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http://ntv.ca/features/birthdays/ The best part is the extremely obvious divide among the elderly as to who is from a larger town and who is from an outport. |
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Anyway, no doubt there are some Live at Five viewers among francophones in the north as well, but I know lots of people all across the north and have for decades, and their go-to news is Radio-Canada out of Moncton with second place clearly going to Gaspésie TVA station CHAU from Carleton-sur-Mer on the north side of the Baie des Chaleurs. CHAU is such a fixture in northern NB that it has offices, sales reps and reporters based all over the region. |
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It is similar with immigration where there was this narrative of immigrants not wanting to move to smaller cities that persisted for years after the relative decline of immigration to Canada's largest cities. This is the sort of stuff I push back against a bit. I'm not saying Toronto isn't the most important or most "global" city in Canada. Mostly I'm saying the others are more successful and connected than a lot of people suppose, or than the strict hierarchical national urban model predicts. And a lot of people get carried away with the globalist plutocrat narrative, which is important but doesn't fully describe how the world works. |
Interesting stuff about Belgium. The country itself doesn't have a very big profile globally, but it is more important and interesting when looking at it in depth.
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And though there are anglophones or allophones in Montréal, the RMR still amounts 3,7 millions french speakers. And anyway, I don't think that the statistic about Montréal being the 2nd french-speaking city worldwide ever was accurate. |
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Montreal is a bigger French speaking city (i.e. has more French speakers) than any city in Europe except Paris. Where Montreal ranks in the world's French speaking cities only depends on how you rank African cities like Kinshasa and Abidjan - as primarily French speaking or not. |
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"Marseilles!" |
Should have noticed that it was for metropolitan populations!
Montreal metro population today is about where Toronto was at in the late 1980s? Does that seem accurate? (yes, I know that Montreal used to have more people than Toronto) |
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But not in a way that should affect programming, so you still have a point. I was going to say that I didn't think Toronto dominated as much as some people think, but I've been beaten to that apparently. Anyways, I'll throw Vienna in there as a better candidate? Not sure if Austria has a comparable city. Toronto does feel like its own universe, and I can understand why people think it dominates Canada, but it really doesn't. Sure, banking headquarters are there, but people don't think much about that stuff so long as they get their money. |
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Montreal's close to 4 million, Bruxelles is at ~2.5M. |
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But I suppose what you really mean is people in Cdn city x have conversations in which they imagine what Torontonians might be saying and that just (needlessly) boils their blood. |
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