it was part of New France but later became a British colony after the Seven Years' War. As a result, the Canadian government recognized the languages of both colonizers: France and England. The Constitution Act of 1867 enshrined the use of both languages in Parliament and in federal courts. ...
Additionally, the federal department of Canadian Heritage, under Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie of Canada Mélanie Joly, is also undertaking efforts to study the modernization of the act, and has been accepting submissions from Canadians about how to best improve it. The...
OTTAWA — Keith Spicer, Canada's first commissioner of official languages, died Thursday in Ottawa at 89. Keith Spicer, Canada's first commissioner of official languages, has died at 89. Spicer speaks to reporters in the Commons, in Ottawa, March 26, 1975. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fr...
Canadian experience suggests a negative response, in that heavy government expenditures have not stopped assimilation. Between the censal years 1971 and 1981 there was continued linguistic concentration; French in Quebec and English in the other provinces. An alternative is territoriality; this has the...
road courses, and even a dirt track – and over five different provinces, making it truly NASCAR’s national series in Canada. The series receives national broadcast coverage on TSN and RDS, providing both French and English telecasts to Canadian fans. US fans can also watch by tuning in on...
Most electronic medical records used by family doctors are islands unto themselves, unconnected to the rest of the system, with data that are hard if not impossible to use to improve care. Other countries have ‘axed the fax,’ but faxing is the main way that Canadian primary care clinicians...
‘learner journal’. As students experienced the learning of different languages through different historical methodologies, they needed to reflect on their experience and how it felt to be a new learner of the language. They closely examined their emotions in terms of the difficulty of the task ...
Journal of Canadian StudiesThis was a federal program, created in 1970, which earmarked funds for minority language education in the provinces, though it did not apply initially to post-secondary institutions. Matthew Hayday, "Confusing and Conflicting Agendas: Federalism, Official Languages and the ...