Mark Indigenous languages decade by making Inuktitut official in Canada: Inuit UN rep
OTTAWA - When Lorraine Whitman's father, Chief Joseph Peters, asked for a cup of tea in his native Mi'kmaq, the care-home staff could not understand him.
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OTTAWA - When Lorraine Whitman's father, Chief Joseph Peters, asked for a cup of tea in his native Mi'kmaq, the care-home staff could not understand him.
OTTAWA — When Lorraine Whitman's father, Chief Joseph Peters, asked for a cup of tea in his native Mi'kmaq, the care-home staff could not understand him.
The president of the Inuit representative body for treaty rights and negotiations said it's only by recognizing Inuktitut as one of Canada's official languages that schools would receive guaranteed support and funding to teach in Inuktitut, as do English and French schools.
By James Rose Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Supreme Court of British Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit filed by suspended former Metis Nation British Columbia president Clara Morin Dal Col as an abuse of process and a collateral attack. “I’m happy that this part of the court case is over and MNBC is moving forward,” said MNBC Regional Director Deb Fisher. With Morin Dal Col expected to appeal, Fisher was unable to comment much further on the court’s decision. Morin Dal Col’s lawsuit concerned two motions passed by the MNBC board this past January; one of which temporaril...