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The French government announced on Jan. 27 the rollout of its new videoconferencing platform, Visio. The domestically developed platform was created to replace U.S. tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams across all state services by 2027 as part of the French government’s broader push for digital sovereignty. Officials say the shift will also cut software licensing costs and strengthen security and confidentiality.

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Classified as: Emmanuelle Vaast, Sonja Solomun, digital sovereignty, france, technology
Published on: 28 Jan 2026

Congratulations to Professor Manshel for winning the MELUS Book Award!

Published on: 20 Jan 2026

Congratulations to Professor Erin Hurley for receiving a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant!

Published on: 20 Jan 2026

Congratulations to Professor Carmen Faye Mathes!

Professor Mathes has been awaredthe 2025 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize for her essay“Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address.”

The committee writes:

Published on: 20 Jan 2026

The Department of English isdelighted to announce Professor Ricardo Wilsonas the 2025-2026 MordecaiRichler Writer-in-Residence.

Published on: 22 Dec 2025

Congratulations to Professor Camille Owens!

Professor Owens received an honorable mention from theModern Language Association of America for her book.

Published on: 11 Dec 2025

Professor Sandeep Banerjee was a guest in the CBC Ideas episode "How this 19th-century Indian feminist flipped the colonial travelogue on its head."

Published on: 24 Nov 2025

Congratulations to Professor Alexander Manshel for being awardedThe Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize!

2026 Perkins Prize Citation:

Published on: 3 Nov 2025

According to a report by Quebec researchers studying social inequalities, Quebec’s economy lost $4.2 billion in 2021 due to the ongoing housing crisis — a figure the authors say is likely even higher in 2025.

Manque de logements adéquats : quels coûts sur la prospérité économique? is the first publication in a larger research project conducted by the with several partners.

Classified as: Jayne Malenfant, Moshe Lander
Published on: 22 Sep 2025

Congratulations to Professor Nathalie Cooke onher election as a Fellow to theRoyaldzٲǴCanada!

Published on: 19 Sep 2025
Pulitzer-Prize winning American journalist, journalism professor and author will speak Oct. 23

Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns will deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture at Թ on Oct. 23 during the University’s annual Homecoming festivities. Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC national radio program Ideas, will moderate the event.

Published on: 28 Aug 2025

Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History byProfessor Nathalie Cooke
Published by Reaktion Books

Published on: 19 Aug 2025

A study led by Թ researchers challenges the theory that language change over time requires new generations to replace older generations of speakers. Rather, when words change meaning, speakers of all ages participate; while older speakers might take two or three years longer than their younger colleagues to adopt new word usage, in some cases they lead the way in introducing new word meanings into the common vocabulary, the researchers found.

Classified as: Linguistics
Published on: 4 Aug 2025

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