[IRCA] Magique on the airwaves (an anglo discovers CJBC-860)

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Magique on the airwaves
I'm tickled by French radio's brainy giddiness and la-la singalongs

By SHEILA GOSTICK

In a cantina in Mexico city, I once received a note written to me in French. 
Mexicans are aware that Canada has two official languages. A Canadian who 
speaks only English is considered bewildering, if not wilfully stupid.

I don't know how to explain to them that years of mandatory French classes 
have little impact on the stubbornly unilingual. Canadians' traditional 
assertion that they are different from Americans might carry more weight if 
the whole country plunged into French immersion.

A major incentive for the learning of French can be found every Sunday night 
between 8 pm and midnight on CJBC, the only CBC station remaining on the AM 
band, at 860. I know of no English-speaking broadcaster who could come 
within a thousand kilometres of the awe-inspiring Jacques Languirand on his 
Par 4 Chemins.

full article:
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-03-16/news_story8.php
(for vintage radio collectors - note picture of Zenith clock radio on this 
page)


73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON 

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