Franco-Ontarians protest cuts to French services by the Ontario government in Ottawa on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018.
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Ontario’s newest university serving a diverse francophone community will focus on the community’s strengths and contribute to major contemporary issues.
The Gender Tracker Tool is used to see how well Canadian media is representing women’s voices. This stock photo depicts an example of journalists interviewing a female source.
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The Gender Gap Tracker uses computational linguistics techniques to analyze how women are mentioned and quoted in Canadian media.
Luiz Capitulino,11, and his mom Sheyla Do Vale of Brazil embrace after becoming official Canadians during a citizenship ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017.
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The language learning approach called “plurilingualism” empowers people to draw on many languages and cultural modes of communicating.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is seen in this September 2018 photo. Higgs won a minority government, and must confront both language tensions and economic hardship in his province.
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New Brunswick’s language politics have vaulted ahead of its teetering economic crisis to potentially become the central political issue in 2019.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford arrives to speak in Toronto on Dec. 12, 2018.
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Ontario’s premier is drawing faulty parallels between Franco-Ontarians and Anglo-Quebecers when it comes to the services available to them in each province.
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya being sworn in for a seventh consecutive term on the 6th November 2018.
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Ordinary people are being deeply affected by the continued violence tearing apart Cameroon.
The view from the Montréal office of La Conversation Canada.
A unique model of journalism based on academic research and fact-based analysis is now being published in both of Canada’s official languages
Québec Premier Francois Legault, left, exchanges hockey jerseys with Ontario Premier Doug Ford at Queens Park, in Toronto on Nov. 19, 2018. Ford’s recent cuts to francophone services in Ontario haven’t spawned nearly the media outrage that Québec language moves have.
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To read English-Canadian media, you would think that Québec’s anglophones are under greater threat than the rest of the country’s minority language communities. Why the selective outrage?
French President Emmanuel Macron (C- bottom) poses with participants of the “Tech for Planet” event in Paris, on December 12, 2017, ahead of the One Planet Summit.
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In a recent Twitter post, French president Macron reminded the world that the word “entrepreneur” is in fact French.
Frantz Fanon challenged traditional views about mental illness.
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Frantz Fanon recognised mental illness as a real experience and offered an understanding of it being influenced by society and culture.
Awkward: Rwandan President Paul Kagame visits his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.
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After the 1994 genocide, Rwanda pivoted towards the Anglophone world. But not entirely.
Women teachers can be powerful role models for girls.
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Female teachers can act as role models who enhance girls’ motivation and learning outcomes.
Both first- and second-generation immigrants in British Columbia and Ontario outperformed their non-immigrant counterparts in science literacy, in the 2015 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment.
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First and second-generation immigrants perform well in many Canadian provinces that take an “accommodation” approach.
Battle of St. Eustache, December 14,1837: Rear view of St. Eustache church and scattering of insurgents during the 1837 rebellion in Saint-Eustache, a city in Québec. Ink and watercolor on paper.
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Why is a memorial to 29 Francophone men who were executed by the British government as well as to 58 men who were exiled to Australia in 1838 hidden away in a Montreal cemetery?
Medieval teaching scene.
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Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living in Britain also spoke French.
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But the British soon got the hang of profanity.
Some Cameroonians don’t believe Anglophone regions need an independent state of their own.
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Anglophones have long complained that their language and culture are marginalised. They say if this doesn’t change, they must be granted independence.
The influence of countries in francophone Africa, like Ivory Coast, have shifted how universities think about the French language.
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French is no longer taught as a European language representative of “French” culture in South Africa. New modes of teaching, learning and research speak to an inclusive Africanist agenda.
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West African leaders have nursed the idea of a common currency for the sub-region since the turn of the century. But conditions for member countries to make this happen appear unattainable.
People hold up a sign as part of a demonstration where a teepee was erected on Parliament Hill to protest Canada Day.
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Canadian celebrations are often controversial, but challenges to Canada 150 may actually indicate our desire to perfect and improve this country.