A nation consists of a people sharing a historic connection to a territory. The people living in that territory may speak one or more languages. Essential to the idea of nationhood is the will of a ...

Do Not Read This Column in English (unless you are a “historic anglophone”). First, convert to French with Google Translate, then you may read it. Merci. I often try to tune out minor Quebec language ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minister of the French Language Jean-François Roberge holds a press conference concerning the Plan for the French language in ...

Last Monday, Premier Christine Fréchette gave a speech to a Montreal business audience in which she pledged to set a “different tone” in relations with English-speaking Quebecers after years of ...

Language issues in Canada regularly spark controversy and fuel polarizing debates, which can then be echoed and amplified in the media and by citizens. Following the accident in March at LaGuardia ...

Montreal's often baffling, unilingual parking signs have scared many motorists from coming to eat in the Plateau, Josh Freed writes. So let’s frighten people out of using English the same way, by ...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has introduced a bill that would force people seeking training in fields such as machining, cabinet making and professional cooking to study in French. The legislation ...