language

Tom Mulcair: Bill 96 deserves much more than nodding approval of leaders in Ottawa. Failure to defend rights comes at a cost to our unity and well-being as a country.

From social distancing to variants of concern, pandemic-specific terms have become part of our everyday vernacular

The Oxford English Dictionary is adding pandemic-related terminology to its repositories of words, including a completely new word: COVID-19 itself.

The NDP leader switches seamlessly from formality to so-called ’multicultural Toronto English,’ sounding educated and down-to-earth at the same time

Paul Wells on the Quebec National Assembly’s farcical motion about how merchants should greet their customers

A Q&A with Kory Stamper, an editor at Merriam-Webster and author of ’Word By Word,’ on profanity, and the politics of language

William and Kate will see the latest tool in an Indigenous linguistic arsenal in Whitehorse

From 2016: Research reveals an unprecedented view into the social lives of these ocean mammals, who can use ’vocal clans’ to distinguish themselves

One word’s meteoric journey from academic jargon to mainstream language to over-used cliché.

As schools turn to international students to fill chairs and coffers, concerns grow about English proficiency