Toula Drimonis
@mtltoula.bsky.social
“The possibilities for disgrace are enormous.” - Leonard Cohen on creating art.
Writer, journalist, opinion columnist, flâneuse.
Writer, journalist, opinion columnist, flâneuse.
Reposted by Toula Drimonis
It's not secularism if it doesn't come from the laīcité region of France.
Despite what the bill’s supporters claim, true secularism doesn’t seek the erasure of religion from the public sphere, but protects religious minorities from any state-imposed religion.
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
cultmtl.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It's not secularism if it doesn't come from the laīcité region of France.
Reposted by Toula Drimonis
Because of course it does.
Je perds mon nouveau médecin dans les prochains mois. Elle part pour l’Ontario. Loin de la blâmer, je la comprends et je l’appuie. Plate pour nous? Oui. Mais traiter les médecins comme des personnes, c’est plus important
Je perds mon nouveau médecin dans les prochains mois. Elle part pour l’Ontario. Loin de la blâmer, je la comprends et je l’appuie. Plate pour nous? Oui. Mais traiter les médecins comme des personnes, c’est plus important
“It may also mean female doctors are less likely to be welcomed on a team if people feel you might hurt their collective efficiency or performance targets when you go on leave,” Dr. Vincent said.”
montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
Drimonis: How Bill 2 takes a greater toll on female physicians
Tying pay to "performance targets" doesn't account for pregnancy, maternity leave and potentially reduced hours after childbirth.
montrealgazette.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Because of course it does.
Je perds mon nouveau médecin dans les prochains mois. Elle part pour l’Ontario. Loin de la blâmer, je la comprends et je l’appuie. Plate pour nous? Oui. Mais traiter les médecins comme des personnes, c’est plus important
Je perds mon nouveau médecin dans les prochains mois. Elle part pour l’Ontario. Loin de la blâmer, je la comprends et je l’appuie. Plate pour nous? Oui. Mais traiter les médecins comme des personnes, c’est plus important
“It may also mean female doctors are less likely to be welcomed on a team if people feel you might hurt their collective efficiency or performance targets when you go on leave,” Dr. Vincent said.”
montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
Drimonis: How Bill 2 takes a greater toll on female physicians
Tying pay to "performance targets" doesn't account for pregnancy, maternity leave and potentially reduced hours after childbirth.
montrealgazette.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“It may also mean female doctors are less likely to be welcomed on a team if people feel you might hurt their collective efficiency or performance targets when you go on leave,” Dr. Vincent said.”
montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
“There’s still that hidden load that predominantly falls on women,” Lang told me. “Physicians aren’t exempt from that. When it comes to motherhood and pregnancy, some things just can’t be delegated.” montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
Drimonis: How Bill 2 takes a greater toll on female physicians
Tying pay to "performance targets" doesn't account for pregnancy, maternity leave and potentially reduced hours after childbirth.
montrealgazette.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“There’s still that hidden load that predominantly falls on women,” Lang told me. “Physicians aren’t exempt from that. When it comes to motherhood and pregnancy, some things just can’t be delegated.” montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
cultmtl.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
Reposted by Toula Drimonis
Toula nails it: "By preventing any hypothetical women forced to wear religious symbols from attaining an education or a job, the government is not only sabotaging their integration but also dooming them to an existence it claims it wants to protect them from: fully reliant on their oppressors."
Despite what the bill’s supporters claim, true secularism doesn’t seek the erasure of religion from the public sphere, but protects religious minorities from any state-imposed religion.
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
cultmtl.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Toula nails it: "By preventing any hypothetical women forced to wear religious symbols from attaining an education or a job, the government is not only sabotaging their integration but also dooming them to an existence it claims it wants to protect them from: fully reliant on their oppressors."
Reposted by Toula Drimonis
"Bill 9 is nothing more than ethnonationalism and femonationalism posing as a legitimate safeguard against religious fanaticism (mostly Islamic extremism) while claiming to enforce the protection of women’s rights and gender equality."
#Québec #laïcité
#Québec #laïcité
Despite what the bill’s supporters claim, true secularism doesn’t seek the erasure of religion from the public sphere, but protects religious minorities from any state-imposed religion.
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
cultmtl.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Despite what the bill’s supporters claim, true secularism doesn’t seek the erasure of religion from the public sphere, but protects religious minorities from any state-imposed religion.
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
cultmtl.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Despite what the bill’s supporters claim, true secularism doesn’t seek the erasure of religion from the public sphere, but protects religious minorities from any state-imposed religion.
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
Reposted by Toula Drimonis
Quebec’s Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#polqc
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#polqc
Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
cultmtl.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Quebec’s Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#polqc
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#polqc
“Most importantly, Bill 9 promotes and legislates a world view that sees difference as problematic and assimilation as a precondition for acceptance into Quebec society.” My latest for @cultmtl.com
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
cultmtl.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“Most importantly, Bill 9 promotes and legislates a world view that sees difference as problematic and assimilation as a precondition for acceptance into Quebec society.” My latest for @cultmtl.com
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/queb...
“To me, the implication of banning prayer spaces on campus is the essence of the racism of the CAQ. They have no idea what a prayer space on campus is there for. Most CAQ MPs have likely never visited one.” @nolore.bsky.social nails it.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates
Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).
noraloreto.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“To me, the implication of banning prayer spaces on campus is the essence of the racism of the CAQ. They have no idea what a prayer space on campus is there for. Most CAQ MPs have likely never visited one.” @nolore.bsky.social nails it.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
Reposted by Toula Drimonis
Anyone else? The day is still young and there’s quite the race to the bottom
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Anyone else? The day is still young and there’s quite the race to the bottom
Another win for the CAQ and Quebecers!
Hudson clinic to close in April, citing 'unacceptable' conditions under Quebec's Bill 2 montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Another win for the CAQ and Quebecers!
“The objective of our secularism law is not to go as far as possible (with rules). “We will do a law that is ambitious, but moderate.”
Calling any of this “moderate” is an insult to Quebecers’ intelligence.
montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
Calling any of this “moderate” is an insult to Quebecers’ intelligence.
montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
Quebec plans to ban street prayers as it moves to beef up secularism law
The law will oblige students and staff to keep their faces uncovered while they are within the education system, from daycare to university.
montrealgazette.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“The objective of our secularism law is not to go as far as possible (with rules). “We will do a law that is ambitious, but moderate.”
Calling any of this “moderate” is an insult to Quebecers’ intelligence.
montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
Calling any of this “moderate” is an insult to Quebecers’ intelligence.
montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
So glad Mathieu (and many others) are calling this out.
Le Québec a évolué. Certains discours politiques, eux, restent figés dans le temps.
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
Le Québec a évolué. Certains discours politiques, eux, restent figés dans le temps.
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
René Lévesque… l’identitaire ?
Ces derniers temps, quelque chose m’agace dans la manière dont le mot « identitaire » est revendiqué pour définir le nationalisme et le projet de souveraineté, certains commentateurs allant jusqu’à l’...
www.lapresse.ca
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
So glad Mathieu (and many others) are calling this out.
Le Québec a évolué. Certains discours politiques, eux, restent figés dans le temps.
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
Le Québec a évolué. Certains discours politiques, eux, restent figés dans le temps.
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
The struggle is real.
My Brain:
"Psst, here's a great idea for your book."
Me:
"I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it."
Morgan Freeman:
"But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made."
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky
"Psst, here's a great idea for your book."
Me:
"I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it."
Morgan Freeman:
"But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made."
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The struggle is real.
« Selon les documents consultés par Radio-Canada, un avis d’assujettissement aux droits de préemption a été déposé par la Ville de Montréal le 16 septembre dernier. »
So, the previous administration? ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
So, the previous administration? ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
Le cinéma Paradis sera acheté par Montréal
À l’abandon depuis 16 ans, l’ancien cinéma Paradis pourrait finalement être acheté par la Ville de Montréal. Le terrain est affiché au prix de 1 679 000 $.
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
« Selon les documents consultés par Radio-Canada, un avis d’assujettissement aux droits de préemption a été déposé par la Ville de Montréal le 16 septembre dernier. »
So, the previous administration? ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
So, the previous administration? ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
Les deux ordres professionnels sonnent l’alarme: Québec met ce droit en péril.
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...
Le Collège des médecins et le Barreau somment Québec de ne pas légiférer sur l’avortement
Les deux ordres professionnels sonnent l’alarme: Québec met ce droit en péril.
www.ledevoir.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Les deux ordres professionnels sonnent l’alarme: Québec met ce droit en péril.
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...
Many supporters of Bill 21 (and now Bill 94) insist secularism legislation aims “to protect women and gender equality.”
Trust me when I tell you, most don’t give a damn. Femonationalism & gendered Islamophobia are all the rage these days.
Just a tiny sample from this morning.👇
Trust me when I tell you, most don’t give a damn. Femonationalism & gendered Islamophobia are all the rage these days.
Just a tiny sample from this morning.👇
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Many supporters of Bill 21 (and now Bill 94) insist secularism legislation aims “to protect women and gender equality.”
Trust me when I tell you, most don’t give a damn. Femonationalism & gendered Islamophobia are all the rage these days.
Just a tiny sample from this morning.👇
Trust me when I tell you, most don’t give a damn. Femonationalism & gendered Islamophobia are all the rage these days.
Just a tiny sample from this morning.👇
Reposted by Toula Drimonis
Deeply converning how far to the the right caq is sliding. Theyre doing everything in their power to destroy peoples rights and their ability to challenge the goverbment.
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Deeply converning how far to the the right caq is sliding. Theyre doing everything in their power to destroy peoples rights and their ability to challenge the goverbment.
Reposted by Toula Drimonis
Il faut le dire de manière simple: Beaucoup de femmes voient leur croissance professionnelle entravée PARCE QU'ELLES SE COUVRENT LES CHEVEUX ET LE COU, un "crime" suffisant pour que le gouvernement légifère pour qu'on les exclut de professions dans lesquelles ce qu'on a sur la tête 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Il faut le dire de manière simple: Beaucoup de femmes voient leur croissance professionnelle entravée PARCE QU'ELLES SE COUVRENT LES CHEVEUX ET LE COU, un "crime" suffisant pour que le gouvernement légifère pour qu'on les exclut de professions dans lesquelles ce qu'on a sur la tête 1/2
“Violence against women is the CAQ government feigning support for women’s rights while enacting legislation that marginalizes and limits career opportunities based on women’s own choices.” cultmtl.com/2025/11/gend...
Gender-based violence is an everyday reality, and it starts with minimizing misogyny
As we highlight 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and the upcoming anniversary of the Montreal massacre, can we take a moment to reflect on all the different forms this violence takes?
cultmtl.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Violence against women is the CAQ government feigning support for women’s rights while enacting legislation that marginalizes and limits career opportunities based on women’s own choices.” cultmtl.com/2025/11/gend...