Language and Culture

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

A Vancouver Island professor has created an Indigenous languages cheat-sheet to help communities in B.C. incorporate words and greetings into their vocabulary.

With less than two weeks to go until New Brunswickers go to the polls, the divisive issue of what languages political leaders speak is once again rearing its head in Canada’s only officially bilingual province.

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.

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The news that B.C. is not alone among the provinces in struggling to find teachers to teach French immersion programs is not just bad news for parents wanting to see their children become bilingual. . .