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In a life devoted to public service, he served as an eloquent and charismatic leader of Ontario’s NDP, and spent the latter ...

The Académie Française, founded in the 17th century under Louis XIV, views itself as the guardian of the French language – but a group of linguists says the words the institution chooses to protect or ...

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