Language and Culture

A look back at 2025 through Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang, from 6-7 and brainrot to aura farming, and what these phrases reveal about youth culture.

The McCord Stewart Museum is showcasing the history of Montreal’s food scene from the 1960s until today. The On the Menu – Montreal: A Restaurant Story exhibition will continue until October 2026.

The holiday season is a time for Lennox Island residents to come together and celebrate their community and their culture. Students in the First Nation community recently held a bilingual Christmas concert, and it was a special night for many. CBC’s Delaney Kelly explains.

The Society for Canadian English, which includes Queen's University, has helped create Canada's first word of the year, maplewash.

Still, the agency is in talks with the Office québécois de la langue française and the Ministry of the French Language about the possibility of adding some English.

New Brunswick’s Jeremy Dutcher talked musical heritage with the Homalco on Quadra Island

Quebec has passed a new law that will impose minimum French-language content rules on digital platforms like Spotify and Netflix, but already industry groups are expressing concern and some experts say it could even be unconstitutional.

Anne T. Donahue and Peter Knegt fête the homegrown talent that lit up their years.

Long hidden from public view, the inner workings of OQLF inspections and the profiles of its inspectors are revealed in internal documents obtained by The Gazette.

Handsome Tiger and Neesha Hothi joined Charlie Wu at the Jade Music Fest to discuss cultural advancement in this sector.

Once you know the language, how we were raised and cared for, that will always be in you.” 

After years of lobbying from the Italian government, a UN agency has now declared the country's cooking culture, as a whole, is a part of humanity's intangible cultural heritage. Gianfranco Junior Spagnolo, chef de cuisine at Vancouver restaurant Cantina di Luigi, says he's proud of the designation. Daniel Attoni, the restaurant's sous chef, says there is a need for the family to be more involved in cooking.

The community president says celebrating Jewish culture is important during these challenging times.

Clarence D. Snowboy is lending his voice to a new partnership between JBCCS and Language Foundry to create online Cree-language learning games. The project is designed to help learners connect with — and preserve — the Cree language.

Today on Commotion, culture critics Sandy Hudson and Matt Amha join guest host Radheyan Simonpillai to explain why this discussion around who gets to celebrate and monetize a local culture is more complicated than it might sound.

It’s well established that children have an easier time learning second languages. In recent years, scientists have studied whether being bilingual may help ward off the memory lapses and reduced mental sharpness that come with an aging brain. Much of the research on the potential benefit involved people who spoke two or more languages for most of their lives, not older adult learners.

Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents, including the 2025 federal budget.

The two organizations aim to use community-driven language education to preserve cultural knowledge

Whether to teach a child two languages at once is a question many parents in Quebec face. A new Concordia University study challenges myths about language mixing and weighs in on the psychology of early bilingualism.

Efforts to revitalize the Mi’kmaw language have been growing on Lennox Island First Nation through multiple initiatives in the community. 

This week’s episode of The Bridge zeroes in on the people shaping culture –  on social media. Social media is a huge driving force in culture that we aren’t often thinking about or taking seriously.  A new Canadian association of digital content creators and influencers was just established to push for standards in the field.