From CBC News.

Gurbaj Singh Multani is shooting hoops in his school playground, doing what 11-year-olds do. Then his kirpan — the symbolic dagger of his Sikh faith — falls to the pavement and his life gets complicated. His principal issues an ultimatum: hand over his kirpan or leave school.

Host Falen Johnson and journalist Sonali Karnick take us through the court battle that defined his teenage years — Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys — and the angry protests, racist slurs and fierce debate about religious freedom in Quebec that followed him all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

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