Language

The Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada is rebuking Air Canada’s outgoing CEO for a condolence message he delivered almost entirely in English after a deadly plane crash in New York earlier this year.

Quebec’s Court of Appeal on Monday denied the government’s request to appeal a judgment ordering Élections Québec to send bilingual voter reminder cards in English and French ahead of the general election.

Élections Québec said it will not change its practice of instructing workers to limit their use of English at polling stations, despite a formal request from lawyers to suspend it.

Lawyers have sent a formal letter to Élections Québec and the Attorney General demanding that the independent electoral agency retract the practice of instructing workers to limit their use of English at polling stations.

The Quebec government is seeking to appeal a ruling that ordered Élections Québec to send out voter reminder cards in English and French for the October general election by suspending the province’s language law, Bill 96.

An Élections Québec poll worker told CTV News that they were instructed to speak English with voters only in certain situations ahead of voting in Quebec’s general election.

Quebec Superior Court ordered Elections Quebec to send reminder cards in both French and English. The court also ruled that it would not force the agency to resend the original voter information cards, which were sent in French only.

Students at LaSalle College in Montreal are still waiting to hear when – or if – the fall semester will resume.

Electors in Quebec will be receiving their election guides and voter information cards in French only this election due to the language law, known as Bill 96, according to Elections Quebec.

Anglophones have a place within the Parti Québécois (PQ), the party that will solve Quebec’s 'decline' for the benefit of English- and French-speakers, Paul St. Pierre Plamondon says.

Young Quebec anglophones earn less and have higher unemployment than their francophone counterparts, according to new statistics from PERT, the Provincial Employment Roundtable.

There will be no English-language debate among the leaders of Quebec’s political parties prior to the October general election.

More than 11,000 complaints were filed with Quebec’s language watchdog last fiscal year, setting another record for the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF).

The Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) is committing to invest an additional $380 million over four years to promote and protect the French language, if it forms the government after Oct. 5.

The Quebec government says it has reached a new partnership with the province’s English-language universities aimed at increasing the percentage of out-of-province students who graduate with a functional knowledge of French.