Etiket: linguistic
The valuable lessons of the Court of Appeal on linguistic rights, culture and religion
The unanimous judgment rendered by the Quebec Court of Appeal on February 29 relating to the constitutionality of the State Secularism Act (Secularism Act) has been the subject, to date,…
Linguistic diversity is an asset
In response to Yves-François Blanchet’s declaration on the existence of “two Quebecs”, Mr.me Drimonis, this week, in Montreal Gazette, said very eloquently and precisely that most of us here in…
Reasonable linguistic accommodations for Canadian and foreign businesses
What do the national carrier Air Canada and the American giant Otterbox have in common? Branches in several countries and the elegance of serving their customers in several languages. All…
Emergency (linguistic) at 911 | The duty
January 2024: a citizen of Montreal cannot make himself understood in French while using his phone to contact the firefighters. March 2023: I am experiencing the same situation, and I…
Parallel linguistic universes | The duty
Like a space-time portal opened between two universes, events highlight the coexistence, in the same place, of two contradictory realities. In the matter of the forced francization of 80% of…
Linguistic incident in Ottawa | A conservative’s “in English please” doesn’t get through
(Ottawa) Conservative MP Rachael Thomas drew the wrath of her colleagues after asking Minister Pascale St-Onge to answer her questions in English. Posted at 2:53 p.m. The elected Alberta representative…
Acfas Gilles-Paquet Prize: better understanding linguistic insecurity through the French-speaking world
This text is part of the special section Acfas prices University of Moncton professor Annette Boudreau has been working for around thirty years on the construction of identity in French-speaking…
Linguistic controversies | Top bosses of CBC and RCMP summoned to parliamentary committee
(Ottawa) The big bosses of CBC/Radio-Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were in turn summoned before a parliamentary committee on Wednesday to explain linguistic controversies. Published at 6:55…
A strange linguistic authoritarianism | The duty
The author is a professor of literature in Montreal, contributor to the journal Argument and essayist. He notably published These words that think for us (Liber, 2017) and Why do…
Nunavut between demographic vitality, ethnic diversity and linguistic challenge
In July 1983, The duty had been, under the pen by François Bellemare, the only French-language media to cover the third Inuit Circumpolar Conference, which was held in Iqaluit, in…
Decline of French: four little-known linguistic facts about Quebec
When it comes to the decline of French, the devil is in the details, and in the choice of indicators. The language data from the 2021 census was made public…
Opinion – Virtual reality to support the linguistic integration of immigrants in Montreal
This summer, The duty takes you on the side roads of university life. A proposal that is both scholarly and intimate, to be picked up like a postcard. Today, Kevin…
When will there be linguistic accountability?
The Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada submitted his annual report for the period from April 2022 to March 2023 on Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, Air Canada is the worst offender, with…
Montreal’s linguistic dilemma | The Press
How to make French the common language if everyone understands English, the language also of almost a million of our fellow citizens? Posted at 12:00 p.m. Mario Polese Emeritus Professor,…
Reform of the Official Languages Act | In defense of the rights of linguistic minorities
In response to Paul Journet’s column on Bill C-13 amending the Official Languages Act“The loss of control”, published on February 6 Posted at 1:00 p.m. Eva Ludwig President of the…
[Opinion] Linguistic drifts in the Canadian public service
Despite recent reports of the decline of French across Canada, the Canadian public service continues to be dominated by English. A large proportion of Anglophones perceive any attempt by the…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Linguistic crystal ball
You may have noticed that there are two schools of thought about the future of French in Quebec. The one that includes demographer Marc Termotte, author Frédéric Lacroix, mathematician Charles…
Anglos are not responsible for the linguistic disaster in Quebec
In a text that first appeared in the Toronto Star1and more recently translated into The duty2former political leader Jean-François Lisée takes malicious pleasure in quoting out of context the concerns…
[Opinion] Linguistic “racism” | The duty
While it is legitimate to demand that the federal government take Quebec’s language demands into account, there is no legitimacy in restricting it, as Mario Beaulieu does in a text…
[Chronique de Michel David] Linguistic dinosaurs
It was written in the sky that businesses under federal jurisdiction that operate in Quebec would not agree to comply with the requirements of the Charter of the French language.…