CBC's Lafrance to receive top French honour

MONTREAL – France's Legion of Honour, the highest of that country's national orders, is being conferred on Radio-Canada's executive vice-president Sylvain Lafrance at a special ceremony in Ottawa on Friday. Lafrance has been so named "in recognition of his outstanding efforts within the public service to develop and project French language and culture, and of his commitment to issues of diversity, cultural coexistence and protecting identities," says the CBC press release. He joins a distinguished list of recipients that includes such folks as retired U.S. General Norman Schwartzkopf, singer Barbara Streisand, chemist Louis Pasteur, Canadian film director/producer Denys Arcand, author...