In Quebec, they’re known to some as F.F.F.’s, French from France. While they’re not taking over the province, their growing numbers have become impossible to ignore in parts of Montreal. Dan Bilefsky, our correspondent in Montreal, wrote about the new arrivals and has shared some thoughts about the experience:

As a former Paris correspondent, I was especially struck by all the French people living in my Plateau-Mont-Royal neighborhood after I moved to Montreal about a year ago. So I set out to explore how Montrealers felt about the influx of newcomers, many of whom have come to escape economic malaise back home, to study or in search of adventure. I was also interested in learning about whether the French experienced culture shock in a place they had once colonized. Among those I spoke to was Anièle Lecoq. Ms. Lecoq, a native of Grenoble, in southeast France, emigrated to Quebec in 1978, just two years after the nationalist Parti Québécois was elected for the first time. She recalled that during those heady days, there was a conscious effort in Quebec to distance itself from France in an attempt to affirm an independent and distinct identity. These days, she said, Montreal was especially appreciated by French people because it offers a “model multicultural society where different ethnicities integrate well while retaining their own identities.” “Here you will find wines from all over the world when you go to the wine shop,” she said. “In France you will find wines from France.”

[Read: Culture Shock for French in Quebec: ‘We Smoke Cigarettes, They Smoke Pot’]

[Lire en français: Le choc culturel des Français au Québec: «On fume des clopes, ils fument du pot!»]

Trans Canada

—Canada is under increasing pressure from Washington to ban China’s Huawei from its networks, while the company’s chief financial officer is facing an extradition hearing in Vancouver. In the midst of that political storm, Huawei said it’s hiring another 200 people in Canada.

—Ibrahim and Kawthar Barho left one of the worst parts of Syria and found refuge in Halifax. Now a house fire has killed all seven of their children.

—It was originally a stunt to recruit Roman Catholic priests. The clerics who recently revived the Flying Fathers hockey team hope that it will help restore their public image following widespread cases of abuse involving the church.

—Marc Martel, who is from Montreal, once fronted a Canadian band that performed Christian music. Today he’s Freddie Mercury’s vocal doppelgänger.

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—Efforts to restore a building that played a key role in one of the darkest moments in the United States’ civil rights history have been trapped in limbo. But this multimedia article about the tale at least restores the scene digitally.

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