Slang

• Toronto slang on the rise thanks to city’s growing pop culture relevance, professor says

  Derek Denis, assistant professor at University of Toronto Mississauga, has been studying the prominence of Toronto's unique slang lexicon for the past two years.

  Canada

  Oct 13, 2019
• 85-year-old MLA gets into the slang game touting Liberal leader’s ‘turnt right up’ performance

  Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan has some advice for premier John Horgan: "check yourself, before you wreck yourself."

  Politics

  Nov 9, 2018
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• Binge-watch, face-palm among the 1,000 new words added to Merriam-Webster

  From sports, tech, medicine and slang, this is one of the dictionary's most significant additions to its word bank.

  News

  Feb 7, 2017
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• Facebook wants to detect new slang terms before they become cool

  Facebook wants to be the coolest and most relevant social network on the web.

  Tech

  Mar 10, 2016
• Yukon government pulls ads urging residents to get ‘the D’ after social media backlash

  Yukon health and social services want residents to get more of "the D," but social media users had different ideas.

  Canada

  Jan 26, 2016
• Chilliwack parent outraged over ‘vulgar’ sex education material

  One Chilliwack parent was in complete shock when her 13-year-old son came home with materials from a sex education class, which she says can only be described as pornographic.

  Jun 1, 2015
• Mayor Rob Ford was using Jamaican patois, swear words in video rant

  Just what was Rob Ford saying in the video recently uploaded to YouTube?

  Politics

  Jan 22, 2014