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New language-learning app named after late Liberal bilingualism champion

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Late Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger, who was able to preside over the House of Commons as honorary Speaker on March 9, 2016, before his death, has a new language-learning app named in his honour.The Hill Times file photograph

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BY ALICE CHEN

April 21, 2021

A new CBC-based language-learning app, Mauril, hopes to instil the same love of language as its namesake, the late Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger. Mr. Bélanger, who died from ALS in 2016 at the age of 61, had a long history of fighting for Canada’s linguistic duality. He was decora...

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