Mark Turin

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Le président américain Donald Trump après la signature d’un décret à la Maison-Blanche en mars 2025. (Pool via AP)

L’anglais, langue officielle des États‑Unis : un décret de Trump qui bouleverse une longue histoire multilingue

Mark Turin, University of British Columbia and Ross Perlin, Columbia University

Au cours de leur histoire de près de 250 ans, les États-Unis n’ont jamais eu de langue officielle jusqu’à présent. Mais les Américains ne cesseront pas d’utiliser des langues autres que l’anglais.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order as he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump’s English language order upends America’s long multilingual history

Mark Turin, University of British Columbia and Ross Perlin, Columbia University

Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language until now. But Americans will not stop using languages other than English because of an executive order.
Memory can serve as a heavy reminder of the past. Indigenous people gather in Shubenacadie, N.S., in June 2008 to remember the residents of a former residential school and the abuses they suffered. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Dembeck

The importance of personal memory on Remembrance Day

Philippe Tortell, University of British Columbia; Margot Young, University of British Columbia, and Mark Turin, University of British Columbia

Memories can be powerful tools to address humanity’s most difficult political, sociological and environmental problems

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