{"id":504576,"date":"2026-02-28T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504576\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:07:10","slug":"montreal-bakery-faces-quebec-language-watchdog-complaint-over-tiktok-videos-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504576\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal bakery faces Quebec language watchdog complaint over TikTok videos &#8211; Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A well-known Armenian bakery in Montreal\u2019s Villeray neighbourhood says it was shocked to receive a notice from Quebec\u2019s language watchdog over the use of English in its social media videos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lamajoune Villeray Bakery, a family-run business operating for 40 years, recently received a letter from the Office qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de la langue fran\u00e7aise (OQLF) stating that videos posted to TikTok contained too much English and did not comply with the province\u2019s French language charter.<\/p>\n<p>The charter requires that French be the predominant language in commercial communications, including online content.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the family was obviously shocked. We couldn\u2019t believe that we had received this kind of letter,\u201d said Charbel Hannan, who runs the bakery alongside his parents.<\/p>\n<p>Hannan said the family has always aimed to serve its clientele in French and English and never intended to diminish the role of French.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur point was never to undervalue French. We are Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, let\u2019s not forget this \u2014 we are a Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois company,\u201d he said, adding that the bakery has already been producing content in both languages.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the OQLF said English content on social media is permitted, but the amount of French content must be equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11706880\/canadian-woman-still-skiing-at-95\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772255230_832_Screenshot-2026-02-25-210027.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t95-year-old Canadian skier still on the slopes after eight decades\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11710212\/donald-trump-cuba-takeover\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/donald-trump-cuba.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump says \u2018maybe we\u2019ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bakery, known for its homemade Armenian specialties, says it respects its French-speaking customers. One client interviewed in the shop said she had never seen the bakery\u2019s social media content but has always been served in French.<\/p>\n<p>Since news of the notice became public, Hannan said the business has received an outpouring of community support.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the bakery\u2019s social media views have grown significantly in recent days as more people learn about the family business and its story.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, watch the video above.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A well-known Armenian bakery in Montreal\u2019s Villeray neighbourhood says it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,10843],"class_list":{"0":"post-504576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-montreal","11":"tag-oqlf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}