A new musical opened on Broadway last week, “Come from Away,” about Gander, a small town in Newfoundland that rallied to care for some seven thousand travellers stuck there after their planes were ...

Linguists say the prime minister’s use of ‘s’ instead of ‘z’ breaks national English conventions Mark Carney says that amid a fundamental shift to the nature of globalisation, his government will ...

Hockey players are famous for their distinctive jargon, but while researching this phenomenon, a linguist and hockey player realized another interesting pattern in hockey speech: American hockey ...

Canadians wear toques in winter and running shoes in summer, not “beanies” or “trainers.” We like a double double at Timmy’s, but the rising cost of coffee beans might put it over a toonie; we may ...

OTTAWA - Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents. In a letter to Prime Minister ...