Official Languages
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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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N.B. to open Secretariat of Official Languages to oversee province’s language actPremier Blaine Higgs says the secretariat will oversee the way the government carries out its duties under the Official Languages Act.CanadaDec 12, 2022
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Proposed changes to language law will create ‘barriers’ for Indigenous people: AFNThe Assembly of First Nations says the bill "continues the federal government's approach of privileging English and French while devaluing Indigenous languages."CanadaNov 29, 2022
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Bill C-13 coming under fire from anglophone communities in QuebecSome fear that the promotion and protection of French comes at the expense of English.CanadaNov 8, 2022
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B.C. leads provinces for residents whose primary language at home isn’t English or FrenchThe 2021 census found that 17.1 per cent of British Columbians predominantly speak a language that is not English or French within their household.CanadaAug 17, 2022
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N.B. premier delaying province’s response to Official Languages Act recommendationsNew Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has announced he is delaying the province's response to the recommendations to improve the Official Languages Act.PoliticsJun 30, 2022
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N.B. language commissioner ‘greatly disappointed’ in recommendation silenceThe report with several recommendations to amend the Official Languages Act has been left unaddressed by the government as the latest session closed, drawing critcism.CanadaJun 13, 2022
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N.B. legislature to begin translating 15-year debate backlog into both official languagesExtra funding for the legislative assembly means a 15-year period where the official record of house proceedings was not translated into both official languages will end.CanadaApr 29, 2022
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Air Canada CEO apologizes to parliamentary committee in first comments on poor FrenchRousseau said his comments last Nov. were "insensitive'' when he said that he managed to live 14 years in Montreal without speaking French, which is ``to the credit'' of the city.CanadaMar 21, 2022
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Almost 200 complaints lodged over new GG’s lack of French, language czar says'I have received a significant number of complaints about the appointment – close to 200 so far,' the languages watchdog said in an emailed statement.CanadaJul 14, 2021
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