News

The CAQ's Francois Legault said that Quebec families are over-taxed.

In a report by CBC News, the CAQ vowed to eliminate the $200 health service tax and to cut taxes to middle class families if elected to power.

At the end of 5 years, a family earning a combined salary of up to $100 000 would pay $1000 less in provincial taxes. The cut would cost the government $1.8 billion in lost revenue.

Both the PQ and the Liberals attacked the promise. They expressed concern over where the lost revenue would come from.

Canada’s federal government will now match each dollar donated by Canadians to aid the food crisis that is currently threatening lives in West Africa’s Sahel region. They hope to donate a kickstart amount of $10 million to the Sahel Crisis Matching Fund.

All donations will be matched by September 30.

Funds will then be sent out by the Canadian International Development Agency. Areas that will be aided include Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Sengal, Gambia and northern Cameroon.

A shooting rampage at a Sikh temple claimed 7 lives including the shooter’s on Sunday in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

According to CNN, the FBI will investigate the shooting as a domestic terrorist case. Three people were wounded including a police officer.

The attack occurred when temple members were reading scriptures and cooking food in preparation for the Sunday service and community lunch.

Initial reports believed that were multiple shooters involved, but police did not find any evidence to support that claim.

Quebec’s student strikers will now be facing a crucial moment as they decide whether or not to return to classes in the fall. The strike, which has been occurring since spring, has made it into international news.

Montreal hotels have just gone through their worst July since 2009.

The Hotel Association of Greater Montreal told the Gazette on Thursday that hotel room revenues were down almost 15 percent from July of last year.

After a surprisingly decent June, bookings took a dive in July. The association V-P William Brown also said that there wasn’t a single cause for the decline. He pointed to the high Canadian dollar, the battered euro, an election year in the U.S. and the fallout from the student protests as key reasons.

AJ Walter Aviation has come to the rescue for Aveos Fleet Performance due to a purchase agreement which was made between them.

According to the Gazette it was on Thursday that AJ Walter signed an agreement to purchase the aircraft maintenance business.

This is good news for the nearly three thousand Aveos employees who lost jobs after the company filed for bankruptcy protection.

Read by: Sarah Deshaies

Stories by: Sarah Deshaies, Alyssa Tremblay and Jamie Lee Gordon

Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi

Quebec motorists will have to comply with a new law or face $200 to $300 fines.

The new Move Over Law orders drivers to leave a lane for emergency vehicles, creating the safest distance possible form the stopped vehicle.

The law is aimed to prevent the injuries and deaths of people hit by oncoming vehicles.

Although no election has officially been called yet, Premier Jean Charest announced 3 new Liberal candidates on Sunday.

In a report by CBC News, all of the candidates are former ADQ MPs. Charest also unveiled the PLQ candidates in the northern Quebec ridings of Duplessis and Ungava dubbing them his "Plan Nord Team".

Slain Concordia student Jun Lin was laid to rest on Thursday morning at a public funeral.

About 50 people came to pay their respects at Cote-des-Neiges Funeral Complex.

A brief service was led by Father Henry Rodriguez, who read Bible excerpts and spoke highly of Lin, who was brutally dismembered and killed last May.

"His death was cruel, horrible and indignant. He was a victim. It has been a difficult time for his family, and society," said Rodriguez.