OTTAWA: Linguistic Bigots and the Mayor

[dewline]

On one level, this was an act of intimidation. On another, an act of twisted nostalgia.

On another, it was worse.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/anti-francophone-flyers-mayors-breakfast-1.5356877

I answer the act with this: Ottawa - since well before European contact and "settlement" - colonization, really - was always functionally multilingual. Not merely bilingual.

And it should always remain so.

Comments

[dewline]

I know. Using Impact as a title/header font? It's like every typography issue they have, they think they need a sledgehammer for.

[notasupervillain]

At least it's not comic Sans?

Though, in the UK, the Tories successful used comic Sans to make a political message go viral.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2019/10/they-re-doing-badly-purpose-why-tories-latest-online-ads-look-so-ugly&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwi93sCWzublAhXFSRUIHWrTDe4QFjABegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw1pstQgdjltg3L8uVNzZvJh

[dewline]

That's appalling in its own ways.

[notasupervillain]

Yeah