Québec City’s 400th

TweetThis year, Québec City celebrates its 400th anniversary. This is of course a good opportunity for the Canadian francophones to promote their culture and language. Although the official opening ceremony was held today, many celebration activities have already been undertaken nation-wide in the past few months. There was a festival held in downtown Toronto 2 [...]

Pronunciation-Wrestling

TweetIn my last project at work, we dealt with a US telecommunication company. We had a team consisted of about 6-7 colleagues from the US and 4 of us from Canada, all ‘locked’ in a conference room somewhere in the vicinity of Seattle. Since our client was a telecommunication company, the word ‘Mobile’ came up [...]

Sophia Books

TweetDue to business reasons, I had to travel to Seattle back-and-fro in the past few weeks. I came back to Toronto each weekend stopping over at the Vancouver Airport. In the Memorial Day long-weekend, I had trouble connecting to an immediate flight from Vancouver. I ended up spending 6 hours in Vancouver. I went out [...]

The Quadriplegic Mayor

TweetVancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan caught the attention of the international media back in 2006, when he accepted the flag at the closing ceremonies of the Turin Winter Olympics. He is Canada’s first disabled mayor and also the first quadriplegic mayor of a North American city. The mayor was paralysed after a tragic skiing accident when [...]

International Mother Language Day

TweetToday is designated to be the “International Mother Language Day”, whatever it might mean… The United Nation has proclaimed 2008 the “International Year of Languages”, whatever it might mean. But still this seems to me more meaningful that the “International Mother Language Day”. According to this UN link, the International Mother Language Day has been [...]

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