New Brunswick is Canada’s only officially bilingual province. That’s why a recent Supreme Court decision on whether the province’s lieutenant-governor should be bilingual makes perfect sense.
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Is the new Official Languages Act unfair? Three constitutional experts say that those who claim it is are distorting Canadian realities.
Making South African Sign Language official is more symbolic than useful in the lives of a very marginalised community.
If returning to in-person instruction is truly impossible for public health reasons, policy makers must make large financial expenditures on quality and accessible distance education.
Research has shown that African immigrants in South Africa refrain from speaking their own languages and try to speak local languages to blend in.
Forensic linguistics can play a valuable role in interpreting evidence.
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Full Professor, Research Chair in Language Rights, Faculty of Law | Professeur titulaire, Chaire de recherche Droits et enjeux linguistiques, Faculté de droit, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral research fellow (Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law), University of the Western Cape
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Associate professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Full Professor / Professeur titulaire, Faculty of Law, Université de Moncton
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Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Law, Université de Moncton
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Associate professor, Department of Political Science / Professeure agrégée, Département de science politique, Queen's University, Ontario
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Vice-Dean and Full Professor, Common Law Section, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor Emeritus, University of the Free State
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Part-time lecturer, University of Johannesburg