Language and Culture

A quick comparative analysis of Amazon Transcribe and Google Speech with respect to certain common features.

Herbert Marx has published a book called My Story, which offers tantalizing details about what was going on behind the scenes in those tumultuous years.

Indigenous languages across Canada are in peril, another legacy of the residential school system. Are schools doing enough to help save them?

A broad but even-handed discussion of bilingualism in New Brunswick is needed to address the persistently divisive topic of language, according to MLAs from three of the four parties represented in the legislative assembly.

Advocates in B.C. say much more needs to be done to invigorate Indigenous languages in a province that is largely English speaking.

When the next ice storm, wildfire or terror attack happens, Canadians who are deaf or hard of hearing will be in greater peril than others because most public notification systems are not accessible to them.

Gov. Bill Walker has declared an emergency for Alaska Native languages, aiming to promote and preserve all 20 recognized Indigenous languages in the state.

In B.C. schools, there are nine provincially approved second-language programs. One group is pushing to make Farsi the next one included.

For years, the province has struggled to recruit French teachers — both immersion and core. The director of strategic policy at the ministry of education cites the increase in popularity of immersion as one reason.

How Quebec's music industry has remained strong, prolific, and diverse, while also being unapologetically Québécois

The federal government’s intention to protect Indigenous languages through new legislation might not get the support of a prominent Inuit organization. “There’s a risk that it can end up as symbolic legislation,” said Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, an organization representing 60,000 Inuit in Canada. “If it is symbolic, the Inuit will not …

Books have been challenged for profanity, blasphemy, and portrayals of witchcraft.

Twenty-five students at the Alberta College of Art and Design's Lodgepole Centre are studying the at-risk Dené language.

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"My language, my life and my culture are not being respected," says Jean-Charles Piétacho over translation services being available only for French, not Innu, for his testimony.

Chinook Wawa was once spoken by more than 100,000 people, from Alaska to the California border, for more than 100 years.

Tehmina Younus' son Bilal has a speech disorder called childhood apraxia, which severely limits his ability to communicate. She says getting him into an English-language school will help, but her requests for an exemption to Bill 101 have been rejected.

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Wemindji's language coordinator says that for years, she felt as if she was 'fighting a monster alone.' But that's changed in recent months, with a resurgence in interest in preserving and promoting the Cree language.

SOUTHBRIDGE – Barbara J. Martel remembers when she was a young child seeing the striking monument with the bronze bust of Felix Gatineau at the corner of Main and South streets when she attended the former Notre Dame School.By her early teens she had learned more about her family history, giving her a deeper appreciation of Mr. Gatineau, her great-grandfather and a French-Canadian immigrant who settled in town as a young man in 1877. He later became one of the area’s most