Websites to Offer Bilingual Content

Monday, June 11, 2007 06:27 PM

Two Prince George websites, Tourism Prince George and Train in Prince George, will now offer bilingual content thanks to a $18,000 grant from the Canada-British Columbia Co-operation Agreement on Official Languages. The move to provide French web content is meant to entice national and international athletes to train in Prince George as well as increase British Columbia's capacity to support the Francophone community.

"Websites offer a means to market nationally and internationally and it is important to ensure that information can reach vast amounts of people without any language barriers," says Robert Doyon, President of Le Cercle des Canadiens Francais de Prince George. Stan Hagen, Minister of Tourism, Sport and the Arts, also acknowledged the benefits the new French content will bring to BC. "These are the kinds of smaller initiatives that can yield large returns and help us achieve our goal of doubling tourism revenue by 2015."

The Train in Prince George website, which will now offer fully bilingual content, is part of a campaign geared towards attracting international athletes and teams to Prince George to acclimatize prior to competition. The campaign focuses on five main winter sports; hockey, speed skating, cross country skiing, biathlon and curling.

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Posted by: lunarguy on June 11 2007 6:49 PM

I like how the train in PG web site still mentions the outdoor refrigerated skating oval that was to start construction in 2006. Hopefully when that is converted to french they can update the web site in general.

Posted by: prickos on June 11 2007 8:08 PM

$18,000? Seems pretty high to translate a website.

Posted by: Harbinger on June 11 2007 9:25 PM

Not only do I have to turn shopping products around to read English... Oh, never mind. This post wasn't really going anywhere anyways. Like me.

Posted by: Chadermando on June 11 2007 11:22 PM

BTW the CBC web site had an article the other day talking up the municiple steam plant in PG as if it is already built, and has been a great success for other communities to emulate.... Not sure where they got that idea from. I had to laugh.

Posted by: owl on June 13 2007 3:19 PM

Steam Bath? In Prince George?

Seriously though, let us recall that we did get a grant to put towards that project. The question is: "where is it at?"

I know one proponent is testing a system with a very interesting approach which is supposed to be ready soon. They may be waiting on that.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/gmaps/greencities

I like the words:"emissions controlled" :-)

Send them up a pipe and they are "controlled". They now come out at a single point and a given height.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if they were reduced at the same time, especially reduced down to near zero PM/PM10/PM2.5 emissions and near zero CO2 emissions.

Posted by: owl on June 13 2007 3:22 PM

Just thinking once more how wonderfully vague language can be.

Choose the right words and everyone will be happy and support projects which "control" emissions but do not "reduce" emissions because many read "reduce" into the word "control".