Ambulance NB and province commit to bilingual service in lawsuit settlement
Posted: December 4, 2017Ambulance New Brunswick and the province have committed to providing bilingual service as part of a lawsuit settlement with a Moncton brother and sister. Danny Sonier had fallen into a diabetic coma in February 2013, but the two paramedics who responded to the Moncton emergency were unilingual anglophones. Ambulance New Brunswick and the province acknowledge in a Court of […more]Quebec passes motion for store clerks to stop saying ‘bonjour, hi’
Posted: November 30, 2017Quebec’s legislature has passed a motion calling on store clerks to stick with a simple “bonjour” when greeting customers instead of the hybrid “bonjour, hi” often heard in Montreal. Politicians at the provincial legislature voted unanimously on the Parti Québécois(PQ) motion. The PQ says too many people are speaking both French and English to customers and […more]Breaking the spell of French immersion
Posted: November 10, 2017The reality is that the vast majority of students across Canada who enrol in French immersion drop out by high school, and are then thrown back into the English stream, often with both language and subject matter gaps in their learning. The Halton Catholic District School Board may be on the verge of deflating one […more]Lack of Bilingual jurors delays N.B. murder trial (paid subscription)
Posted: October 26, 2017https://www.telegraphjournal.com/bugle-observer/story/100386929/murder-trial-for-james-andrew-melanson-and-karl-andrew-hudnut-beginsProvincial Grade 12 FSL Oral Proficiency Assessment Results 2013-14
Posted: October 10, 2017Dismal results - I encourage taking a look http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/ed/pdf/K12/results/documents/FSLProvincialOralProficiencyInterviewProgramAssessmentResults-Grade12.pdfStatement on Canadian Francophonie between the Government of Québec and the Government of New Brunswick
Posted: October 10, 2017GNB Website: http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/intergovernmental_affairs/partnerships_and_agreements/francophonie.html PDF Document: http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/iga-aig/pdf/Statement.pdf‘English is the key’: Controversy in Quebec as more francophones choose English CEGEPs – Montreal – CBC News
Posted: October 6, 2017During a convention this weekend, Parti Québécois delegates will debate and possibly vote on a resolution to cut funding to English colleges, known as CEGEPs, because they are attracting too many non-anglophones. Source: 'English is the key': Controversy in Quebec as more francophones choose English CEGEPs - Montreal - CBC NewsAmbulance attendants do not want to bear the burden of lack of resourcesj(translated)
Posted: October 6, 2017PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2017 AT 17 H 12 Yanick Mongeau, Regional President of the Union of Paramedical Workers. The paramedics union denounces the management of Ambulance New Brunswick in the Western Restigouche. Recent events reported by the media have a negative impact on the morale of ambulance attendants, who feel they are being […more]Provincial French Second Language Oral Proficiency Assessment at Grade 12 Assessment Results 2015-2016
Posted: September 6, 2017Early French Immersion - First of all, only 451 Anglophone students in NB completed the program and took the assessment. Of those students - only 166 students achieved Advanced Level (hiring for entry level public service usually requires Superior, although Advanced Plus is sometimes accepted depending on the role) Late French Immersion - Even more […more]‘Major concerns’ about privatized management of extramural, Tele-Care – New Brunswick – CBC News
Posted: September 2, 2017New Brunswick's commissioner of official languages is voicing "major concerns" about the provincial government's decision to hand management of extramural and Tele-Care services over to the private sector. Source: 'Major concerns' about privatized management of extramural, Tele-Care - New Brunswick - CBC NewsWHEN HIS LANGUAGE KILLED! – Society of Acadia of New Brunswick
Posted: September 1, 2017Source: WHEN HIS LANGUAGE KILLED! - Society of Acadia of New BrunswickEquality Health in French requires the end of the NB Ambulance Contract (Translated using Google Translated)
Posted: August 31, 2017The Equality in French group calls on the government to terminate the contract linking its ambulance service with Medavie Health Services. The pressure group invokes the report of the Commissioner of Official Languages, published on Friday in which Katherine d'Entremont described several breaches of the Official Languages Act. According to the Commissioner, NB Ambulance has […more]