Language Politics
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Want English services in Quebec? Prepare to attest in ‘good faith’ that you qualifyNew provisions under Quebec's language law reform are now in effect. But one of the new changes -- and how it's being enforced -- has left many people scratching their heads.CanadaJun 3, 2023
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Canada developing new immigration policy to attract French-speaking people, workersThe plan says Canada aims to recruit from Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas and attract bilingual workers to francophone minority communities.PoliticsApr 26, 2023
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Economy and identity: Quebec premier delivers inaugural speech of 43rd legislatureQuebec Premier François Legault says the French language is the foundation of Quebec and his objective is to stop what he called the decline of the language.PoliticsNov 30, 2022
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Quebec language reform aims at capping English CEGEP enrolmentBill 96 will give priority to anglophone students. It also should even the playing field for anglophones struggling to get accepted in the English CEGEPS.CanadaMay 13, 2021
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Parti Québécois wants to toughen up law governing language in the workplacePascal Bérubé is proposing that employers present poof whenever they ask English or another language as a requirement to obtain a position.CanadaFeb 12, 2020
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Quebecers protest Ford government’s cuts to French language servicesMore than 40 communities across Ontario plan to hold rallies over the course of the weekend to protest the cuts to French-language services.PoliticsDec 1, 2018
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Greenfield Park borough councillors barred from speaking at Canada Day celebrationsControversy is once again brewing between Greenfield Park and Longueuil after two borough councillors say they've been barred from speaking at their borough's Canada Day festivities.CanadaJun 23, 2016
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Montreal activists persuade Subway Quebec to add English to its menusTwo Montreal activists have been pushing national and international companies to install bilingual signs for years.CanadaNov 11, 2015
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