Canal M

Canal M is a French-language Canadian station, which means the playlist swings between chanson québécoise and whatever's charting in Montreal this week. One minute it's Les Cowboys Fringants doing their folk-rock thing, the next it's Cœur de pirate's quiet piano pop. The talk segments are dense and opinionated in the way only Canadian French radio gets away with. Not background noise. It wants your attention. The 256kbps stream keeps the spoken-word bits crisp, which matters when hosts talk over each other the way they do. You won't find much English here, and that's deliberate. It's a station…