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November 16th, 2012
Hosted by: Hannah Besseau
Stories by: Hannah Besseau, Catlin Spencer & Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
LISTEN TO : Palm Fête - Eyes
Palm Fête throws you back to summertime on a hot, breezy beach - cool, calm and collected. Listen to the brand new track, "Eyes".
November 15th, 2012
Read by: Catlin Spencer
Stories by: Patrick Miller, Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Chloe Deneumoustier and Nikita Smith
Produced by: Alyssa Tremblay
Occupy Wall-Street to unveil new initiative
Occupy Wall Street has just announced the release of its latest project, Rolling Jubilee.
According to Forbes, Rolling Jubilee is a way for Occupy Wall Street to help anyone who has debt to abolish it.
The Occupy movement has already done a test run claiming that by having spent $500 they were able to buy $14,000 worth of outstanding debt. The person with the debt would then have a clean slate. They would owe Occupy Wall Street nothing.
The movement is trying to get more people to donate it funds so they could relieve many debt holders.
This is the latest in a series of initiatives done by the Occupy movement to promote helping one another instead of protesting. Another recent project was Occupy Sandy, which helped with the storm relief effort.
Flickr Photo by: YODCOX!
STORY WRITTEN BY: GREGORY WILSON
Surgical wait times for some women's procedures on the rise
Surgery wait times for ovarian, breast, and cervical cancers in Quebec are triple the government benchmarks.
According to the Gazette, the lack of resources, such as nursing staff and budget cuts, are causing a backlog of surgeries while leaving operating rooms empty.
Experts suggest that gynecological cancers may be the most severe. This cancer usually spreads quickly before it is detected. Rather than waiting four weeks from diagnosis to surgery, patients are waiting as long as three months.
According to Dr. Robert Sabbah, President of the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Quebec, the promise to cut surgery wait times, by the province, saw the most improvements in eye, knee and hip surgeries. It is rare for a doctor to have wait-times less than four weeks.
STORY WRITTEN BY: JAMIE-LEE GORDON
Friday, November 16th on The Reaktor
Tune in to The Reaktor this Friday, November 16th 2-4pm for an interview with Ray Carlisle from Teeange Bottlerocket. The band is opening for the Dropkick Murphys at Metropolis (59 rue Sainte-Catherine E.) on Sunday, November 18th.
November 14, 2012
Read by Sarah Deshaies
Produced by Nikita Smith
Stories by Audrey Folliot, Jaime-Lee Gordon, and Gregory Wilson
Demand for public inquiry on police brutality renewed
The fair amount of police brutality that has been reported during last spring’s numerous protests against tuition hikes still make the news today.
Groups, such as Amnesty International and the Ligue des droits et libertés, denounce the violent treatments that some students faced at the time.
According to The Gazette, as many as fifty-one groups have renewed their demand for a public inquiry on the matter.
Those acts of violence include being beaten, pepper sprayed, charged by police officers on horseback and attained by plastic bullets, says the article.
The directives given by the previous Charest government to the officers during the period of the strike are not clear, and groups also want to shed light on that.
As many as 16,000 names have so far been gathered on two petitions in support of the cause.
Newly elected Premier Pauline Marois cancelled Charest’s proposed tuition hike soon after her election last September.
Éliane Laberge, president of the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec and Martine Desjardins, president of the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec both hope for a public inquiry.
They defend the right to demonstrate freely and without fear, which the most controversial sections of Law 12 where taking away.
At the same time as she cancelled the tuition hikes, Marois had also repealed those sections of Law 12, she who proudly wore the red square during last spring’s demonstrations.
Violent Future - Street Prowler (PREVIEW TRACK)
Check out the first release off Violent Future's self titled and debut release. Immaculate production for a heavy set EP soon to be released and reviewed. Listen here.
Home Movies - PG-13
PG-13 is the latest release by Oshawa’s Michael Milosh, formerly of By Devine Right, under the Home Movies moniker. To be frank, this particular album doesn’t do it for me, and while the album grew on me after listening to it several times, it wasn’t enough to influence my initial reactions to the album. I find that there are few elements that work for me; in general I find the album lacks a sense of cohesiveness. Different idea threads strung along leaving me confused as to where Home Movies is coming from and where they are going. There is a mish mash of influences found throughout the album but presented in a way that leaves you feeling as if Home Movies haven’t quite figured themselves out yet; they are asking a lot of the listener in this regard.
Additionally, I don’t find the LP terribly accessible. It’s as if the album is one big inside joke that I’m not privy too, which makes it seem as if the joke is on me, the listener.
Musically, the album relies on the guitar work of Milosh, who presents himself as quite capable if unspectacular. There is a rawness found throughout, amplified by Milosh’s raspy and at times screeching voice, which is a real strength. Tracks like “Melon Collies”, “Headlines” and “Pisstank Serenade” give us a glimmer of what Home Movies can do, the energy they have and the kind of fun they try to project, but on a twelve-track album, these highlights are few and far between.
FINAL MARK: C
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