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Accurso quits the construction business
According to CBC’s French-language service, Tony Accurso, Quebec’s construction magnate is leaving the business.
Accurso wrote to his employees and stated that it’s time to leave the company in the hands of younger and more energetic people and also apologized for the public controversy related to the company.
Accurso believes that the company will be better off without him and that he had no choice be to leave. In an interview with La Presse newspaper, Accruso described his over 1 billion-dollar company as the jewel of Quebec.
A consulting firm has been hired to help chart the company’s fiuture. Ideas of a merger, sale or splitting the company up have not been pushed aside.
In the last five decades, Accurso and the companies he is connected to have aided in almost every major construction project in Montreal.
According to CBC, Although Accurso has denied all allegations, he has been the target of Montreal’s anti-corruption squad and his name has been raised at the Charbonneau commission investigating allegations of corruption in the construction industry.
There has been quite a bit of controversy around the Accurso name, as companies controlled by his family have been convicted of tax fraud and had their licenses suspend.
Not only that, but Accurso was charged with fraud, conspiracy, influence peddling, breach of trust and two counts of defrauding the government last April. He was also arrested in early August on charges linked to a multimillion-dollar tax-evasion conspiracy.
In recent years, Accurso’s daughter has been handling much of the day-to-day running of the family business.
October 16th, 2012
Hosted by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Saturn de Los Angeles, Catlin Spencer & Danny Aubry
Produced by: Catlin Spencer
Concordia president's salary going up
ConU’s presidential salary will be rising.
According to a report by The Link, Alan Shepard’s salary will be $ 357 000 a year. This rise is $7 000 more per year than the last three presidents.
According to his contract which was obtained by The Link, Shepard will also receive $4 200 per month as a housing allowance.
The news of the rise in salary has not been well received among Concordia students. Concordia student and former undergrad rep on Concordia’s Board of Governors, Cameron Monagle took issue with how Shepard’s contract was negotiated last Spring.
With this increase Concordia University’s presidents remain some of the highest paid in the province.
Flickr photo by: Viola Ng
France revamps neutral policy of Quebec seperatism
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois visited France and met President Francois Hollande at the Elysee palace in Paris.
According to CBC News Hollande stated that he is neither for or against the idea of an independent Quebec.
France`s neutral policy on the seperation of Quebec was introduced in the 1970`s, but was frozen during the Sarkozy era.
Quebec seperatists have always sought support from France, believing that obtaining support from a foreign country would help them become independent.
With or without France`s support Quebec will not seperate anytime soon with recent surveys indicating a miniscule amount of Quebecers favouring seperatism.
October 15th, 2012
Hosted by: Hannah Besseau
Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Alyssa Tremblay & Daniel J. Rowe
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Montreal "Officer 728" revised notes according to witness
Constable Stéfanie Trudeau may be in more trouble than she is already in.
According to a report by CBC News, Catia Moreau witnessed the arrest in question on October 2nd and overheard Trudeau tell fellow officers what to write in their notes so that she wouldn’t get into trouble.
The officers huddled under Moreau’s balcony to discuss how to write up what happened.
Meanwhile another video of the arrest has surfaced on You Tube. It shows Trudeau yelling at the man she was arresting and a witness. It also shows Trudeau using expletives when describing the people involved on a call to her supervisor.
"Officer 728: has since been suspended as the SPVM investigates the latest complaint against her. Police chief Marc Parent apologized for Trudeau’s actions last Thursday.
Private schools willing to accept more challenged students
There could be a cut to revenue for Quebec private schools on the horizon.
According to the Gazette, 324 Quebec private schools could have their revenue cut by as much as 60 percent if they start accepting more students with learning disabilities.
PQ Education minister Marie Malavoy made the proposal on Friday in the National Assembly.
Private schools have been criticized by the public school system for accepting only the brightest kids and rejects children with learning disabilities or other handicaps. The public system has also criticized the province’s subsidies to private schools.
Around 125 000 Quebec students attend private schools. In figures released by the Education department from the 07-08 school year the province gave $450 million to private schools.
The EricTheTutor SexTape
"The EricTheTutor SexTape" is a mixtape curated by the host of The Limelight, DJ Eric The Tutor. It is pure sex magic.
Track List
1. Jeremih - Fuck You All the Time
2. The Weeknd - Trust Issues
3. Frank Ocean feat. Andre 3000 – Pink Matter
4. Alex Clare – Damn Your Eyes (Etta James Cover)
5. Ellie Goulding – High for This (The Weeknd Cover)
6. ANGO – Get Out of My Life (*Tutor's Pick*)
7. Marvin Gaye - Ain’t That Peculiar (Summer Madness Remix)
8. Janet Jackson – That's the Way Love Goes (Kaytradamus Remix)
9. Miguel – Kaleidascope Dreams
10. Aakuyah feat. Drake - Enough Said (EricTheTutor’s Drakeless cuz Drake done swore too much edit)
11. NVS – Between My Thighs
12. Miguel - Vixen
13. Los Rakas Play
14. Drake – Fall for Your Type (Original)
15. Jeremih - Late Nights
16. I/O – You Slay Me
17. SWV – Rain (Kaytradamus Remix)
18. Miguel - Adorn (Already on a previous mix but mad peeps calling for it)
19. The XX – Swept Away (Sleeper track!! Brrraaand new)
*Myriam's Bonus Track Selection*
20. Jhene Aiko - For My Brother
Das Humans
Looking for a little bit of dance on your Sunday? Well, Grade A Explosives has Vancouver group Humans coming in after there Saturday performance at Divan Orange right before heading down Halifax and then New York for CMJ. Listen as host, Andrew talks to them about touring in Canada, the state of electronic music, and the increasing amount of bear attacks in North America. They'll also be supplying you with some of their favorite tracks and of course, stuff from theit album, Traps. So, tune in from 4-6PM to Grade A Explosives and get ready to party.
Stab Ability - Work On Love
Work On Love, the recent release by Montreal’s Stab Ability (by way of Chicago and Halifax), is a nine-track electro space vehicle that transports you to far off galaxies. This album showers the listener with a variety of electric noises and sounds, which are playfully added and subtracted throughout the entire 50 minute LP. At times you feel as if these noises could be the sound coming from your aural spaceship, at other times you think maybe you’ve stumbled on some distant life form eaves dropping on their conversations, or perhaps it’s the sound stars make when you pass them by. Amongst the pulses and cacophony of noises and effects, Stab Ability’s Eli Hason and Jon Hill, ensure that there is just enough structure so that you don’t make a wrong turn and head down some one-way vortex.
The album begins strongly with the aptly named “Wander”, whose upbeat feel fills you with a desire for exploration. “Coin Locker” builds from a slow wave to a blob of a pulse that ensnares you.
“Catface Mountain Tidepools” continues with a darker narrative infused with really dissonant sounds. These sounds are eventually subdued only to claw there way back near the end of the track in a dizzying mix of noise and chaos.
A true highlight of the album, “Here Come The Summerpunks” is a track engulfed by wafts of synth that seem almost endless in length. Alongside which are beautifully interwoven subtle sounds.
“Divine Swap” begins with a variety of different noises pulsing in and around your head, slowly building to a nice steady groove.
The album’s otherworldly theme is held throughout, accentuated by its dissonant sounds. An album such as this has the potential to fall of the rails, but this does not happen in this case. Montreal’s music scene is wonderfully diverse and Stab Ability’s Work On Love adds to this tapestry.
FINAL MARK : B+
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