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Life in a City Where English Is the Minority Language

August 16, 2025IAN AUSTENComments Off on Life in a City Where English Is the Minority Language

Some thoughts from Quebec City’s English-speaking community.

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A Haven for English in the Most French of North American Cities

August 11, 2025August 11, 2025Ian Austen and Nasuna Stuart-UlinComments Off on A Haven for English in the Most French of North American Cities

For Quebec City’s tiny English-speaking community, a former jail turned library serves as an essential sanctuary in a metropolis where the domination of French is enshrined in law.

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A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

July 15, 2025STEPHEN CASTLEComments Off on A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.

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Studying at an English-Speaking University? In Quebec, That May Cost Extra.

September 29, 2024September 29, 2024Vjosa Isai and Nasuna Stuart-UlinComments Off on Studying at an English-Speaking University? In Quebec, That May Cost Extra.

Quebec says a new policy to charge some students higher tuition at top universities in Montreal is needed to preserve the province’s French identity.

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An English Town Drops Apostrophes From Street Signs. Some Aren’t Happy.

May 10, 2024May 10, 2024Jenny GrossComments Off on An English Town Drops Apostrophes From Street Signs. Some Aren’t Happy.

The move has prompted some resistance, with someone writing an apostrophe on a sign for St. Mary’s Walk. “What’s next?” one North Yorkshire resident asked. “Commas?”

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Jamaica Weighs Making Patois Official Language As British Ties Fray

October 11, 2023October 11, 2023Simon Romero and Alejandro CegarraComments Off on Jamaica Weighs Making Patois Official Language As British Ties Fray

A push is underway to make Jamaica’s Patois an official language, on par with English, as the country weighs cutting ties to the British monarchy.

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Keith Spicer, Canada’s Offbeat Envoy of Reconciliation, Dies at 89

August 31, 2023SAM ROBERTSComments Off on Keith Spicer, Canada’s Offbeat Envoy of Reconciliation, Dies at 89

As the country’s first commissioner of official languages, he oversaw a dual-language mandate. He later led a task force to listen to Canadians’ complaints.

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Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?

June 19, 2023June 20, 2023Rachel E. GrossComments Off on Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?

The names of Nazi-era doctors are still found on diseases and body parts. By expunging them, will doctors forget lessons of the past?

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Duong Tuong, Who Opened Western Works to Vietnamese Readers, Dies at 90

March 7, 2023March 7, 2023SETH MYDANSComments Off on Duong Tuong, Who Opened Western Works to Vietnamese Readers, Dies at 90

He translated works by Proust, Nabokov, Tolstoy and Emily Brontë into Vietnamese, and a classic Vietnamese poem, ‘The Tale of Kieu,’ into English.

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In Quebec, the Independence Movement Gives Way to a New Nationalism

October 2, 2022NORIMITSU ONISHIComments Off on In Quebec, the Independence Movement Gives Way to a New Nationalism

In Monday’s election, residents of a town that was once a stronghold of the independence movement are expected to back the province’s popular premier, who has embraced a nationalism based on French Québécois identity.

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