Montreal’s transit agency says city buses won’t be flashing the “Go! Canadiens Go!” NHL hockey slogan any time soon, despite getting the green light to do so by Quebec’s language watchdog. The electronic signs on each of the city’s more than 1,000 buses have to be updated manually.  Isabelle Tremblay, spokesperson for the Société de […]

Quebec’s language watchdog has changed its tune on whether it’s acceptable to use the word “go” to cheer on sports teams. In a new guideline posted in its online dictionary, the Office québécois de la langue française says that while “allez” is the preferred term, it’s now “partially legitimized” to use the English word to […]

LARRY’S RIVER — Despite early hopes that Guysborough County’s first French-language school would open its own premises by the end of last month, École Belle-Baie’s new campus in Larry’s River isn’t ready to receive students and teachers, and there’s no clear indication on when it will, according to a provincial government spokesperson. “The modulars at […]

Bilingual Quebec municipalities have lost their bid to have several parts of the government’s French-language reform suspended while their case makes its way through the courts. The communities asked the Quebec Superior Court last month to suspend the application of parts of Bill 96 — as the language reform is known — arguing it would […]

A group of 23 bilingual municipalities asked a Quebec Superior Court judge on Monday to suspend several portions of the province’s 2022 language reform, arguing that the application of the law will cause them serious and irreparable harm. Lawyer Julius Grey told the Montreal courtroom that the law contains measures that will have “enormous consequences” […]