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My Quest for the Ultimate Canadianism
The best Canadian word is neither English nor French
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Beyond Bilingualism
The Official Languages Act will soon turn fifty. Have we outgrown it?
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How One Translator Brought Quebec’s Greatest Authors to English Canada
For Sheila Fischman, translation represents the hope that our country’s fractured identity can be healed by understanding how others see the world
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We Didn’t Choose To Be Called Indigenous
Knowing what mistakes Canada has made in the past will ensure that we stop paternalistic, colonial patterns from repeating.
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Circle Back to Me When You’ve Read This
The case for corporate jargon
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Why Academics Revel in Bad Writing
The profession’s taste for tortured verbiage comes from a desire to be taken seriously. But does it matter if no one actually reads their work?
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Barbarians at the Gates of Grammar
My Latinist father and I always disagreed about language. Then I got old
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Why Women Who Fish Are Still Fishermen
It’s clear when language is sexist—except when the people you’re talking about disagree
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Please Stop Sending Me the Oxford Comma Story
Copy editors have lives outside of punctuation—but also, I love commas
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Trump’s Typo Problem: Human Error, or Willful Ignorance?
The number of mistakes signals that important people don’t know what they’re doing—and couldn’t care less
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