[NEWS] Five notes on French in Canada: Montréal, Ontario, Welland, Manitoba, New Brunswick

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• La Presse notes that the bilingual greeting "Bonjour-Hi" is becoming more common in Montréal.


• This Ottawa Citizen opinion-writer was entirely right in noting that the Ontario government should not try to eliminate minority language rights and institutions for budgetary reasons.


• This TVO article about the forces facing the École secondaire Confédération in Welland is a fascinating study of minority dynamics.


• This brief article touches on efforts in the Franco-Manitoban community of Winnipeg to provide temporary shelter for new Francophone immigrants.


• Francophones in New Brunswick continue to face pressure, with their numbers despite overall population growth and with Francophones being much more likely to be bilingual than Anglophones. CBC reports.