits, each attacking different aspects of the law. Read more about the ban on religious symbols.