Cafes in Quebec Can Keep English Name.MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- The Second Cup cafes can legally continue to sell coffee under their English name at chain locations in Quebec, reported the Ottawa Citizen The Ottawa Citizen (established 1845) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by CanWest Global in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the paper has a circulation of 141,540. , recently. Signs in English advertising Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Future Shop and Burger King among others, have also been approved, since a provincial advisory body has decided chains with trademark names don't have to adopt French monikers to comply with Quebec's strict language laws. Quebec's French language charter requires that French language laws. Quebec's French language charter requires that French be predominant pre·dom·i·nant adj. 1. Having greatest ascendancy, importance, influence, authority, or force. See Synonyms at dominant. 2. on commercial signs. However, the Conseil de la langue langue n. Language viewed as a system including vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation of a particular community. [French, from Old French; see language.] francaise concluded that the charter doesn't apply to legal trademarks. The Conseil did recommend that Quebec offer incentives to get chains to voluntarily adopt French names. |
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