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News for October 16th, 2015
Hosted by Julian McKenzie
Stories by: Catlin Spencer
Produced by: Emeline Vidal
LOCAL
by Catlin Spencer
Montreal’s Concordia University will be hosting academics from all over North America on Friday to explore gender and human development.
According to the Montreal Gazette, the conference on gender and gender issues was organized by the university's own developmental psychologist William Bukowski.
Topics ranging from addressing gender segregation, to working with sex-atypical youth to feminism and masculinity will be presented and discussed.
Bukowski says that gender has become one of the big issues of our time and that there is a lot more leeway now in what it means to be a man or a woman.
NATIONAL
by Catlin Spencer
Eleven people were injured after a man with a hammer entered the Bridge River Indian Band office in British Columbia Wednesday morning and began attacking people.
According to The Globe and Mail, as of Thursday morning, four remained in hospital, one woman with a fractured skull.
Authorities were able to capture and subdue the attacker, who died shortly after his arrest. The cause of his death is still unclear.
Family of the victims say the attacker may have been suffering from any of the systematic problems facing the community, such as poverty and substance abuse, which may have lead to the attack.
INTERNATIONAL
by Catlin Spencer
Leaders of the European Union received stern warnings at a summit meeting on Thursday to respect their promises to tackle the refugee emergency.
According to CTV News, leaders had pledged to provide hundreds of millions in aid for Syrian refugees, funding for fingerprinting and screening new arrivals to Italy and Greece and to help Africa manage it's borders.
However, after a month, the European Commission says only three of the 28 nations have pledged a total of 12 million euros to help aid African borders and only a dozen have sent personnel to Italy and Greece.
EU President Donald Tusk says leaders can and must do much better as the influx of migrants could get much worse.
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
Hosted by: Julia Bryant
Stories by: Emeline Vidal, Saturn De Los Angeles & Julia Bryant
Produced by: Julia Bryant
News for October 15th, 2015
LOCAL
By Emeline Vidal
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre announced Wednesday that the city will not dump its sewage in the St Lawrence river, following a federal law.
According to the Montreal Gazette, Coderre warns that withholding the sewage could lead to breaks in the sewage system, which would cause long-term pollution to the river.
The Quebec Environment minister sides with Coderre, finding that the province had already fully examined the case.
No mention was made of where or when the sewage would be released.
NATIONAL
By Saturn De Los Angeles
A new investigation reveals that many First Nation communities in Canada have experienced severe water problems in the past decade.
According to CBC News, 400 out of the 618 communities had water advisories for as long as up to 20 years, such as Ontario's Neskantaga and British Columbia's Nazko First Nations.
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society Director - Cindy Blackstock - calls this finding outrageous that water - a basic life necessity - would be denied to Natives in a supposedly wealthy country.
Public researchers believe that a poorly maintained water infrastructure to rural areas and inadequate funding may be some of the many causes.
Federal agencies including Aboriginal Affairs declined to comment, but a Health Canada spokesperson acknowledged the seriousness of the issue.
News for October 14th 2015
LOCAL
by Alexa Everett
A pair of Montreal men are facing charges of misrepresentation and exporting without a permit after selling American railway equipment to Iran.
According to CBC, sixty-seven-year-old Michael Allen and 75-year-old Hugo Dreckmann work at a locomotive company in St-Lazare.
The duo was trying to pass off equipment made in the U.S as Canadian, directly violating the Export and Import Permits Act.
The RCMP estimates that the men have made over $10 million in exporting locomotive parts between 2007 and 2012.
by Saturn de Los Angeles
A new report reveals that Toronto has the highest rate of child poverty in Canada.
According to CTV News, a report released by the city’s Children's Aid Society shows that one in four Toronto youth are living below the poverty line.
29 percent live in low-income families, a figure that remains unchanged since 2007.
Demographics include children of colour, Native, those from single-parents, newcomer families, and those with disabilities, mostly living in the suburbs.
The report’s author, Michael Polanyi, says that the success of tens of thousands of youth are at risk unless all government levels prioritize poverty reduction.
by Patricia Petit Liang
The Dutch Safety board has determined that the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 that crashed in 2014 was hit by a Russian-made missile.
According to BBC News, the missile struck the plane, leading to the disaster that killed 298 people last summer.
Despite the evidence, Russia blames Ukrainian forces for the accident.
The majority of the victims were Dutch, with other passengers and crew members coming from 10 other countries.
Wednesday October 14th 2015
Hosted by Julia Bryant
Stories by Alexa Everett, Saturn de Los Angeles & Patricia Petit Liang
Produced by Catlin Spencer
News for October 13th, 2015
LOCAL
by Julian McKenzie
An abandoned police station in Kanesatake was burned down on Monday.
According to CTV News, nobody was hurt and the cause of the fire is still unknown.
Elections Canada has apologized for the long delays voters encountered at the advance polling stations over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.
According the CBC News, an Elections Canada spokesperson, Marie-France Kenny, attributed the delays to a much higher voter turnout than anticipated, even though this year’s advance polling period had been increased to four days, instead of three.
The number of early voters on Friday and Saturday had increased by 16 percent since 2011.
Voters who still wish to cast their ballots before Election day can do so at any of the 400 Election Canada offices on Tuesday until 6 p.m.
October 13th, 2015
Hosted by Danny Aubry
Stories by Julian McKenzie, Pauline Nesbitt & Danny Aubry
Produced by Patricia Petit Liang & Pauline Nesbitt
Strange Froots Interview on Fatal Attraction: Wed at 4pm
Coming up on the next Fatal Attraction, (airing at a special time this week: Wed @ 4pm) Patricia has the pleasure of interviewing Strange Froots: a trio of singers-songwriters, musicians and beatmakers, comprised of Mags, SageS and Naïka Champaïgne.
The members of Strange Froots come from backgrounds of the same Black diaspora (including Haiti, Jamaica, Senegal and Ghana) as well as drastically different musical influences. Together they make music to encourage and to empower people everywhere, and to remind us that we’re not alone!
In the next couple of weeks, they’re going to perform at the Free Outdoor edition of Hip-Hop Karaoke Montreal and Femme Fridays at the Allure Bar & Lounge on October 16th. They’ll also be part of a show with the CKUT "Thursdays (A)live" series on October 29th at Ecole house.
You can buy their latest album off of Bandcamp here and all of the proceeds will go to help support No Bad Sound Studios' mission to make young people passionate about music!
Tune in Wednesday at 4pm to hear all this and more, and catch Fatal Attraction every week Sundays at 11am.
News for October 9yh, 2015
Local
by: Alexa Everett
Montreal's Biodome and Insectarium will undergo a $45 million renovation.
According to CBC News, the city's animal attraction will be closed from September 2016 to December 2017 for a $22 million restoration. New features will include a sizeable lobby and a larger Sub-Polar exposition.
National
by Pauline Nesbitt
The Canadian government had suspended the processing of Syrian refugee applications with no links to Canadian communities or organizations, earlier this year.
According to CTV News, insiders in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration claim that the government had used this move to garner votes from church groups and communities that had applied for Syrian refugees. In particular, applications from Shia and Sunni Muslims were being discouraged. However, the government denied this claim and stated that the processing of all applications was suspended while an audit to protect public security was performed.
Conservative Candidate and Transport Minister, Lisa Raitt, stated that the purpose of the audit was to identify the most vulnerable refugee applicants and to ensure that the appropriate security considerations were applied.
Following this revelation, the Conservatives have pledged to speed up the processing of Syrian refugee applications and have set a resettlement target of 10,000 by September 2016.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have reported their first week with no new cases of Ebola since 2014.
International
by Patricia Petit-Liang
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have reported their first week with no new cases of Ebola since 2014
According to CBC News, 11 000 people have lost their lives to the disease in what was the worst outbreak of Ebola in all of human history.
Despite this hopeful news, the World Health Organization claims that there is still a possibility of the disease breaking out again.
October 9th, 2015
Hosted by: Julian Mckenzie
Stories by: Alexa Evrett, Pauline Nesbitt, Patricia Petit-Liang
Produced by: Emeline Vidal
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