Radio-Canada launches afternoon radio show for Southwestern Ontario

Hello, this is Mohamed Aziz Mestiri and Tiffany Mangou, and welcome to L'Entre-Deux. Host Mohamed Aziz Mestiri and producer Tiffany Mangou have been working hard to get their new show on the air. It's an unexpected calling for the pair, who both came to Windsor to fill different roles. I'm much more of a... Researcher, reporter, being the host, the visage of the show, it's kind of surreal. To just get hopped into a producer position, I'm just like, wow, you know? Like, I'm really thankful and grateful for the opportunity. You ready? Do you like to stay home? Still learning how to work together on air. The show is named L'Entre-Deux, which translates to The In-Between. So obviously Windsor-Between, the southwest of Ontario, actually. Being in between Canada and the United States, the show being in between me and Tiffany, so we're both from immigration descent. It looks to go in depth on stories important to the public interest. Whether it's the pollution in the Detroit River, whether it's corporal punishment, whether it's the arrests, the return of arrests in both Windsor and London when it comes to simple drug use, Those are like public interest stories. They have to be in both languages. This is the mandate of the public service. So the protein is a macronutrient... Entre Deux has been on the air for just one week, adding a second radio offering from Radio-Canada in Windsor. Radio-Canada says it's part of a national initiative to expand their French radio service in Canada. Factually speaking, there is also a growth of the francophone community in the southwest of Ontario. We had to fight for it. The expansion is notable for Carole Papineau, a former Radio-Canada employee and part of a committee that fought to bring local French radio programming back to Windsor after it was completely cut in 2009. It's celebrating 325 years of Francophones in this area. We've been here for a long, long time and to see things disappear and then we have to fight again to get them back, which is what, you know, we did for a few years, but now to see it happening again and see that the community is growing with all the newcomers that are coming in the French community, it's great to see that we're having, you know, more things for us in the community. You can catch L'Entre-Deux across southwestern Ontario every weekday afternoon between 3 and 4 p.m. Jacob Barker, CBC News, Windsor.