OUR LANGUAGE RIGHTS BIWEEKLY
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Indigenous Languages

• Make Inuktitut official language in Canada, says Inuit rep on UN task - CTV News - Aluki Kotierk, Inuit representative on a UNESCO task force set up to mark a decade of Indigenous languages.
• Mark Indigenous languages decade by making Inuktitut official in Canada: Inuit UN rep The president of the Inuit representative body for treaty rights and negotiations said that Inuktitut should be recognized as one of Canada's official languages.
• Support for Indigenous languages is key to reconciliation 'The suppression of language was a key feature of Canada's longstanding policy of assimilation of Indigenous peoples.
• Research paper argues Canadian Taxpayers Federation pushed 'anti-Indigenous political- Moreover, the researchers argued, “the CTF has broadly resisted changes in language around how to describe Indigenous peoples.

Francophone

• Sarnia designated for French-language services - Sarnia  will become the 27th area providing French-language services in Ontario, which is home to the largest French-speaking community in Canada.
• The Daily — Languages of work of employees by organization size, 2016 - Today, Statistics Canada presents an analysis of a new data linkage between the 2016 Census of Population and the Canadian Employer–Employee languages.
• At 400, French playwright Molière's satirical eye is as sharp as ever in the age of the internet - Canada's two official languages may, unofficially, be dubbed the language of Shakespeare and la langue de Molière.

Language Rights, Revitalization and Advocacy

• Giving new life to a dying language in Canada The nine students of Taigh Sgoile na Drochaide – or the Bridge Schoolhouse in English – represent the future of Gaelic fluency in Canada.
• Sask. Rivers outlines recent efforts to meet TRC's calls to action  - “It is important to acknowledge and recognize racism and inequities and suppression and colonialism. It’s important just to strictly acknowledge that, but that’s not enough."
• City of Terrace looks to include Indigenous language, culture when naming streets -- The City of Terrace is moving forward to include First Nations people, culture, and languages when naming streets in the future.
• Project aims to support revitalization of Indigenous languages -- The Supporting Indigenous Language Revitalization project will support Indigenous nations and communities in their languages.
• A very rich language': Iqaluit woman begins teaching Inuktitut online | CBC News  "It's actually a very rich language — it helps you to really understand ... languages decade by making Inuktitut official in Canada".

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