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Chris Selley: May the 'nosh' resistance against Quebec's language cops spark a revolution

‘Bar is French or English, bilingual, and nosh, which is a Yiddish word, is not compliant,’ the OQLF informed Arthurs Nosh Bar

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Some Montreal restaurateurs are bucking that trend in a small but beautifully simple way, showing defiance against the latest goonish attack on people just trying to run an honest, successful business from the language police at the Office québécois de la langue française’s (OQLF). We need more of this, and faster.

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