MONTREAL - New census data on the use of French in Quebec and especially Montreal are the continuation of a long and worrisome trend, French-language advocates say. Mario Beaulieu, president of the ...

For a Montreal-based Times correspondent, proposed language legislation brings back memories of the 1970s. By Dan Bilefsky MONTREAL — When I go for a stroll in my Montreal neighborhood, the ...

Canadian French once thrived across the country, from coastal Acadian villages to prairie homesteads. Generations of francophones built traditions and communities in every province, weaving a ...

A nation consists of a people sharing a historic connection to a territory. The people living in that territory may speak one or more languages. Essential to the idea of nationhood is the will of a ...