Sentences with phrase «official language communities»

Through an interdisciplinary treatment this book opens new perspectives on the history of Canada's official language communities, the structure of linguistic conflict, legal regulation, constitutional rights, minority language education and linguistic politics.

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First Nations, Métis, Inuit, immigrants, apprentices, lower - skilled workers and official - language minority communities may be eligible for funding.
That language initially came in response to a letter from LGBT community organizations and elected officials challenging Rangel's choice in the primary.
«For Mr. Paladino, I'm going to call his name, to use such hateful language against anyone is a detriment to our community and as an elected official he should know better,» Grant said.
The ads, which began appearing on bus shelters, phone kiosks and newsstands across the city Tuesday morning, have been printed in three languages — English, Spanish and Russian — to reflect communities with the highest rates of violence, officials said.
Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.
Taking back prerogatives and language that unions have won in previous rounds of negotiations will inevitably be a bruising, unpleasant struggle — one that only the staunchest district officials will undertake, and one that they will win only if the community is committed to seeing it through.
Reimers says he looked at a number of case studies and evaluations, as well as conducted interviews of business leaders, military officials, and the intelligence community in order to gauge how much change has occurred in foreign area expertise and foreign language over the past 50 years.
Nikolas Cruz and Adam Lanza, for example, spoke a behavior language that their administrators, teachers, and community officials did not understand.
As part of a 1999 update to IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), Congress finally recognized American Sign Language (ASL) as an official language of the deaf student community.
And we share the Minister of Justice's expectation that reinstatement of the CCP «will increase access to justice for vulnerable groups and official - language communities
Member States shall communicate to the Commission the official language or languages of the Community institutions other than their own in which communications to the central authorities can be accepted.
However, the legal community has highlighted a number of decisions that warrant wider availability in the other official language.
This risk is further magnified when interactions between government agencies and the community are rushed and / or impeded by cross-cultural or language challenges — particularly where the legitimate Indigenous leaders are not proficient in English and government officials do not speak the relevant Aboriginal language... It is critical that government agencies recognise the need to build their own capacity to interact with Indigenous communities.19
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