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2012-01-23
- Did you humblebrag in 2011?
- Attention: Inuit artists
2012-01-16
- Fisherman turns writer at 98!
- History of the Book in Canada
2012-01-09
- Take the learning journey
2012-01-03
- Living the language with Katimavik
- Canada's own superhero!
2011-12-12
- Tobique on video
- Unique in Canada
2011-12-05
- Cat out of the bag on idioms
- Howfastcanyoutalk?
2011-11-28
- Happy 75th birthday!
- Words and music
2011-11-21
- S-Ka-Sa-Fay-Mal?
- Eco-friendly straw books
2011-11-14
- Delightful light mysteries wanted!
- Hockey sweater or jersey?
2011-11-07
- Language Update Fall 2011 edition now online!
- Literacy for health
2011-10-24
- Is your dictionary dusty?
- Words for coffee connoisseurs
2011-10-17
- Vancouver Writers and Readers Festival
- Find zono in three languages!
2011-10-10
- A place unbound
- A Canadian in Iran
2011-10-03
- Bringing the small screen to the blind
- Stand Up for Youth essay contest
2011-09-26
- Get a degree in Cree!
- The greatest gift ever!
2011-09-19
- PEI Pen & Inkling Festival
- Kingston WritersFest 2011
2011-09-06
- Lit kids
- September = Life Literacy Month
2011-08-29
- French is the thing in T.O.
- Apostrophe-s: to use or not to use?
2011-08-22
- A Canuck and chok yeung
- One child, many languages
2011-08-15
- Wanted: 150 southern Alberta English speakers
- Poetry and the law?
2011-08-08
- Free lessons for Japanese students
- Are you a literary tourist?
2011-08-02
- Emails not all alike
- Technology reviving language
2011-07-25
- Acadians celebrate!
- Do you have pull?
2011-07-18
- Can you say !Xó??
- A man of rhymes
2011-07-11
- Reviving Cree online!
- Language Update Summer 2011 edition now online!
2011-07-04
- A whale of a tale
2011-06-13
- A glimpse of new talent
- Community interpreters boom in BC
2011-06-06
- Making small talk
- Star line-up for FFO 2011
2011-05-30
- A Canadian accent?
- A novel idea
2011-05-23
- Keep up the Gaelic!
- Language—a unique view of the world
2011-05-16
- English can be absurd!
- Toddlers learn from ums and uhs
2011-05-09
- East meets West
- Newspaper with a difference
2011-05-02
- Know a special someone?
- Thirty books make the list!
2011-04-25
- French legal terms made easy
- May or might?
2011-04-18
- Frye Festival
- LOL is in the OED!
2011-04-11
- Celebrate Canadian humour!
- Babies “see” language in the faces of speakers
2011-04-04
- TERMIUM Plus^® now includes Portuguese!
- April means ghazals and sestinas
2011-03-28
- My Portal at school, at work and at home
- No penalty for reading
- Celebrate lifelong learning
2011-03-21
- For the love of children's books
- The Bard, with a twist
2011-03-14
- Finding your voice
- Raising bilingual kids: help for parents
2011-03-07
- New Web features on the Language Portal of Canada
- Calling Aboriginal youth!
2011-02-28
- Business gobbledygook
- Internet to the rescue
2011-02-21
- First place goes to social media!
- Toddlers with an edge
2011-02-14
- A canny canine
- Freedom to Read Week
2011-02-07
- Book club to go
- Like to write?
2011-01-31
- Canadian students shine
- Sustainable Mobility Glossary
2011-01-24
- Courses in French legal vocabulary
- Ontario's top French class
2011-01-17
- Writers in need of TLC
- Baby talk

Archived Headlines 2010

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