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There will be consultations on the bill this fall. Among the proposals is the expansion of Quebec's language law, Bill 101, to federally-chartered institutions like banks. This could potentially include English media websites, as the federal government's proposed Bill C-10 could conceivably, through the CRTC, cover and censor online Canadian media content. Bill 101 will apply to businesses with 25 employees and more. A permit can be suspended or revoked for non-respect of the language law, and a provincial contract can be terminated as well. Unions would be in charge of protecting French-lang...

MONTREAL -- Camille Lévesque is perhaps a rarity; she's a perfectly bilingual Quebecer. She spent her early years in Toronto due to her father's work, but attended a French elementary school. When the family moved back to Quebec in 2007, Lévesque said there was no question that she would be attending a French-language high school. "My parents were very adamant about speaking French every day," she said. "But ultimately, when it came to picking a CEGEP, Dawson had a strong science program." Lévesque attended Dawson College from 2012 to 2014, studying health sciences. "The science worl...

The Quebec government presented a major reform to language laws Thursday morning, aiming to strengthen the use of French in the province.

The Virginia High School League announced this week the continuation of the InsideOut Initiative program.

Common language has been in the CSP’s toolbox for about 40 years Now, with virtualisation, 5G, IoT, cloud and so on, it’s needed more than ever IDC, sponsored by iconectiv, has just launched a white paper on why it’s important In the late 19th Century a chap called Zamenhof came up with the idea of ‘constructing’ a global second language - Esperanto -  which everyone could learn so that they could converse with people who didn’t share their own, be they primary speakers of English, French or one of the 832 ‘living languages’ of Papua New Guinea.  Great idea, but enthusiasm f...