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Guy Bertrand (born April 5, 1954) is a Canadian linguist and broadcast personality. [1] [2]
He was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. [1] A media language specialist, he has written the linguistic standards and practices for the French CBC services. His daily broadcasts are heard across Canada on Première Chaîne and Télévision de Radio-Canada. As of 2024 [update] , he has worked for Radio-Canada for 33 years. [3]
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TVA is a Canadian French-language terrestrial television network, owned by Groupe TVA, a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media.
Génies en herbe was a Radio-Canada television program in which students representing their école secondaire participated in trivia tournaments. Tournaments also took place in French-speaking communities outside Quebec, such as Saint Boniface, Manitoba. Reach for the Top is an English Canadian equivalent. It was the French Canadian equivalent to the US and international game show It's Academic.
Élise Turcotte is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel La Maison étrangère and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for La voix de Carla in 1987 and for La terre est ici in 1989.
The 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec resulted in large-scale amalgamation of smaller municipalities in Quebec into larger cities. It was undertaken by one administration, but was modified and partially undone by its successor.
Ici Radio-Canada Télé is a Canadian French-language free-to-air television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. Its English-language counterpart is CBC Television.
James Ashley Corcoran is a Canadian singer-songwriter and former broadcaster.
André Gabias is a lawyer, governance expert and politician in Quebec, Canada. He holds a degree in law from the Université de Sherbrooke, and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1981. Since 1984, he has taught law at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He represented the electoral district of Trois-Rivières and is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP).
Henri Wittmann is a Canadian linguist from Quebec. He is best known for his work on Quebec French.
Denis Vaugeois is a French-speaking author, publisher and historian from Quebec, Canada. He also served as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) from 1976 to 1985.
Magoua is a particular dialect of basilectal Quebec French spoken in the Trois-Rivières area, between Trois-Rivières and Maskinongé. Long before a military fort was constructed there, Trois-Rivières became in 1615 the first stronghold of the coureurs des bois outside the city of Québec. Magoua is the ethnonym applied to their descendants in the area. Magoua is the most conservative of all Quebec French varieties, including Joual. It preserves the sontaient ("étaient") characteristic of Métis French and Louisiana French, has a creole-like past tense particle tà and has old present-tense contraction of a former verb "to be" that behave in the same manner as subject clitics.
The Third Congress on the French Language in Canada was held in Quebec City, Montreal and Saint-Hyacinthe, from June 18 to June 26, 1952. The theme of this third congress was "Let us preserve our cultural heritage".
Joëlle Morosoli is a French-Canadian sculptor of French and Swiss descent. Her work takes the form either of installations or of architecturally integrated art in public buildings. Most of her works have moving parts, driven by mechanical systems.
TVA Nouvelles is the news division of TVA, a French language television network in Canada.
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Janette Bertrand is a Quebec journalist, actress, educator, and writer.
Jean-Marc Desgent is a poet, novelist and literary critic. He was a professor at Collège Édouard-Montpetit from 1978 to 2011. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Françoise Gaudet-Smet was a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Jean Beaudry is a Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted as co-director with François Bouvier of the 1984 film Jacques and November , which was selected as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 58th Academy Awards, and the 1989 film Unfaithful Mornings , for which the duo received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990.