Canada’s official bilingualism is often portrayed as an expensive government program that drains taxpayer dollars. But this narrow view misses the bigger picture of what bilingualism actually delivers ...

Newswise — The presence of French and English, as well as Indigenous languages and languages from around the globe, has played an important role in shaping Canada’s identity. Bilingualism—or ...

- What do you see when you look at this picture? Hopefully it's either a duck or a rabbit. Most of us can see both, but not at the same time. We sort of switch back and forth. This is known as an ...

There are a million different ways to be bilingual. Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, CC BY-SA It’s estimated that half the world’s population is bilingual, and two-thirds of the world’s children grow up in an ...

Public fascination with bilingualism is hardly new. Parents wonder whether raising children with more than one language will give them an intellectual edge. Teachers deliberate on how bilingualism ...

After 17 years on the bench, Justice Rosalie Abella is set to retire from the Supreme Court of Canada in July. As is always the case when a Supreme Court judge leaves, Abella’s retirement is spurring ...

I’m not sure I’ve seen a Quebec leader quite so bluntly say he cares what language you speak on your own time Imagine your Nonna’s doctor, with whom she has always communicated in Italian, suddenly ...

Imagine a little girl who greets her parents “good morning” in Spanish during breakfast, argues with her siblings at lunchtime in English, and FaceTimes her grandmother in Mandarin just before going ...