From left: Sarah Mbau, Celine Tremblay and Denise Jones during their first recording. (SCFPA/Facebook)

By Ian Gustafson

Let's Talk About It

French Canadian Society of Prince Albert launches new radio show

Apr 20, 2021 | 12:00 PM

The Société Canadienne-Française de Prince Albert (SCFPA) has created, in partnership with Radio Prairie FM, a radio show for the French community of Prince Albert called “Let’s Talk About It.”

Each episode of the show talks about various issues within Prince Albert and will be broadcast every Sunday on cfrg931fm.com at 6:30 p.m. or it’s available on Youtube.

Director of the SCFPA Christian Fure told paNOW since there has been no radio station in Prince Albert who can give the French community information related to the francophone community, they decided to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Radio Prairie FM to set up the show.

The show has three hosts: Denise Jones, Céline Tremblay and Sarah Mbau, who live here in P.A.

Fure said all three are volunteers.

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One of the hosts, Céline Tremblay told paNOW being in a radio show never crossed her mind.

“I never thought of doing this,” she said.

Tremblay is now retired after working as a social worker in many places outside of Canada including France, and Africa. She was originally born in Debden, Sask. and left for foreign parts in the 1960s when she was 21.

“I called the French-Canadian Society of Prince Albert and they proposed this show. My goodness, I accepted only on one condition that we’d be a team,” she explained.

Tremblay said she is helping get the show off the ground but feels she’s not very good yet and it’s a learning process.

After their first show that debuted over the weekend, she said there is room for improvement. They want the show to be open, meaning they would like to discuss any topic that the residents of Prince Albert are concerned about. Some of the topics they’ve discussed so far she explained have been about women’s rights and if there are any positive affects that have come out of the pandemic.

“We know that it’s very hard for everybody but for some of the people it came out to bring something new to them,” she said.

“For the moment for our different [topics] we just thought of them together, the team that we are, we just thought this would interest our people. We would like to have people talk about their own experience and this will come with the future. People don’t know us yet. They might have things to say, and they’ll be very welcome.”

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