Quebec
About Quebec
Quebec is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, it is the only Francophone-majority province in the country, being home to Québécois French. It shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Quebec has a population of around eight million, making it Canada's second-most populous province only behind Ontario.
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The apostrophe is illegal in Quebec. It's because the apostrophe S is English grammar, and they're trying to keep the French language alive.
from Little Fish: Not Sponsored By Reba McEntire, 2026-01-18 at 00:14:33 · read transcript
Other times Quebec came up
When he moved back here, he had to have a language coach and an accent coach, basically. Language coach? What accent is that? That's Canadian. Authentic Quebec. He, yeah, he had to have someone to reteach him his accent. In Canadian English, there are interesting vowel shifts that they do. I've never heard of any of this, but there's the aboot, which they don't actually say aboot. If you listen to them closely, they say the...
546: No Such Thing As A Sausage In The Exam Hall, 2024-08-29 · listen
There are two options here. One, I've written down the wrong word. Or more likely, I've copy-pasted that word, and the word flapjack means something different in Canada. Ah. Anyway, there are these guys, the Federation de Productor Aerico de Quebec, which is, as you say, the syrup produces union. Basically, they do. They run the whole show. You're not legally allowed to sell maple syrup to anyone except them.
No Such Thing As A Mean Butterfly, 2018-02-16 · listen
There's time for fact number two, and that is Jasinski. My fact this week is that Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve, and in 2012, a quarter of the maple syrup in it was stolen. and I love this. I only just found out about this, but this is in Quebec, so Canada taps 75% at least of the global supply of maple syrup. So it provides a lot of jobs for people.
No Such Thing As A Mean Butterfly, 2018-02-16 · listen
The fact this week is that Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve, and in 2012, a quarter of the maple syrup in it was stolen. I love this. I only just found out about this, but this is in Quebec, so Canada tapped 75% at least of the global supply of maple syrup. So it provides a lot of jobs for people. So in the same way that there needs to be an oil reserve in the US because the fluctuation is in the market, or if all the maple trees suddenly die or whatever in Canada, they have a massive reserve so that the prices can stay stable and so that the supply can stay stable.
204: No Such Thing As A Mean Butterfly, 2018-02-16 · listen
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