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City council votes to keep bylaw P-6
Montreal city council voted Tuesday to keep the controversial protest bylaw P-6.
CBC news reports a group of people watching the debate on a video feed tried to enter city council chambers following the vote.
Unable to enter the group blocked entrance to the chambers with an impromptu sit-in.
Projet Montréal councilor Alex Norris put forward the motion to amend the bylaw that he calls unconstitutional.
The bylaw prohibits demonstrators from wearing masks and requires advanced notice of protest routes.
On Monday, hundreds of people protested against the bylaw outside of city hall with two arrests made.
Flickr Photo by: northernrays
STORY WRITTEN BY: AISHA SAMU
ConU worker's union to stage protest Thursday
Concordia’s unionized technicians will be staging a protest on Thursday afternoon.
They are unhappy at how the University’s administration is unable to reach agreements to renew their collective agreements, according to a press release by the Confederation des Syndicats Nationaux or C-S-N.
The move comes after they unanimously turned down an offer for a salary increase at a general assembly on Monday.
Alex Macpherson is the president for the unionized technicians.
He says the University quote - never fails to find money - for administrators' to have salary hikes, while the workers are keeping face with the cost of living.
They will be joining with other workers unions from the University’s library and support sector.
The union is asking for salaries to meet the cost of inflation, as well as improved health care benefits and standardized leave periods.
Their last collective agreement expired in 20-09.
STORY WRITTEN BY: SATURN DE LOS ANGELES
Canada Post will lose $1 billion a year by 2020
By: Lostcork
According to a report by the Conference Board of Canada, the Canada Post will be losing one billion dollars a year by 2020 due to plummeting mail volumes. The report also includes some contentious ways for the Crown corporation to tackle the issue.
The report states that the volume of mail will drop more than 25 per cent over the next seven years. Parcel volume, while not making up for the lack of mail volume, will increase due to the growing popularity of e-commerce.
The report finds that nearly half of all Canadian households send no more than two pieces of mail every month.
With the invention of electronic bills, online deposits and online advertising, Canadians are now being asked what kind of postal service they’ll be needing in the years to come.
Canada post had recorded profit for 16 years, but now, they expect substantial financial loss in 2013.
However, Canada is not the only country with a decline in mail volume. The U.S. postal service has reported an annual loss of $15.9 billion US.
Thus far, the Canadian Conference Board has suggested five options for Canada Post: wage restraint, alternate-day delivery mail (not including parcels), eliminating door-to-door delivery and establishing centralized mail points, delivery facilities or rural mailboxes. They’ve also suggested to further replacement of corporate poste offices with franchised post outlets and to reduce the speed of delivery.
CJLO News - April 23 2013
Hosted by: Gabrielle Fahmy
Stories by: Gregory Wilson, Spoon Jung, Jenna Monney-Lupert & Danny Aubry
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Hundreds protest Bylaw P-6 at city hall
Hundreds of people protested against the city’s bylaw limiting protests outside city hall on Monday evening.
According to the Gazette, councillors were meeting at city hall for a monthly council meeting.
They’re expected to vote on whether to repeal the advance-notice and no-masks components of the P-6 bylaw.
Protesters denounced the bylaw, saying it is ‘‘criminalizing dissent.’’
The bylaw was adopted last May at the height of the student protests. Under P-6, each protester can be fined $637 if they don’t give their route in advance.
About 800 Montrealers received these fines in recent weeks after officers declared their protests illegal.
Flickr Photo by: niXerKG
STORY WRITTEN BY: GREGORY WILSON
Montreal looks to form cycling committee
Montreal is aiming to match the pace of other urban cycling centers by forming a new committee designed to examine cycling issues across the island.
Such committees already exist in large Canadian centers like Toronto and Vancouver.
The cycling committee is comprised of city representatives, the transit authority, the police, as well as members of the cycling community.
Pierre-Luc Auclair from the Montreal Bike Coalition, a sitting member, said he likes that the city is including cyclists as partners in the initiative.
Chair of STM, Michel Labrecque said although Montreal has accomplished much in the absence of an official cycling group, more work will have to be done to bring Montreal up to par with renowned bike-friendly cities such as Amsterdam.
The cycling committee is set to convene twice a year and to provide an annual report to the city’s executive committee.
Flickr Photo by: James D. Schwartz
STORY WRITTEN BY: SPOON JUNG
Human Rights group wants U.N. accountable after abuse goes unpunished
Human Rights groups from Haiti want to hold the United Nations more accountable after a Canadian Police officer fled the country after allegedly sexually assaulting a Haitian woman last February.
According to CBC News, the man was among 80 other Canadian officers working for the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti.
Marie Rosy Kesner Auguste Ducena, a lawyer with the Haitian National Human Rights Defence Network, says the officer probably won’t be charged despite the fact that the alleged victim reported the incident to police.
Under UN rules, civilian staff — including police officers — can’t be charged in Canada if a crime is committed abroad.
The accused travelled back to Canada one day after the alleged incident.
Authorities in Canada are carrying out an internal review.
The officer could face disciplinary measures.
In the last six years, 70 cases of sexual abuse by UN personnel in Haiti have been reported, but not one has ended up in a Haitian court.
STORY WRITTEN BY: JENNA MONNEY-LUPERT
India to protect its people from small Chinese invasion
India`s defense Minister has stated that he will do whatever it takes to protect the people from the small Chinese invasion.
According to the Hindu a large group from China`s People`s Liberation Army set up a tented post in eastern Ladakh.
Government sources believe that the Chinese army consists of fifty soldiers and that they arrived on April 15.
Government sources have also stated that India and China have been in touch in order to solve the issue.
CJLO News - April 22 2013
Hosted by: Aisha Samu
Stories by: Spoon Jung, Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Natasha Taggart & Kurt Weiss
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
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