‘The residential school policy was intended to kill Indigenous languages, and it still arguably continues under the current educational system,’ says scholar Lorena Sekwan Fontaine. Photo submitted.

A five-year, $15-million funding commitment from the federal government will help give the Michif language "a chance to survive and to prosper," the Manitoba Métis Federation says. The federation and ...

A team of bureaucrats in Quebec’s health ministry has issued a 31-page directive spelling out the “exceptional” circumstances in which English is allowed to be spoken in hospitals and other medical ...

A Calgary anti-human trafficking organization has translated its educational resources into three Indigenous languages to mark National Indigenous Languages Day on March 31. Now speakers of Plains ...

Canada sits right next door, shares the world’s longest undefended border with the United States, and speaks mostly the same language. That proximity creates an assumption among many Americans that ...