Language and Culture

A motion to completely restore French Language Services Commissioner and proceed with a French Language University in Ontario has been defeated.

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An email response sent by P.E.I.'s Minister of Transportation Paula Biggar in which she told an Island resident, "I don't speak French" has led to a call for the minister to resign.

Speakers of the Tlingit language will be meeting in Alaska at a conference that is the first of its kind. People who speak different dialects of the same language will discuss ways to preserve and strengthen their 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.

A new study examined the Twitter language used in almost forty million tweets, and suggests that they mirrored Canadian and American national stereotypes.

A senator said he got an English-only emergency alert during September's severe tornadoes and has filed an official complaint, one of six the official languages commissioner received that month.

The border crossing at Cornwall, Ont. now has trilingual signage, adding Mohawk to the English and French in a collaborative effort to foster reconciliation.

With more students than ever enrolled at Island French schools, some parents say not enough is being done to support those who are learning French for the first time — and that's having a negative impact in the classroom.

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.