Quebec invests $1.5 million to promote French language in Montreal - Montreal
Although the metropolis is officially a French-speaking city, it's where English is used the most in Quebec and officials want to change that.
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Although the metropolis is officially a French-speaking city, it's where English is used the most in Quebec and officials want to change that.
The uproar over a Montreal woman’s ordeal before she could get care is troubling, but there's more to it than a linguistic issue.
Those living near the site who spoke with Global News say one of their main concerns was an increase in traffic and congestion in the area.
MONTREAL -- A new final word has come down over Bill 99, the twenty-year-old law meant to enshrine Quebec’s right to self-determination and, potentially, separation. But the appeal court ruling on Friday stepped away from allowing any present-day judge to give a final word at all, saying politics is too unpredictable. In short, Quebec Court of Appeal judge Robert Mainville wrote that Bill 99 is just fine—unless it’s used in the future in some unforseeable way, such as unilaterally separating from Canada, in which case the courts of the future will need to deal with that for thems...
MONTREAL -- The Quebec organization with a mission to promote and defend the French language is calling the Legault government's plan to cap English CEGEP spots a "false good idea." The Mouvement Quebec francais opposes Francois Legault's plan to establish quotas at English CEGEPs to resolve the language problem at the college level. "More broadly, the MQF has had enough of the endless wanderings and procrastination of the CAQists on the linguistic file and especially on the crying issue of the anglicization of higher education in Quebec," the MQF said in a news release. The MQF added...