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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 20, 2023 11:27 am Updated December 20, 2023 1:25 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO — Teachers in Ontario’s French-language public school system will be voting next month on whether to give their union a strike mandate after nearly …
Read More »French tutor charged after sex assault against child: York police
A French tutor is facing charges in connection with an alleged sex assault against a child, York Regional Police say. News Source link
Read More »Canada should deepen Europe ties, boost military engagement: French envoy – National
France’s ambassador to Canada says Ottawa must choose between tying itself entirely to Washington or broadening its links to partner more with Europe – while also calling out Canada’s “weak” military engagement. “This nagging question of the future American commitment offers, in any case more than ever, the opportunity for …
Read More »Children of asylum seekers experience Quebec cultural ritual of French welcome classes – Montreal
Victor Manuel, a young asylum seeker from Mexico, arrived at Montreal’s St-Donat school on a frigid morning last week with his seven-year-old son and baby boy, whose bootless feet were covered only in socks. A social worker quickly alerted principal Yannick Dupont, who disappeared into a storage room and returned …
Read More »Private school in B.C. Interior replaces French with Nsyilxcən
An independent school in Kelowna, B.C., has swapped out French as its second language of instruction and replaced it with an endangered language of the local Westbank First Nation. The switch happened earlier this month at Studio9 School of the Arts, a K-to-12 school that has Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. …
Read More »Influential French film director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91
Director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema, died on Tuesday aged 91, newspaper Liberation and other French media said, citing relatives of the filmmaker. Godard was among the world’s most acclaimed directors, known for such classics as Breathless and Contempt, which pushed cinematic boundaries and inspired iconoclastic …
Read More »Macron’s alliance facing fight for absolute majority in French election despite leading projected seat count
French President Emmanuel Macron faces a tough fight to win an absolute majority in parliament that would allow him to govern with a free hand after a strong showing by a new left-wing alliance in Sunday’s first-round election. Projections based on the election’s partial results showed that at the national …
Read More »Nadal wins 14th French Open title, record-extending 22nd Grand Slam
Rafael Nadal’s painful left foot was numbed by multiple injections to two nerves throughout the French Open, the only way he has found to deal with a chronic condition he acknowledges puts his tennis future in doubt. At any other tournament, Nadal said, he would not have persisted through what …
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