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SPVM begins crackdown on student movement
Montreal police are cracking down heavily on the student movement.
In a report by the Canadian University Press, SPVM officers who dealt with the protests stemming from tuition increases by the Liberal party last spring, put an end to the latest march on March 22nd in ten minutes.
Students are on the streets once again, to denounce the tuition increase of 70 dollars a year over the next five years put in place by the Parti Quebecois during the summit on higher education last month.
Once the summit ended, every protest ended in mass arrests, something that did not occur last year during the maple spring movement.
Those marches although deemed illegal with the bylaw passed by the then ruling Liberals were allowed to march for hours on end by the police. Arrests were made on only a few occasions.
On March 22nd, 2012, it marked the first of many nightly protests organised by student unions to denounce the tuition hike in which 200 000 people took part.
This year on the same date, protesting the P.Q.'s recent ruling, 300 people began a march only to be stopped by officers 10 minutes later, and resulted in the protest of 200 people.
Flickr Photo by: Viola Ng
March 23rd on The Limelight
Tune in to The Limelight on Saturday, March 23rd at 6-8 PM EST for an interview with Sarah MK and Jahsun Drms from the Kalmunity Vibe Collective. Kalmunity is celebrating their 10-year anniversary on March 30th, and we'll be talking to them about their success in the Montreal scene over the last ten years.
CJLO News - March 22 2013
Hosted by: Saturn De Los Angeles
Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Alyssa Tremblay & Catlin Spencer
Produced by: Catlin Spencer
New federal budget unveiled Thursday
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty revealed the new federal budget on Thursday.
There are no tax cuts and little new spending in this year’s budget, the CBC reported.
That’s because the government is fighting to eliminate an 18.7 billion dollar deficit by 2015.
Some of the highlights from the 2013 budget include of a new program called Canada Job Grants.
The program will dole out 300 million dollars in grants for skills and training for workers.
Another $70 million over three years was promised to go towards paid internships for new graduates.
The budget also got rid of import tariffs on certain consumer products like sports equipment and baby clothes which were considered overpriced when compared to U.S. prices.
Flickr Photo by: Ontario Chamber of Commerce
STORY WRITTEN BY: ALYSSA TREMBLAY
Pressure mounts for legal transparency in Montreal politics
The time for secrets could be over soon in Montreal politics.
In a report by the Gazette, a former Montreal city councilor told the paper on Thursday that legal transparency at Montreal city hall should be a priority to the provincial government.
Richard Théorêt says that legislating transparency at the municipal level will bring an end or deal a blow to possible corruption and collusion.
Théorêt has been campaigning for executive committee meetings to be public. Interim mayor Michael Applebaum made that possible when he took office in November following Gerard Tremblay’s abrupt resignation.
Public servants and city councilors have been under the microscope over their involvement in the corruption and collusion scandal rocking Quebec’s construction industry.
Executive committee meetings once held behind closed doors was the floor where city contracts were handed out and anything involving city policy is hammered out.
Flickr Photo by: ArturoYee
Protest graffiti to be kept at UQAM
The graffiti left behind from last spring’s student movement at UQAM may be there to stay.
According to CBC News, the university is considering the possibility of keeping the different tags that were scribbled all over their walls.
Students at UQAM want the walls to remain as they are because they don’t see it as graffiti but a statement.
UQAM spokeswoman Jenny Desrochers said that the community is divided over preservation or cleaning over the drawings on corridor walls.
There are only ten corridors in 30 university buildings that were painted over during the “printemps erable” protests.
Flickr Photo by: Traveling Mermaid
CJLO News - March 21 2013
Host: Catlin Spencer
Stories by: Alyssa Tremblay, Chloe Deneumoustier. Aisha Samu & Daniel Rowe
Produced by: Jenna Monney-Lupert
More evidence points to power Zampino held during collusion
A witness at the Charbonneau Commission called Frank Zampino the most powerful man in Montreal.
Rosaire Sauriol made the statement during his second day testifying at the commission on Tuesday, the Montreal Gazette reported.
He’s accusing Zampino of holding more influence during his time at as chair of the city’s executive committee than former mayor Gérald Tremblay.
However commission investigators are questioning whether or not Sauriol himself played a larger role in shaping the system of collusion at city hall.
Sauriol is vice-president of the engineering firm Desseau and is closely linked to Zampino.
He hired Zampino to be an executive at his firm in 2008.
STORY WRITTEN BY: ALYSSA TREMBLAY
Prisoners on hungers strike at Guantanamo
It’s the prison that simply will not be closed.
Guantanamo bay prison remains open four years after president Barack Obama said he would close it.
The news that the prison would not be closed has led 24 devastated prisoners to go on a hunger strike.
It is an effort to get the prison back in the media.
Eight lost so many pounds that doctors were led to force-feed them liquid nutrients through tubes.
Guantanamo holds 166 prisoners who were captured in overseas counterterrorism operations after 9 11.
Nearly all have been held for 11 years without charge.
Half have been cleared for transfer or release.
Flickr Photo by: Iain Farrell
STORY WRITTEN BY: DANIEL J. ROWE
First Nations leaders fighting proposed pipelines
A group of First Nations leaders has come together to fight proposed new pipelines.
CBC News reports Native leaders from Canada and the U.S. gathered on Parliament Hill Wednesday to show opposition to the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines.
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says the federal government is communicating with First Nations.
He calls the proposed pipelines an opportunity to transform aboriginal communities hurt from high unemployment.
Nadleh Whut'en First Nation Chief Marin Louie says that opposition to the pipelines goes beyond Native issues.
The federal government recently appointed a special envoy to look at tensions between First Nations and the energy industry.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt says Canada has the genius to develop natural resources while protecting the environment.
Flickr Photo by: FreeRishad
STORY WRITTEN BY: AISHA SAMU
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