Canada

IV: Here and Now

Exploring Français Québecois and Current Events through Journalism

Introduction:
These links focus on French-speaking people in Canada and French Canadian newspapers and television broadcasts. Many of these links are in French, so they will be most useful to students who are studying French in school, but there are a few English sites, as well.

Resources:
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Newspapers:

Le Devoir is the main French language newspaper in Canada

The two main national newspapers in English are The Globe and Mail and The National Post

The following sites have links to the Web sites of newspapers and magazines (and sometimes TV and radio stations) in the province of Québec and wider Canada. Some are published in French, some in English.

ABYZ News Links has a good list. It gives helpful information about the category of each paper. Has print and broadcast media.

Paperboy lists some 350 newspapers in Canada. The list can be sorted by city, province or language.

Newspaper-world.com

Onlinenewspapers.com

World-newspapers.com (only English language publications)

Television

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is Canada's national radio and television broadcaster.

The English language site of the CBC in Montréal, Québec

Radio-Canada is the French language side of the CBC (there is also a link to Television de Radio-Canada)

Français Québecois

L'Office Québecois de la langue Française, the governmental body overseeing the French language in Québec, has a wide assortment of useful resources for the French language student and teacher, though not necessarily geared toward Québecois French. There are numerous dictionaries and word lists for specific contexts (sports, industries, pastimes, math, etc.), games, dictations, puzzles, articles, and much, much more. Click on Le grand dictionnaire terminologique or Lexiques et vocabulaires and the other parts of the Bibliothèque virtuelle, or browse Liens utiles (useful links).

Several Québecois dictionaries:
Lexilogos
Le Dictionnaire québécois - français (The Québecois-French Dictionary)
Dictionary of Québec French Idioms

Le Français au Canada has a list of words and phrases used in French in Québec.

Scrabble Français-Québecois has lists of Québecois words of two to seven letters, Anglicisms used in Québec, and lists of French words, most with definitions (in French).

Histoire du français au Québec

French-speaking countries of the world

On the French language in Canada (in French)

Le français Québecois offers a good history of the language (written in English).

The same site has an excellent page of Québecois expressions, constructions, pronunciation and other aspects of French in Québec.