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The francophone population outside Quebec has been in relative decline for decades. Recent attempts to change that are having an effect.

After decades of increasing support and acceptance, the music scene is flourishing — and getting a wider audience.

Acadian Communities in Nova Scotia can now make a request for bilingual stop signs. The province says they will be installing the signs on provincial roads in some Acadian communities this summer. The effort to introduce the bilingual signs was led by Acadian students in Clare. Executive director of la Société acadienne de Clare, Natalie Robichaud, who helped the students with the project, discussed why they wanted the signs. “In 2024 we’re going to have the World Acadian Congress and the students wanted to do something with regards to that,” says Robichaud. “They thought ‘there�...

Posted: Apr 02, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 2 Réanne Cooper and Marc-Alexandre Lagacy moved to Clare in January after Lagacy got a job there. They never expected it would be this difficult to find a home.  (Mélanie Courcelles) Réanne Cooper was hoping to buy a starter home when she moved back to Clare, N.S., from New Brunswick earlier this year, but soon realized that dream was out of reach.  "Now that the prices have gone incredibly high, I mean these are not prices for people who are our age," said Cooper, 26. Cooper and her partner settled instead on renting, but with ver...