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Tour de l'Ile attracts thousands
Over 25 000 people cycled through the streets of Montreal Sunday in the 28th annual Tour de l'Ile.
The event started at Jeanne-Mance Park and stretched over 50 kilometres.
The sunny weather made it a perfect day for families and cycling enthusiasts.
This year event organizers Velo Quebec challenged experienced riders to finish the course in an hour and a half. However, the goal was never reached, with the fastest time recorded at one hour and forty minutes.
Velo Quebec organizes the event each year to promote cylcing in Quebec.
Flickr photo by: Lea-Kim
Magnotta spotted in Paris
The suspect in the dismembering case that’s shocking people worldwide may have been spotted in a Paris district over the weekend.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, twenty-nine years old, is at the center of a global manhunt for the murder and dismemberment of Jun Lin, an international exchange student at Concordia.
Brigitte Kuster, mayor of the district, told CBC News that Magnotta has been spotted by many people at a hotel and on the terrace of a local café.
Lin was killed sometime between the evening of May 24 and early May 25, because a video that apparently captures some of the act was posted on an online gore site on May 25.
His foot and hand were sent by mail to the federal Liberal and Conservative parties in Ottawa.
His torso was found in a suitcase in a trash pile behind the suspect’s apartment.
Magnotta, a man from Montreal nicknamed “the Butcher of Montreal”, apparently left the city on May 26th and arrived in Paris on the same day.
Interpol is actively searching for the man and issued a notice about him to a hundred and ninety countries last Thursday.
Evidence was gathered in the French café and hotel where Magnotta has reportedly been spotted.
Pictures posted on Interpol’s wanted-person site on Sunday show a man with dark hair and a black Mickey Mouse shirt believed to be Magnotta passing through security at an airport.
Police are looking into the alleged sightings but have no additional details.
Parlovr - Kook Soul
"Kook Soul" by Parlovr makes me wish I already knew the words to every song. The album sounds like loud and cheerful catharsis wrapped up into neat 2-to-3 minute packages. Sweet, upbeat sing-a-longs build and break into shrieking wails, with a tempo that is always energetic even when it's somewhat restrained. Tracks like "Fisticuffs and Affidavits" and "Amaze-Me-Jane" sound perfectly fitted to dance, jump and scream to. Each track has an individual power and demands it's own attention. "Kook Soul" on a whole is solid, invigorating and oh-so-much fun.
FINAL MARK : B+
Negotiations hit an impasse
Negotiations between student union leaders and the provincial Liberals are at a standstill.
In a report by the CBC, the government pulled out of negotiations session on Thursday afternoon after both appear to have hit an impasse.
FEUQ president Martine Desjardins said the government didn’t fully evaluate the students’ proposal and was sticking to its proposal. The Liberals offered to lower tuition hikes from two-hundred fifty four dollars to two hundred nineteen dollars a year over seven years.
CLASSE spokesman Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois called for renewed protests to denounce the government.
Public protests against tuition hikes and Bill 78 have taken over Montreal, Quebec City and most recently other Quebec communities.
State of emergency in Egypt has expired
A state of emergency in place in Egypt with interruption has expired.
In a report by the BBC, the state of emergency was put in place when then President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
The terms under the state of emergency included the right to detain people indefinitely without charge, prohibit protests and censor the media.
There has been wide outrage against the law, however some fear that Egypt will be left in chaos without it.
Currently the Interior Ministry is dealing with 188 people that were detained under the provisions of the law at the moment of their arrest.
Flickr Photo by: gr33ndata
Proposed ban on oversized soft drinks
New York City has proposed a ban on the sale of oversized soft drinks.
According to CTV News, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg said the ban would focus on the sale of oversized soft drinks in restaurants, delis and movie theatres.
Certain loopholes exist in the proposal. Those loopholes include diet soda, fruit juices, and any drinks that contain milk or milk substitution. Criticism has been expressed over this loophole claiming a high calorie Starbucks Frappucino wouldn’t be affect because of its high dairy content.
The proposal relates to sugar used in these drinks being contributors to obesity.
The ban could come into effect as early as March.
Flickr Photo by: roitberg
International search for body parts murderer
The search for Luka Rocco Magnotta, who is the suspect involved in dismembering a victim has become international.
According to CBC News, Montreal police have stated that the search becoming international will make it easier to catch him.
Police believe that Magnotta was romantically involved with the victim who was a man in his thirties.
After the murder the body parts were found in a suitcase near Magnotta`s apartment and sent through mail.
Magnotta has been known to use different names such as Vladimir Romanov and to make dramatic changes with his appearance.
PS I Love You - Death Dreams
After making waves with 2010’s Meet Me at the Muster Station, PS I Love You’s sophomore release Death Dreams is a heaping slab of CanRock heaviness and the sound of an immensely talented duo hitting their proverbial stride. Like their hometown forerunners the Inbreds, Kingstonians Paul Saulnier (guitar/vocals) and Benjamin Nelson (drums) manage to mold a singular sound out of the limitations of a two-piece rock outfit. Where they diverge with their minimalist 90s predecessors is in overall approach; as Death Dreams’ 11 tracks can attest, this record is all-caps HUGE. Saulnier takes virtuosic turns in his guitar playing, from the feedback squalls of the titular instrumental tracks to the soaring, fuzzed-up riffage of album-closing “First Contact”. Where Death Dreams ends up in the pantheon of great Canadian rock remains to be seen but, apart from a clunker or two, PS I Love You have crafted an record with all the markings of a stone cold classic.
FINAL MARK: A
Teen Daze - All of Us, Together
The first full full length LP from BC's Teen Daze finds the genre-hopping bedroom auteur expanding upon the homespun “ambient dancefloor” aesthetic he has been refining since emerging from the primordial ooze of chillwave all the way back in 2010. All of Us, Together is a largely instrumental affair, packed with four-on-the-floor jams meant to enhance the late night drives and popsicle-eating get-togethers that fill our collective summer idyll. This is “moment music” - euphoric, saccharine background noise demanding little in the way of active listening apart from a tapping toe or bobbing head. And - sometimes - that’s enough.
FINAL MARK : B
Wintermitts live Friday June 1st on Let Them Eat Cake and With Gay Abandon
Join Beansie (Let Them Eat Cake) and Julie (With Gay Abandon) Friday June 1st from 12:00 until 2:00pm for a special joint episode!
They will be joined by Vancouver's own Wintermitts as they promote their new album "Océans" for a live performance and interview. They sing in French and English. They rock out on trumpets and accordions. They waltz when they need to and they’re as absorbing (and comforting!) as you’d hope a winter mitten would be. This is a Friday you don't want to miss!
Wintermitts - Bar L'Absynthe, Saturday, June 2nd at 10:00pm.
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