Joel the Religious bigot

Joel the Religious bigot (1946 -) is a radio presenter Québécois, which has animated for 30 years of the morning radiophonic magazines with CBF, the radio Frenchwoman of Radio-Canada to Montreal.

Born with Livarot, in Basse-Normandie the shortly after the Second world war, its family immigrates in America whereas it is only two years old. In February 1948, the family the Religious bigot moves in “with three children and without a penny out of pocket” in a housing of the street Préfontaine, in Hochelaga, popular quarters of the east of the Québécois metropolis, at the end of a tour at sea, via London and New York,

In 1967, it begins its radiophonic career at the regional station from Radio-Canada with Chicoutimi, where it spends three years.

CBF-hello

In 1977, it takes the bar of the morning emission CBF-Hello with the antenna of CBF. In company of a series of collaborators and chroniclers, the emission diffused in week of 6:00 to 9:00 is a radiophonic magazine at the fast rate/rhythm, which combines the information of service - as the weather and the bulletin of circulation - — with the cultural current events, sporting and with the review of the large titles of the newspapers, leading articles and caricatures. Inspired by style more abstract of advertisers like Guy Mauffette and Wilfrid Lemoine - with which it worked on television -, the tone of the emission is abstract, leaving a great place to to and from between the organizer-chief of orchestra and his chroniclers.

It is surrounded by a team of faithful collaborators during the years, among which one finds in particular the advertiser sporting Raymond Lebrun, the meteorologist Alcide Ouellet, chroniqueuse artistic the Francine Grimaldi and the ex- Cynique, Marc Laurendeau.

CBF Hello is a vehicle which the organizer uses to make discover with the public montréalais its passion for the big wide and the veil. The Religious bigot discovered this sport in 1975, during a cruising between the Grenadian Guadeloupe and the , on board a boat of 72 Hygie feet.

Its passion for the sail leads it with the passing of years to cover oceanographical forwardings of the Québécois ship Sedna IV in Arctique and the Antarctic. It also took share, in 1984, with the first edition of the Transat TAG Quebec-Saint-Malo, on board a sailing ship chartered by Radio-Canada.

The Religious bigot also implies himself in social causes. Moved by the situation by destitution by the homeless people by the downtown area by Montreal, the Religious bigot occupies his team in an operation punch with Dernier Recourse . December 21st, 1990, the organizer and its team settle with the corner of the street Sanguinet and the Boulevard Rene-Lévesque to collect clothing, food and money of its listeners, slowing down circulation with the downtown area.

After the closing of Last Recourse , the team of the Religious bigot joins the caritative organization Jeunesse with the sun to repeat the annual initiative, now known under the name of Guignolée of the media .

Sabbatical year

In spite of successes of listening of the emission, the Années 1990 are difficult for Radio-Canada. The plan of financial austerity of the government of Jean Chrétien assigns the budgets allocated to the public company and the moral one of the craftsmen of public radio-television is affected. The Religious bigot, the realizer Jacques Bouchard and part of his collaborators leave CBF-Hello on December 31st, 1996. After 19 years and 4 months of daily presence, the organizer explains its departure in sabbatical year by its age - it has just been 50 years old.

The organizer, which has proudly raised a beard of old seaman for 40 years, benefits from this year of slackening to embark on board cargo liners — it crosses in particular the Atlantic aboard the cargo liner Fort Desaix , transporting 10000 tons of Banane S of Point-with-Clown to the Havre. After a 11 months stay which will also lead it in Italy, in Turkey, Egypt, Germany, Spain, to Panama and the Chile, the Religious bigot returns to the fold on December 2nd, 1997.

The king of the ends of the week

January 11th, 1998, it returns to the antenna of the First chain of Radio-Canada with its new emission Saturday and anything else . Realized by Jacques Bouchard, an accomplice of long time to CBF-Hello , the emission takes again the formula of the old morning emission of week and adapts it to a 4 hour diffusion, Saturday morning.

Saturday and anything else accommodate a group of 17 chroniclers who speak about subjects as the kitchen, the history, new technologies, the cinema, the classical music and the environment. Is added to these chronicles of the interviews as well as weather, the news of the sport with Richard Garneau, the cultural chronicle of Francine Grimaldi, a reflection of Gilles Archambault as well as a humorous ticket of the actor François Parenteau. The emission is immediately success near the audience montréalais and an edition Sunday E, Why not Sunday , is added as from September 1998.

The emission is shaken by the controversy in December 2005, whereas the direction of Radio-Canada congédie the humorist Parenteau, reproaching him for having a “ leading style and pamphlétaire ”. The dismissal, which occurs in the middle of a federal electoral campaign warmly disputed, causes a sharp controversy in Quebec; some 150 listeners lodge complaints with the Ombudsman of Radio-Canada. Into a decision published in February 2006, the ombudsman Renaud Gilbert rejects the complaints, indicating that the nonrenewal of the contract of Mr. Parenteau was “ legal and légitime ” and that it was not about censure.

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