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Official Languages Act

Inuit schoolchildren speak in English to each other on the playground at Leo Ussak Elementary School, Rankin Inlet.Inuit schoolchildren in a Gr. 3 class reading aloud in Inuktitut at Leo Ussak Elementary School, Rankin Inlet. (Tonda MacCharles/Toronto Star/Getty Images)

Inuktut deserves a place in the Official Languages Act

Ottawa could lead the world by formally recognizing the mother tongue of the Inuit as an official language within Nunavut

Inuit schoolchildren speak in English to each other on the playground at Leo Ussak Elementary School, Rankin Inlet.Inuit schoolchildren in a Gr. 3 class reading aloud in Inuktitut at Leo Ussak Elementary School, Rankin Inlet. (Tonda MacCharles/Toronto Star/Getty Images)

Inuktut deserves a place in the Official Languages Act

Ottawa could lead the world by formally recognizing the mother tongue of the Inuit as an official language within Nunavut

Tongue-tied no longer

Canada’s language wars are over

After 50 fraught years of fights, including a constitutional battle or three, French Canada has won

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In conversation with Graham Fraser

The commissioner of official languages on Montreal’s language shift, a bilingual Olympics and the PQ government