Quebec’s new language law has dozens of municipalities in the province shoring up their bilingual status, with few considering giving up the right to serve their citizens in both English and French. Almost 90 cities, towns or boroughs in Quebec are considered officially bilingual, a designation allowing them to offer services, post signage and mail…

A Quebec Superior Court judge has temporarily suspended two articles of the province’s new language law, saying they could prevent some English-speaking organizations from accessing justice through the courts. Justice Chantal Corriveau has ruled that the sections of Bill 96 that require corporations to pay a certified translator to produce French versions of legal documents…

The Quebec government wants the proposed federal language law reform to take a different approach toward the province’s English-speaking minority and francophone minorities in other parts of the country. The province has sent 14 suggested amendments to members of a parliamentary committee currently studying the bill. Those amendments would remove language from the bill calling…

The English Montreal School Board says it will launch a legal challenge of Quebec’s recently adopted language law reform. The board said in a news release today that it believes the law, commonly known as Bill 96, violates English-speaking Quebecers’ constitutional right to manage and control their own educational institutions. The language law, adopted on…

Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says his government is not ruling out a court challenge to Quebec’s newly adopted language-reform law. But Lametti says he first wants to see how it’s implemented, adding that the law could be enforced in a way that doesn’t violate constitutionally protected rights. Quebec’s Bill 96, adopted on Tuesday, extends…