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CJLO News - March 4 2013
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Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Nikita Smith, Kurt Weiss & Natasha Taggart
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Unemployment at a E.U. record in Greece
In Greece, layoffs have been ruled out with unemployment at a European record of 27 per cent, as stated in a report by the Guardian.
The country was heading for a full-on collision with its international creditors on Sunday.
Representatives of the creditors: the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank discussed the situation in Greece.
Finance minister Yannis Stournaras said the public sector has shrunk by seventy-five thousand people in the last year and a half.
But still, he told a newspaper there would be no layoffs.
Stournaras has now come across hostility from within the government.
Athens agreed to cut one hundred and fifty thousand jobs from its public sector by 2015.
That’s part of a wide-ranging package of improvements for the country.
But the conservative-led administration has faced growing pressure from its leftwing junior partners.
Leader of the Democratic Left Fotis Kouvellis said that with 1.4 million Greeks now unemployed, the thought of losing even more work could threaten the already fragile social peace.
Economists are calling the situation a “great depression” as Greece is projected to see unemployment pass thirty per cent by the end of the year.
Flickr Photo by: ines saraiva
STORY WRITTEN BY: KURT WEISS
Security deployed prior to important election in Kenya
Over 99-thousand police officers will be deployed around Kenya as the country prepares for -what some say is- the most crucial election in its history.
According to BBC News, candidates are urging the public to stay peaceful in hopes to avoid a repeat of violence that coincided with the 2007 post-election. Over one-thousand people were killed due to a conflict of rival parties.
Kenyans will be electing a new president, members of parliament, country governors and members of the new county assembly. Results will be announced on March 11.
Flickr Photo by: Pompeychucks
STORY WRITTEN BY: NATASHA TAGGART
Chinese and South Asian communities call B.C. Liberals dishonest
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has issued an apology after a document was leaked explaining how the liberal party planned to win ethnic votes in the upcoming election.
According to the CBC, members of Vancouver’s Chinese and South Asian communities are calling the B.C liberal party dishonest after learning of the party’s plan to get votes from ethnic groups with their Multicultural Strategy.
Though Clark apologized for how the document was worded, Bill Chu of the Canadian Reconciliation Society called the apology unacceptable and stated that the Multicultural Strategy was full of disrespect.
While Clark says she does not know who drafted the document that was leaked by the NDP, the Vancouver Province newspaper claims it has proof that one of Clark’s chiefs of staff gave advice when the document was being written.
British Columbia’s next provincial election is scheduled for May 14.
Bribe money leads trail from Montreal to Bahamas, Tunisia
A trail of the money used in kickbacks in relation to the MUHC super hospital project has been made public.
According to the Gazette, the trail of the mysterious disappearance of over twenty-two million from SNC-Lavalin shows payments to former directors of the MUHC.
UPAC investigators uncovered a link between SNC-Lavalin executives and MUHC officials. The prognosis reveals a conspiracy to defraud the government and the hospital to pocket the profits.
The trail leads to Sierra Asset Management in the Bahamas and an unnamed company in Tunisia receiving kickbacks from the project.
UPAC arrested former executives and directors of SNC-Lavalin and the MUHC. Former MUHC director, Dr. Arthur Porter was issued an arrest warrant; however, because of his dwindling health, he is unable to leave the Bahamas.
CJLO News - March 1 2013
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Stories by: Alyssa Tremblay, Catlin Spencer & Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Produced by: Catlin Spencer
NDP leader urges MP to resign after defection
An MP formerly of the NDP then later defecting to the Bloc Quebecois is urged to resign from his seat in the House of Commons.
According to CBC News, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is urging Claude Patry to resign as an MP after his defection to the separatist party. He is pushing for a by-election in the Jonquiére-Alma riding.
Patry’s defection comes on the heels of a critical vote on a B.Q. private members bill. If passed, the bill would repeal the Clarity Act drawn up thirteen years ago, which sets rules for future referendums on separation from Canada.
Patry’s defection is the third to affect the NDP since the orange wave swept Quebec during the last federal election in twenty-eleven. One defected to the Liberals and another MP is now sitting as an independent.
The change now brings the number of Bloc Quebecois MPs in the House of Commons to five.
SPVM officers' union protests end to project
Montreal police officers took to the streets in protest on Thursday morning.
Union members demonstrated in front of the police headquarters on Saint Urbain Street.
The union is upset over a change to their work schedules, according to the CBC.
The protest was spurred by the city of Montreal’s decision to end a pilot project.
The project allowed police officers to work three-day weeks with extended hours.
Union president Yves Francoeur says that the new work schedules are unfair and outdated.
Tensions between the city and the police union are high.
Last Friday Mayor Michael Applebaum said that Francoeur personally threatened him to try to get him to extend the pilot project.
Francoeur denies the accusation.
STORY WRITTEN BY: ALYSSA TREMBLAY
CJLO News - February 28 2013
Hosted by: Catlin Spencer
Stories by: Saturn De Los Angeles, Chloe Deneumoustier, Alyssa Tremblay & Aisha Samu
Produced by: Jenna Monney-Lupert
3% tuition hike disguised as virtual "freeze" - student groups shun PQ decision
This week's Summit on Higher Education initially proposed a virtual "freeze" on tuition fee hikes.
But upon finding out it was a three percent hike, student groups responded with disappointment.
The Montreal Media Co-op reports that the Quebec government proposed a kind of price adjustment - called an Indexation - to reflect the province's current social and economic status.
This indexation called for a three percent annual increase in tuition fees, and a three percent increase cap on “ancillary fees”.
Ancillary fees are fees that universities charge students annually for administrative and service costs.
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois says indexing fees was "… another kind of tuition freeze" that's based on current economic data. That includes a hike of household revenue and an ongoing annual inflation rate.
Many names used for the proposal include a "70 dollar-per-year increase," and an increase in line with the growth of household income.
The proposal was made before the summit began on Monday. It received negative feedback from student groups.
The virtual freeze could also potentially provoke them to return to the streets and protest, according to the Media Co-op.
ASSÉ boycotted attending the summit beforehand upon finding out their hopes for free tuition were shelved by the Indexation.
Meanwhile the FEUQ chose to attend the summit to have their voice heard. After the talks however, they declared that any tuition increase was unacceptable.
STORY WRITTEN BY: SATURN DE LOS ANGELES
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