Language and Culture

Winnipeggers gathered on the Seine River Saturday for the second annual Rendez-Vous Revyayr Seine, a community paddle event celebrating Métis culture and history.

Municipal Muzzle Awards cite 1997 bylaw banning blasphemous language at parks and beaches

The festival showcased 15 pavilions across different counties/regions, with food, performances and more.

Young Canadian artists are expressing their layered identities through the power of art.  

Vancouver's Trutch Street is now officially šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street. Not everyone is happy about the outcome or the process.

CBC celebrates the rich cultures, stories, and spirit of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples on June 21

Space, land, winter — these are the overwhelming realities of Canada, and they have shaped who we are

New research shows that reviving Indigenous languages may do more than preserve culture—it may also improve public health.

On June 1st, Canadian politician Steven Guilbeault (PC/ MP)  honored Portuguese Heritage Month, celebrated in June across Canada, with an official statement highlighting the rich history, culture, and contributions of Portuguese Canadians. 

Businesses must now comply with new rules on commercial signage in French in Quebec, as provisions of Bill 96 come into force Sunday. These new measures apply to outdoor commercial signage, trademarks on products and the use of French within businesses. 

It was an historic moment at the Bora Laskin Law School graduation earlier this spring. Co-valedictorian Cassandra Spade gave her speech in Anishnaabemowin.

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have live translation devices either in the works or already on the market. But tech watchers say these developments raise larger questions about how AI tools are changing language learning and translation.

A national celebration of Indigenous languages through music is the focus of the documentary Rhythms of the Land, which will air July 12 across Canada on CTV and CTV2 networks.Featuring performances by Indigenous artists from across the country, the film is an initiative of the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages (OCIL) and celebrates the strength and revitalization of Indigenous language.

Food is the first step for many newcomers adopting new life in Canada. And in a city shaped by global migration, food is more than sustenance.

Church Street, a pedestrian-only retail hub and home to the city's Church Street Marketplace, will be called Canada Street until Labour Day.

Canada’s official languages commissioner is calling on the Treasury Board to implement a “monitoring mechanism” to protect the language rights of employees as the federal government introduces new language requirements for supervisors.

Thousands of people filled Swangard Stadium in Burnaby on Saturday for the 2025 Pinoy Festival — a daylong celebration of Filipino culture that organizers say is the largest of its kind in Canada.

A new set of Canada Post stamps set to release later this summer will honour and recognize three long-time Elders from three separate First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities. All three have helped preserve their community's culture and language.

It’s been nine years since the CBC North Indigenous Language Archives (ILA) project began its substantial and ongoing effort to preserve decades of cultural memory through the digitization of radio recordings.

As Canada’s classrooms grow more linguistically diverse, a new developmental language disorder assessment is breaking away from the one-size-fits-all approach. Reeti Meenakshi Rohilla shows us how this shift could better serve kids who speak different first languages.

Western Canada’s largest Ukrainian festival set up in Borden Park on Saturday.

Quebec's language watchdog asked for multiple updates on the agency's efforts to remove the word, and kept the complaint open for nine months until 'go' had been scrubbed from more than 1,000 city buses in Montreal, according to emails obtained by The Canadian Press.

At a Mezza Lebanese Kitchen restaurant, Tony Nahas demonstrates slicing from a spit of roasting chicken much as his father did — with a razor-sharp knife.