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This animated infographic shows the top 10 mother tongue languages outside of the two official languages for citizens in Ottawa, Ontario for the 1996, 2006, and 2016 Census.

Statistics Canada is responsible for administering and analyzing Canada's Census. The Census Program provides a statistical portrait of the country every five years. The 2016 Census Program includes the Census of Population and the Census of…

A collection of on-line databases and custom built search and retrieval programs are maintained by Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the University of Toronto.

Students and Professors from the University of Ottawa can…

This map is a visual representation of Asian immigration population in Ottawa in 2006.

This map was originally created to see the change of Ottawa overtime and to see what neighbourhoods Asian immigration population are mostly establishing in…

There’s more to machine translation than meets the eye! The CRTC mandates the use of plain language in communications between mobile service providers and customers. This study repurposes a machine translation system as a plain language checker to…

We know that social media is popular for personal use, but is it worth the effort for institutions? Taking the Government of Canada Translation Bureau’s “Our Languages” blog as an example, this project investigates the level of public engagement – et…

Is the plant-based food movement changing our language? This study used the News On the Web corpus to investigate whether legislation to replace terms such as ‘soy milk’ or ‘veggie burger’ with ‘plant-based beverage’ or ‘veggie disc’ is effective.…