{"id":14662,"date":"2012-04-17T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14662"},"modified":"2012-04-17T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:45:29","slug":"chateauguay-magazine-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-the-integrity-of-the-french-language-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/chateauguay-magazine-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-the-integrity-of-the-french-language-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Chateauguay Magazine<\/em>: a clear and present danger to the integrity of the French language in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because it publishes with both French and English contents<\/a>, the Quebec government’s language police have launched an investigation:<\/p>\n

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A monthly newsletter in the city of Chateauguay, Quebec, has caused a stir and it has nothing to do with its content. A resident complained there was too much English in the newsletter and now, Quebec’s language watchdog has launched an investigation.<\/p>\n

The Office Quebecois de La Langue Francaise<\/em> is looking into why the newsletter, called the “Chateauguay magazine,” is written in both French and English. The office says that’s a clear violation of the Charter of the French language, or Bill 101.<\/p>\n

The office wants to ensure that the all the city’s communication with citizens is done only in the official language of French.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The folks in Chateauguay are apparently being oppressed because the magazine includes content addressed to the 26% of the population that speaks English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because it publishes with both French and English contents, the Quebec government’s language police have launched an investigation: A monthly newsletter in the city of Chateauguay, Quebec, has caused a stir and it has nothing to do with its content. A resident complained there was too much English in the newsletter and now, Quebec’s language […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10,28],"tags":[198,400,477,113],"class_list":["post-14662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","tag-equalrights","tag-language","tag-magazines","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14663,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662\/revisions\/14663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}