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October 8th, 2012

Hosted by: Catlin Spencer

Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Alyssa Tremblay & Aisha Samu

Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi

One arrested in rally against police brutality

350 people took to the streets in Montreal to protest police brutality.

According to CBC News, the protest started at 9pm on Saturday evening at Place Emilie-Gamelin. The protest was deemed illegal by Montreal police because a planned route wasn't given, but they allowed it to continue.

SPVM Sgt. Laurent Gingras stated that 2 flares were shot and some construction signs were taken down. One person was arrested for firing a flare but was freed after being given a ticket.

The protest was over by 11pm. A facebook page of the event mentions that Montreal police have rejected 46 complaints from the student crisis.

Triple murder suspect arrested in Florida

A man wanted in connection with 3 deaths in northern Quebec has been arrested in Florida.

According to the Gazette, 35 year-old Justin Bresaw was arrested in Tallahasee, Florida early Sunday morning. He was found charging his laptop at an electrical outlet behind a church. He resisted arrest and left 2 officers with a broken nose.

The man is the suspect in a deadly house fire that killed two men and one woman in Amos, Quebec located 500 kilometres north of Montreal.

Bresaw has been on the run since September 17th and has been on Canada's most wanted list since then.

He was booked at a Florida county jail and faces additional charges of violence and battery.

Protests coincide with Putin's 60th birthday celebrations

At least six protesters were arrested in Moscow Sunday in demonstrations that marked Russian President Vladimir Putin's 60th birthday.

Around two hundred protesters were calling for answers in the death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Politkovskaya is known for vocally criticizing Putin's policies in Chechnya. She was shot in her apartment building in 2006.

According to Al-Jazeera, Putin was away from the protests, celebrating his birthday with family in St. Petersburg.

The protests come as Russian investigators look in to a documentary film alleging a potential overthrow of Putin's government.

The documentary claimed there were plans for a mass riot and that an opposition protest leader would receive foreign help in the overthrow.

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October 5th, 2012

Hosted & Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi

Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Catlin Spencer & Hannah Besseau

Beef recall list grows

Step 4The list of beef products incoming from Alberta grew once again on Thursday.

In a report by the Gazette, The Canadian Food Inspection Agency added a dozen of products sold across the country to the long list of recalled beef.

The beef in question came from an XL Foods plant located in Alberta. The plant was the centre of a recent E. coli outbreak.

Opposition MPs have been hammering the Tori government all week in its handling of what’s now known as the largest food recall in Canada. They said that funding cuts to the CFIA made the problems worse.

The recalls began on September 16th and have since grown to include more than 1500 beef products sold in Canada and the US.

Flickr Photo by: BrownGuacamole

Laval mayor’s home/offices searched in UPAC raid

Quebec’s anti-corruption squad launched raids of the home and offices of Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt.

According to CBC News, about 70 agents from UPAC made their presence felt at Vaillancourt’s house, city hall and buildings housing Laval’s engineering and HR departments.

UPAC began their operation at around 3:45 Thursday afternoon. Workers at city hall had to leave the building while agents looked for documents and seized computer hardware.

The raids are part of an investigation into the awarding of contracts. Vaillencourt himself has been alleged of political irregularity for about 2 years. He has been accused of offering illegal cash contributions to the campaigns of a PQ and Liberal candidate.

The longtime mayor of the Montreal suburb has denied any wrongdoings. He was not present at any of the location when the raids took place.

Romney does better than Obama in Denver Presidential Debate

Presidential Debate - October 3rd, 2012After the first Presidential Debate between Republican Candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, the vote is in that Romney outshined Obama.

On Romney's agenda was Obama's future economic plan and criticizing what the President has done so far with the United States` economy. Romney pointed out that Obama has failed to reduce the country's $16-trillion deficit and claimed that Obama`s economic plan will, in the long-run, hurt small businesses. Romney promised to create tax-cuts thst will help the middle-class and create more jobs for the 23 million Americans out of work.

Obama kept his cool during Romeny's attack, and stated that Romney's tax-cuts will actually increase the deficit instead of reducing it.

Memorable quotes from last night's speech include Romney stating that he will cut any programs that increase government spending, like PBS, home to the children's show Sesame Street. Romney stated, "I'm not going to keep spending on things we need to borrow money from China to pay for." Obama blamed the country's deficit on former president George W. Bush Jr. who stared two wars and paid for them on a credit card.

October 2, 2012

Read and Produced by Nikita Smith

Stories by Jaime-Lee Gordon, Niki Mohrdar, Gregory Wilson

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