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Heads up, #InstitutionalFood and #SchoolFood researchers! Can a breakfast be secular? Does lunch have a religion? If you serve halal or kosher food to someone without their knowing it’s halal or kosher, is it? Here’s to injecting a little critical food studies knowledge into our houses of government… Take a look at these two articles on CBC.com and weigh in with your thoughts!

“New secularism bill to ban prayer in schools, restrict offering of religion-based meals” (Nov. 24, 2025): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-21-expansion-quebec-9.6990951

“Quebec's new secularism bill targets daycare workers, prayer spaces and religious meals” (Nov. 27, 2025): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-secularism-bill-9.6993278

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#InstitutionalFood
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#Religion
#Secularism
#Halal
#Haram
#Kosher
#Treyf
#CBC
#Québec
#NationalSchoolFoodProgram

photo: David Szanto

Close-up of an Osterizer beehive blender filled with scraps of paper, sitting on a meeting room table with a screen, flipcharts, chairs and other tables in the background.

A git #Shabbos (^_^)

Upcoming: a #treyf #shabbos #dinner shrimps and squid tubes w/ black (sepia) spaghetti in a spicy-garlicky white wine tomato sauce.

Mise en Place arrangement of ingredients. Mini glass bowls with lemon juice, chopped garlic and one with spices de Provence, small glass of white wine, bundle of black sepia spaghetti, small white bowl with chopped tomatoes, 5 shrimps and 5 sliced squid tubes on a wooden cutting board, one nearly empty tube with Harissa and one with tomato paste.

I saw treyf restaurants, Christian shuls, #Christaica shops, and even a special #Christian #market where they buy their special #treyf #food. I asked if we can go into the market and my dad said yes.

The Christian market had many interesting and #exotic #foods for Christian people to eat. The Christian market had foods imported all the way from Vatican! I saw packages that had meat and cheese in the same package and my dad said that it is real meat and not vegetarian!

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