Franco ON; educated in Eng; PhD McGill; passionate about Fr/Eng relations
Ottawa, ON
Joined April 2013
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What a lovely initiative! John Abbott was the only college/lycée chosen in North America to participate in the deliberations.
En amour avec la lecture | Le téléjournal avec Céline Galipeau ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/le-…
Marc-Antoine Dequoy’s impassioned speech has been picked up by all major outlets in Canada.. Just not the part about the exclusion of French at a Grey Cup event with a QC team in the finals, and within a league that calls itself ‘bilingual’. That part is dismissed altogether.
90K fans sang Sur mon épaule to Karl in July. LCF is one of the most iconic bands in Can history but unknown to the avg Canadian! How invisible is it, that no matter what you achieve, if it’s in Fr, it will not be seen, heard, validated by your countrymen?
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Isabelle Lussier retweeted
Tamil is my mother tongue and Malayalam my mom’s mother tongue. I was schooled in English since age 3 in India 🇮🇳. My decision to learn French earnestly at age15 was the best decision I made in my life. Here are some reasons why you may want to consider learning French too. A 🧵
I have never seen the word “Francophobia” in the headline of a major Eng journal before. Ever! Thank you @Isabelle_BT & @TorontoStar for this piece and giving a voice to Francophones that are expected to laugh/brush off micro aggressions like this daily thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
For many anglophones in Canada, francophobia is not a real form of discrimination, contempt, or prejudice. It’s a litmus test of how well you can take a joke. And that’s why it never makes the news.
