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Riot in Blainville leads to mass arrests
A night of celebration turned to rioting Saturday night in Blainville, leading to the arrest of almost 20 people.
According to CTV News, the riot started shortly after about 200 people refused to leave after an outdoor performance by Les Trois Accords at the Blainville en fete festival.
Rioters tossed objects at police, including bottles, and flipped a police car and set it on fire.
Local police, along with the SQ and other nearby local forces, arrested 19 people, 10 of which were minors between the ages of 14 and 22.
All those arrested were freed on the condition that they return to court later to face charges, likely including rioting, mischief and arson.
Reports say that at one point, the ratio of youth to officers was roughly one thousand to eighty.
STORY WRITTEN BY: CATLIN SPENCER
QS joins campaign against Russian anti-gay legislation
Quebec Solidaire is joining the campaign against Russia’s controversial anti-gay legislation.
The Gazette is reporting the political party made their presence felt on the streets during Pride community day supporting sexual diversity.
They hope to put pressure on the Canadian government and the country’s Olympic committees to make a move announcing their disapproval of the law passed in June.
Quebec Solidaire candidate Manon Massé says that she believes civil society can organize and put significant pressure on corporate sponsors.
The goal is to have sponsors drop out of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games if the law is not scrapped.
Flickr Photo by: jofo2005
STORY WRITTEN BY: NATASHA TAGGART
North Korea agrees to resume family reunifications with South Korea
North Korea has reached an agreement with South Korea to resume family reunions of those separated in the Korean War.
The reunions will take place in a North Korean tourist resort on September 19th. South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye had urged for the continuation of the family reunifications last week.
North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea stated, “the reunion of separated families and their relatives shall be made in Mount Kumgang resort on the occasion of the upcoming Harvest Moon Day."
Red Cross officials from both countries will meet on August 23rd at the Mount Kumgang resort in order to prepare for the reunions.
Thousands of families were separated at the end of the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953.
The two countries technically remain at war since the conflict ended with an armistice. The divided families have not been able to see each other since the end of combat.
STORY WRITTEN BY: SPOON JUNG
Heavy MTL & Summer Slaughter Recap This Sunday
Summer Slaughter and Heavy MTL are over, but if you feel like reliving the memories, Orin from The Noisy Loft and Andrew from Grade A Explosives are here to help. Listen to them on Sunday (Grade A Explosives 3-6PM, The Noisy Loft from 8-9PM) where they'll play interviews from all sorts of bands that played during the weekend, including Norma Jean, Vinnie Paul (Hellyeah, Pantera), Periphery, Animals as Leaders, John 5 (Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson) Aeon, and Jason Newsted (Newsted, Metallica) among others. Tune in Sunday starting at 3PM for all of this and more.
CJLO News - August 16 2013
Hosted by: Satrun De Los Angeles
Stories by: Hannah Besseau, Catlin Spencer & Saturn De Los Angeles
Produced by: Spoon Jung
FunkShui Presents: Otakuthon Funkathon
Otakuthon is Quebec's largest festival celebrating Japanese animation (anime), graphic novels (manga), related gaming, and pop culture. In honour of the festival happening this weekend, FunkShui will be airing a FUNKathon & discussing their favourite moments of Otakuthon. Be sure to tune in this Sunday, August 18th from 2-3pm on 1690 AM, online, or iTunes radio.
CJLO News - August 14 2013
Hosted by: Saturn de Los Angeles
Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Kristobal Eugenio & Hannah Besseau
Produced by: Catlin Spencer
MMA to cease operations in Canada
The Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway’s operations in Canada have been halted.
CBC News reports that the Canadian Transportation Agency pulled the MMA’s certificate of fitness to conduct business in Canada.
The agency stated that the railway company doesn’t have a sufficient amount of third party liability insurance or to pay the self-imposed insurance.
These two measures are necessary for a railway company to conduct business in Canada.
The company’s ability to afford its insurance has come under fire after the massive debts it has incurred after the Lac-Megantic train disaster, which claimed 47 lives last July 6th.
The company also filed for and was granted bankruptcy protection on August 8th.
The order will be in effect as of August 20th. It gives the MMA enough time to wrap up their business in Canada.
Toronto Plaza Hotel strike on 11th week, still waiting for results
This week marks week 11 of the Toronto Plaza Hotel's employee strike.
On May 30, about forty workers at the 200-room hotel walked off the job. They have been protesting wage and benefit cuts ever since.
According to the Toronto Star, employees accepted a wage freeze and cuts to their benefits in 2011. Benefits were supposed to be reinstated in spring of 2013, but never were.
Hotel owner Rehan Chaudary said he would like to give his employees "a very good package", but is unable to because the hotel is struggling.
A rally will be held in front of the hotel by the Ontario Federation of Labour on Thursday, August 15.
STORY WRITTEN BY: KRISTOBAL M. EUGENIO
North Carolina signs Photo I.D. law
North Carolina has signed in to law a contentious bill requiring voters to show photo IDs at polls.
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed the bill into law despite the controversy of the bill’s potential discrimination against marginal communities.
The bill was enacted as a means to eliminate voting fraud, a crime which has been reported as being relatively uncommon throughout the country.
Gerrymandering and poll restrictions are not new to the state of North Carolina, according to the BBC, the Voting Rights Act originally aimed to fight entrenched racism in the voting system.
Republican governor McCrory still affirms that if photo IDs are required for other common practices such as plane boarding, people should also be expected to require similar IDs for voting.
The law also will ban election-day registration.
Many have jumped to the forefront against this issue, including the American Civil Liberties Union and former secretary of State Hilary Clinton, each denouncing the justice of the bill as discriminatory.
Flickr Photo by: Mr. T in DC
STORY WRITTEN BY: HANNAH BESSEAU
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