About this website
This website offers various resources on municipal translation policies in Canada, including policy documents from different municipalities, a specialized bibliography, links to press articles on municipal translation policies, and an interactive map of Canadian cities with translation/language frameworks.
These resources can be helpful for anyone interested in learning more about translation policies, researchers with an interest in translation and language policies, and municipalities seeking to develop their own multilingual frameworks.
Sathya Rao (He/Him) is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has authored numerous publications in the fields of Translation studies and Francophone literature. For a complete list of his publications, please consult https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9222-8580.
I want to thank the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, my colleagues Dr. Odile Cisneros and Dr. Ann De Leon, Charlene Ball, the City administrators - especially Dr. Ziyan Yang and Bryan Frois - who took time to fill out the surveys and kindly agreed to be interviewed, and the research assistants who contributed to this project: Hongyang Ji, Amirhossein Firuzkohi, and Wei Zeng. The early stage of this research was funded with a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) partnership grant.