French-only voter mailouts for Quebec election challenged in court

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Lincoln: Amid wavering Liberal support, beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing

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Fréchette defends French-only voter mailings Élections Québec tried to avoid

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Hanes: Quebec’s French-only voter information cards undermine democracy

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Une municipalité de l’Outaouais dénonce l’absence d’un débat des chefs en anglais

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Here’s why there will be no English-language debate before the fall Quebec election

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Quebec will not remove English content from government websites, Roberge says

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New language commissioner ‘very much engaged’ in protecting anglophone education

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Anglophones et nationalistes cherchent une « voie de passage »

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Elections Quebec Controversy how weak English Lobby has become

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Élections Québec says it’s too late to print voter documents in English

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Five takeaways from the Quebec leaders’ debate

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November 20, 2020

Revising the Official Languages Act: Will History Repeat Itself?

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Canada’s Official Languages Act was made law in 1969, was substantially amended in 1988 and is now overdue for an overhaul. As the issue of language rights re-emerged in the final weeks of 2020, it was obvious that many elements of the debate have changed since 1988, but, as Royal Military College professor Stéphanie Chouinard writes, the politics at all levels remain remarkably consistent.

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