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News August 6th 2012
Hosted by Aisha Samu
Produced by Erica Bridgeman
Writres: Aisha Samu and Carlo Spiridigliozzi and Niki Mohrdar
Shooting rampage claims 7 lives
A shooting rampage at a Sikh temple claimed 7 lives including the shooter’s on Sunday in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
According to CNN, the FBI will investigate the shooting as a domestic terrorist case. Three people were wounded including a police officer.
The attack occurred when temple members were reading scriptures and cooking food in preparation for the Sunday service and community lunch.
Initial reports believed that were multiple shooters involved, but police did not find any evidence to support that claim.
Police have not found a motive for the shooting. Witnesses describe the shooter as a bald white male with a 9/11 tattoo.
Jacques Duchesneau joins the CAQ
Anti-corruption whistleblower Jacques Duchesneau is the newest candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec, reports CBC news.
He stated a need to fight corruption from the inside in his reason for participating in the political scene.
Duchesneau will be running in the riding of St-Jerôme, where he currently lives.
The former Montreal Police Chief is most noted for leaking a report on corruption and collusion in the construction industry. His profile in Quebec increased after he testified at the Charbonneau Comission on corruption.
Duchesneau called the timing of the election call disgraceful. He believes that people should know what the Charbonneau Comission plans to reveal before heading to the polls.
Acquiring Duchesneau increases the credibility of the young party intent on making the fight against corruption an important issue.
A vote to change the student strike in Quebec
Quebec’s student strikers will now be facing a crucial moment as they decide whether or not to return to classes in the fall. The strike, which has been occurring since spring, has made it into international news.
Starting Tuesday, Students in the CLASSE association will vote over a nine-day period about whether or not to head back to class when it reopens mid-month. These votes will mark the end of this six-month battle of students fighting against tuition hikes.
Students now have a tough choice to make: to end their battle or continue it and risk the re-election of the Charest government? Students know that their choice will have a major impact on the upcoming election.
The idea has been proposed to hold a five-week break from the strike, however it was rejected.
The tuition increase of $1,778 over the next seven years does have some support from the public as they have decided to make it the focus for their reelection campaign
Currently a third of Quebec’s students are on strike.
De La Montagne on Midnight Love Affair
There's something magical about merging the naive with the lo-fi: both feature in everything we love about pop music. Simple structures, clear hooks, and danceable beats, can undercut the gloss and the pomp that are often mistaken for high production values. Lyon-based Camille Bouvot-Duval, the one-woman show behind De La Montagne, cites Tracy + The Plastics, The Knife and Cansei de Ser Sexy as influences, and it shows. This is brash, coy electro that plays to the sexual politics of the dance floor while subverting them.
Catch De La Montagne on Midnight Love Affair this Sunday August 5th at 10pm EDT.
PQ calls for truce in tuition dispute
PQ candidate Leo Bureau-Blouin is calling for a truce in the tuition dispute during the current provincial election campaign.
In a report by CBC News, the former FECQ leader said the truce would not silence the movement but would ensure a proper election campaign leading up to September 4th.
The PQ has stated that Liberals are using the tuition protest to “mask their record so far in the National Assembly.” After a relatively quiet summer supporters of the tuition movement demonstrated in downtown Montreal last Wednesday night leading to more than a dozen arrests.
Pauline Marois has said that if the PQ is elected into power, she would eliminate the scheduled tuition increases and cancel the controversial Bill 78.
Montreal hotels struggled in July
Montreal hotels have just gone through their worst July since 2009.
The Hotel Association of Greater Montreal told the Gazette on Thursday that hotel room revenues were down almost 15 percent from July of last year.
After a surprisingly decent June, bookings took a dive in July. The association V-P William Brown also said that there wasn’t a single cause for the decline. He pointed to the high Canadian dollar, the battered euro, an election year in the U.S. and the fallout from the student protests as key reasons.
The hotels will have a clearer idea of what the reason for the decline will be when airline figures for Montreal to Europe and the U.S. flights are reported.
UN-Arab League envoy to Syria resigns
Kofi Annan his quit his post as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria.
According to the BBC, Annan told journalists at a press conference on Thursday that the people of Syria need help now, but said the UN Security Council hasn’t been doing enough.
Annan authored a six-point peace plan for Syria which was intended to end the fighting. The plan has never adhered to both sides of the conflict and violence has continued to escalate.
Russia and China have vetoed resolutions set by Annan three times making it impossible to impose a peace plan. They have stated the reasoning behind the vetoes is that they don’t want a regime change from the outside.
Annan said that if a successor is chosen they might choose another path to resolve the Syrian crisis which first started in March 2011.
Flickr Photo by: US Mission Geneva
Aveos rescued by AJ Walter Aviation
AJ Walter Aviation has come to the rescue for Aveos Fleet Performance due to a purchase agreement which was made between them.
According to the Gazette it was on Thursday that AJ Walter signed an agreement to purchase the aircraft maintenance business.
This is good news for the nearly three thousand Aveos employees who lost jobs after the company filed for bankruptcy protection.
It`s rumoured that there`s a possibility that the nearly three hundred montreal jobs lost will be available again next month.
R A M Z I on Haze World
a short message from the host of Haze World:
next monday's haze world will host a mix by montreal's R A M Z I, aka phoebé guillemot (http://soundcloud.com/phoebeguillemot). it's insane, a heavily fried stumble through dissociated tropical music and her own productions of lysergic, rearranged techno refuse. its closest analogue is maybe hans dens's innercity project - ultra-frazzled, scatterbrained explorations and heat-warped calm. she has an album forthcoming in september and will be performing at pop montreal. as always, the mix will be streamable afterwards on the haze world show page and the haze world mixcloud.
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