The time has come for Quebec to get over its collective identity crisis and adapt to the realities of a secular, pluralistic society, says a provincial commission's report on the thorny issue of reasonable accommodation. "The foundations of collective life in Quebec are not in a critical situation," said the Bouchard-Taylor commission, in its final report on the state of so-called reasonable accommodation of religious and cultural beliefs. "What we are facing, instead, is the need to adapt," and the government must play a leading role in establishing better guidelines for "interculturalism," concluded the authors, sociologist Gérard Bouchard and philosopher Charles Taylor, in their 300-page report. "The report is not putting any guilty feelings on anybody," Bouchard said in French at a news conference in Montreal on Thursday, following the document's release. "Rather, our approach was to identify problems, issues ... evaluate the very nature,...
The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said on Friday (August 1) a basic inspection plan for India met safeguards standards and talks had begun on a system of extended checks, boosting prospects for a...
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New Delhi, September 4 (ANI): India on Wednesday refused to be drawn into a controversy on a ‘Washington Post’ report over its agreement on civil nuclear cooperation with the United States....
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The Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's victory in the confidence vote sparked impromptu celebrations at Congress party headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday (July 23)...
When it comes to outer space, Edgar Mitchell knows what he speaks of. As part of the Apollo 14 moon mission in 1971 Mitchell and Alan Shepard walked on the lunar surface for a record nine and a...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, told a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba that he's willing to face the...
The U.N. climate conference opens in Bali with delegates trying to work out a viable update to the Kyoto protocol. MOREINFO: Climate change talks have been bogged down in recent years by arguments...
New Delhi, September 5 (ANI): Washington Post's report stating that a nuclear test by New Delhi will terminate the India-US nuclear deal has created a stir in the Indian political circle....