The first song released from that album, " Avec Toi ," made it to the top 5 in the top 100 radio BDS countdown while the video also placed the song in the top 5 on Musique Plus and Musimax ( the Francophone version of MuchMusic ).

With his unmistakable accent, Francophones connected immediately, however, that did not detract Anglophone listeners, leading to complaints from CHOM's main competitor at the time, the Francophone radio station CKOI, Rajotte's former employer.

In addition to talk radio, the station also broadcasts classic ( and forgotten kitsch ) Québécois and Francophone music, news bulletins, eclectic entertainment and international information ( often about other independence movements ).

Francophone rap was given a boost in the early 2000s by a decision of the French ministry of culture, which insisted that French-language stations play a minimum of 40 percent French-language music during transmission.

Whereas the English Canadian television branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation could broadcast English-language shows from American stations, the Francophone component of the CBC, Radio-Canada had to develop its own programs for French-Canadian viewers from the earliest days of television in Canada.

Layton appeared on the Radio-Canada talk show Tout le monde en parle on April 3, an appearance that was credited for improving his party's standing among Francophone voters due to his informal Québécois French.

Trebek's Francophone side was put on display in 1978, in a special bilingual edition of Reach for the Top and its Radio-Canada equivalent Génies en herbe.

A news report produced by the Belgian Francophone television company RTBF alleged that Leterme said in the Flemish parliament: " I don't need the King ".

Maamri said that in 2009, due to the advent of satellite television channels that carry Francophone entertainment, the language " is now enjoying something of a revival.

The station is the Francophone flagship of the Ottawa Senators NHL hockey team.

However in July 2012, Bell Media, owners of CKGM, announced that English-language rights to the Canadiens may return to CJAD following its acquisition of Astral Mediaas Bell plans to convert CKGM to a Francophone sports-talk station in order to comply with ownership limits preventing the merged company from owning both CJAD and CKGM if they both broadcast in English.

For example, Quebec City rock station, CHOI 98. 1 FM airs " La Dump ou le meilleur du rock francophone " (" The Dump, or the best of Francophone Rock ") from 9pm to 12am and added more talk contents during daytime.

There are also historical ties between the respective Francophone populations.

Since 1991, the CBC and Radio Canada, its Francophone counterpart, are governed by the Broadcasting Act.

Some people living in the Codroy Valley on the south-west tip of the island are also ancestrally Francophone, but represent Acadian settlers from the Maritime Provinces of Canada who arrived during the 19th century.

: within the capital's regional assembly however, there also exist two so-called Community Commissions ( fixed numbers, not an automatic repartition of the regional assembly ), a Dutch-speaking one and a Francophone one, for various matters split up by linguistic community but under Brussels ' regional competence, and even ' joint community commissions ' consisting of both for certain institutions that could be split up but are not.

The educational needs of the Francophone community in Victoria are served by Ecole Victor Brodeur in the adjacent municipality of Esquimalt.

Francophone Canadians abroad have to modify their accent somewhat in order to be easily understood, but most Francophone Canadians are able to communicate readily with European Francophones.

Services are conducted in French for a Francophone parish community, and members of the Huguenot Society of America.

But whether they are long or short, bound or in magazine format, in Francophone Europe there is no need for a more sophisticated name than bandes dessinées, as this term does not itself imply something frivolous or humorous.

Louisianans who identify themselves as " Creole " are most commonly from historically Francophone communities.

The Senghor University ( Official Website ) is a private postgraduate institution that trains managers and high-level trainers in areas that are a priority for development in Francophone Africa.

Belgian Francophone literature is characterized by authors who achieved a nationwide success in Belgium while being little known in France, and shares traits that are perceived as typically Belgian: use of black humour, self-derision, surrealism and absurdism ( in a similar vein as Belgian painters such as René Magritte ), and references to Belgian history and society ( such as Belgian royalty, language conflicts, former colony of Congo, Belgian beers and gastronomy, and whatever is typically Belgian ) and they are often active in Belgian medias as columnists or entertainers.

Often these patois are popularly considered " bastardizations " of English, " broken English ", or slang, but cases such as Jamaican patois are classified with more correctness as a creole language ; in fact, in the Francophone Caribbean the analogous term for local variants of French is créole ( see also Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole ).

Its Francophone population are known as " Brayons.

In Francophone Europe, crêpes are often sold in special stands, along with Nutella for topping.

Francophone regions of Canada are those areas with large concentrations of French-speaking residents.

" Francophone " here may mean those who speak French natively, or it may alternatively include those allophones in Canada who, in various ways, are sometimes associated with French Canadian society more closely than with English Canadian society.

The Office of Francophone Affairs is the government agency responsible for ensuring that French language services are provided.

Most of these are members of the Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario, or AFMO.

) degrees are granted in African, African American, and Caribbean studies, anthropology, art, art history, Asian studies, chemistry, communication, communication disorders, early childhood education, earth science, economics, elementary education, English, French and Francophone studies, geography, history, Latin American and Latino studies, liberal studies, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, psychology, secondary education, sociology, Spanish, and women's and gender studies.

Eight of the other Canadian provinces are overwhelmingly ( greater than 90 %) English-speaking, while New Brunswick is officially bilingual and about one-third Francophone.

French is not an official language north of the notional geographic line above these two cities, though there are many Francophone families in Flanders, especially Gent, Antwerp and Kortrijk.

Almost all Belgian political parties are divided into linguistic groups, either Dutch-speaking parties ( see also political parties in Flanders ), Francophone parties or Germanophone parties.

Garneau is located in a highly Francophone area ( See map of Ottawa showing the francophone concentrations ).

It officially opened on June 20, 1877 to confer degrees on students graduating from its three founding colleges-St. Boniface College ( Roman Catholic / Francophone ), St John's College ( Anglican ) and Manitoba College ( Presbyterian ).

Of Africa's Francophone countries, Chad benefited least from the 50 % devaluation of their currencies in January 1994.

The 50 % devaluation of the currencies of 14 Francophone African nations on 12 January 1994 had mixed effects on the CAR's economy.

* Raphaël Outtara, ' Cote d ' Ivoire ,' in Alan Bryden, Boubacar N ' Diaye, ' Security Sector Governance in Francophone West Africa: Realities and Opportunities ,' DCAF / Lit Verlag, 2011.

Blue shows a Francophone majority with less than 33 % Anglophones and green a Francophone majority with more than 33 % Anglophones.

Influenced by the views of Brentano's pupil Alexius Meinong, and by Edmund Husserl, Germanophone and Francophone philosophy took a different direction regarding the question of existence.

Parallel to the Equatoguinean rapprochement with its Francophone neighbors, France's role has significantly increased following Equatorial Guinea's entry into the CFA Franc Zone and the BEAC.

In 1865 Kekulé published a paper in French ( for he was then still in Francophone Belgium ) suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds.

The Francophone Walloon identity of Belgium is linguistically distinct and regionalist.

Upper Canada was primarily Anglophone, whereas Lower Canada was Francophone.

Despite the Francophone majority in Lower Canada, most of the power was concentrated on the Anglophone minority, who exploited the lack of a secret ballot to intimidate the electorate.

In 1956, he edited an important book on the subject, La grève de l ' amiante, which argued that the strike was a seminal event in Quebec's history, marking the beginning of resistance to the conservative, Francophone clerical establishment and Anglophone business class that had long ruled the province.

At the École libre des hautes études, a sort of Francophone university-in-exile, he met and collaborated with Claude Lévi-Strauss, who would also become a key exponent of structuralism.

Dakar, as the former capital of French West Africa, is also home to banks and other institutions which serve all of Francophone West Africa, and is a hub for shipping and transport in the region.

The Jean Lesage Liberal government created a welfare state ( État-Providence ) and fomented the rise of active nationalism among Francophone Québécois.

The Francophone Socialist Party ( PS ), the largest in Wallonia, controls 26 seats.

The Senufo or Senufic languages ( Senoufo in Francophone usage ) comprise ca.