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Morsi calls for unity after winning presidency
Egypt’s new President Mohamed Morsi is calling for national unity following his election win.
According to BBC News, the Muslim Brotherhood member won with around fifty two percent of the vote, beating former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik.
Morsi becomes Egypt’s first democratically elected leader.
Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters celebrated the win in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Many world leaders congratulated Morsi including the U.S. who called the election “a milestone for Egypt’s transition to democracy”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoped that the peace treaty would continue despite the Brotherhood’s opposition to the treaty.
Morsi has already reached out to secular and Christian voters in an effort to be more inclusive.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces promised to hand over power to the new president by June thirtieth.
Flickr photo by: Gigi Ibrahim
Saudi Arabia allows women to participate in the Olympics
According to BBC news, Saudi Arabia will allow women to participate in the Olympic games for the first time.
This decision will eliminate recent rumors that the Saudi team would not be able to participate in the Olympics all together due to sexism.
However, the country’s Olympic committee will still be overseeing the participation of women’s athletes who can qualify.
With only a few weeks away, Saudi officials say that the only female athlete that they feel meets Olympic standards is showjumper Dalma Rushdi Malhas.
Many Saudi religious groups are outwardly against the participation of women in sports as there is almost no public tradition of women’s involvement in sports in their country.
However, compromises will be made in order to preserve the countries dignity. Modest, lose fitting garments and sports hijabs will most likely be worn in order to cover the hair, but not the face.
This is a huge step for Saudi Arabia as it is upending the years of opposition women have faced in order to gain attention in the popular public.
Although it was thought that since April, Saudi rulers had decided to maintain the ban on allowing women to take part in the Olympics.
However, it has been said that for the past six weeks, discussions have led King Abdullah to push for women’s participation. By doing so, he believes it will allow women to play a more active role in the Saudi Arabian society.
The Walls Are Blonde - The Death of Blood Rexdale
The Walls Are Blonde's record "The Death of Blood Rexdale" is a peek into the curious, mysterious and possibly genius mind of David Kleiser. Released on cassette, the album opens with a live recording of Kleiser's voice accompanied by a clumsy but well improvised trumpet melody that eases you into an experience equivocal to an acid trip. By the time the cohesive pop structure of "Learning to Fuck" hits, the album stays on a grandeur level of psychedelia and freak-folk that can trance, dance and maybe shit your pants. The warmth of the cassette quality is so appropriate for the band's sound, leaving you feeling like you just found this tape in your big brother's secret stash drawer. Some bands simply can't make a quality record that's totally recorded and distributed on a cassete, some find it just too novel. In my opinion, this DIY eclectic mess is nothing short of a masterpiece.
FINAL MARK: A
The Winds of Change Continue to Blow in Montreal
It’s been the summer of change for the Montreal Canadiens organization, as the cliché “out with the old, in with the new” was literally put into action.
Ousted were much maligned front-office bosses Pierre Gauthier and Bob Gainey, while a new regime headed by Marc Bergevin was ushered in among much optimism and relief that the sometimes dictator-like Gauthier and his often sketchy ways of dealing with players, coaches, and fans.
Bergevin brings with him several years of front-office experience acquired with the Chicago Blackhawks, including a Stanley Cup victory in 2010. He also spent 20 years in the NHL as a player, so there is no questioning that Bergevin knows the game. It also doesn’t hurt that he’s a Montrealer, something that will please the French-speaking masses of this province.
Bergevin has already assembled an impressive front-office staff. He’s made the easy decision of retaining Director of Amateur Scouting Trevor Timmins, the man responsible for many of the Habs young rising stars, as well as Larry Carriere, who was Gauthier’s assistant manager last season. Bergevin has since hired Rick Dudley (assistant GM), Scott Mellanby (Director of Player Personnel), Martin Lapointe (Director of Player Development), and Patrice Brisebois (Player Development Coach). Many have applauded the hires, but the fact remains that this group needs to put together a solid on-ice product before considering this sweeping change by owner Geoff Molson a successful one.
Bergevin himself has already made his major hires; besides the names mentioned above, Bergevin has dipped into the Canadiens past by selecting former coach Michel Therrien as the team’s next head coach. Therrien has since hired Gerard Gallant of the St. Johns Sea Dogs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Clément Joidoin of the Habs’ farm-team Hamilton Bulldogs as his assistants.
The Therrien hiring nearly caused an uproar in Montreal, as many were opposed to the idea of bringing in a coach who had already been in Montreal (without much success the first time around), but in Therrien’s defense, he spent some time around the league since the early 2000’s, having gained experience in Pittsburgh, where he led the Penguins to within a couple of wins from a Stanley Cup, as well doing some pro-scouting in Minnesota. He comes back to Montreal more knowledgeable, with more experience to draw upon, and definitely better prepared for the pressures of this city than he was the first time around.
The move will be criticized until the puck drops in the season-opening game come October, but for now all the Habs’ brass can worry about is the most important part of the offseason: the NHL Draft and the opening of free agency on July 1.
News June 22nd 2012
Read by Michael Desson
Produced by Erica Bridgeman
Stories written by Daniel J. Rowe and Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Protests erupt over military rule
A fresh round of protests has once again erupted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
In a report by the BBC, the protesters made their way to the famed square to express their outrage towards Egypt’s ruling generals.
The generals ruled to seize sweeping powers after the military dissolved parliament last week. Those powers include complete control over legislation and military matters until new parliamentary elections are held.
In the meanwhile, the results by Egypt presidential election from last weekend remain unknown. Both candidates Mohammed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq both claimed to have won.
Opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood have begun a campaign to discredit the claim that Mursi won the election.
Flickr Photo by: James.......
Robbery shooting suspect appears in court
The man accused of shooting and killing three people and wounding another after an armoured car heist in Edmonton appeared in court on Thursday.
According to CBC News, twenty-one year old Travis Baumgartner’s appearance inside an Edmonton courthouse was brief.
Baumgartner is suspected to have shot four and killed three armoured car guards early last Friday morning at the University of Alberta in an apparent robbery.
He was arrested last weekend while attempting to cross into the United States near Abbotsford, B.C. in possession of three-hundred thirty thousand dollars is cash.
If convicted he could face seventy-five years in prison.
Anti-corruption squad makes 11 new arrests
Quebec’s anti-corruption squad’s latest raid resulted in eleven new arrests.
In a report by CTV News, the raids were carried out in and around Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. The arrests are in relation to the cracking of a collusion ring believed to have committed fraud of one million dollars. The fraud was found to have been committed mostly in the installation of water mains and sewage.
The UPAC also issued warnings on Thursday to nine companies that they are now the subject of a criminal investigation.
The raids are carried out just as the Public Inquiry into alleged fraud and collusion in the construction industry has begun.
Say Word's Francofo Award Goes to...
Photo: Mathieu Villeneuve
ALACLAIR ENSEMBLE!!
What an insane week. In the span of 10 days at Les FrancoFolies, I managed to see approximately 12 shows, which were all pretty spectacular, but hands down the best two I saw were Alaclair Ensemble and Maybe Watson (a member of Alaclair Ensemble!).
The Alaclair Ensemble collective has been making epic waves in French Hip Hop scene for a while now, so it's about time that the FrancoFolies gave them a big outdoor stage. And man did they ever deliver. On every aspect of what I consider a great show, Alaclair aced and innovated. Actually, let's do a breakdown so y'all can understand what I'm taking about.
- Beats: If you don't have good baseline to your music you just lost 90% of your fan base; Alaclair is probably most revered for their beat making with members such as Ken Lo, Sevdee, and Vlooper on the production team you can only expect blow mind material. Actually weren't these the cats that started the whole Piu Piu Movement!?!
- Lyrical Content: Baaaahh! These guys kill it. First off they've created their own language so your mind is automatically intrigued to figure out what they're saying and when you do, you're on the floor crying it's so funny. Actually it's more than just funny it's that it's so relevant, witty, cheeky, and real that you can't help but relate. Plus they've got these crazy hook lines that stick with you forever. I swear for days after the show I keep waking up saying, "Champagne, Caviaaaaar".
- Flow: Collectives are often hit or miss for me 'cause it's too easy to have a bunch of MCs that sound the same, or even worse, a few weak-link MCs in a group can really bring the vibe down. This ensemble, however, is just busting with talent. They can each hold their own on a solo status (as Maybe Watson demonstrated), and as a collective they just reach higher heights. You'll never catch yourself mistaking Ken Lo's flow for Odgen's. As a cherry on top of this sundae these cats are hyper-genius at playing with voice intonation, bringing you smoothly from a gritty grim vibe to a bubble gum pop flow on their sillier tracks.
- Stage Presence: Flags, Face Paint, Big Hair, Choreography, 6+ MCs on a track... do I really need to say more? No. But for real, this is Alaclair's specialty, which is such a joy to see 'cause honestly it's hard to fill those big FrancoFolies stages and if you don't go hard it's pretty painful to watch. So Chapeau les gars.
- Collabos: This isn't in anyway a criterion for a good show, but I really need to applaud Maybe Watson for inviting not only his associated fam Alaclair Ensemble and K6A to the stage, but also the up-and-coming rap trio Gullywood. When you've only got an hour to shine in front of a crowd every second counts. I'm glad that, for Watson, promoting other local artists he respects was also a priority.
- Crowd Connection: This is where Alaclair blew my mind. See, I know that I know all of Alaclair's tracks and love singing along, but I'm a radio host whose job is to search for music and I particularly enjoy the local scene. Sixteen year-olds, on the other hand, are hard to impress, rarely respect music coming out of their own city, and have the attention span of a goldfish if you don't keep them entertained. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw hundreds yes hunDREDS of young cats screaming for more Alaclair, spitting all the lyrics, and following the choreo. If you can get youth to say 'Yo man ça c'était un sérieux gros show man', 'K6A, le WuTang de Montreal man' and 'Alaclair for life', you know you did something right. It was crazy how hype the crowd was, which really shows the need for this kind of sound in Montreal.
- The Full Package: I hope that many of you have seen Billy Cogan's (from The Smashing Pumpkins) interview with Brian Solis where he goes on to explain that an artist can't just make it off one good track. An artist has to be offering his audience the full package if they want people to continuously follow them. Well, Alaclair Ensemble gives you the full package and then some. I mean seriously, they have a flag, they created a country, they have their own language, they're continuously dropping dope free mixtapes, they work solo as well as in a unit, their videos are psychedelic, their merch game is outrageous, and their music is unrivaled.
I think that sufficiently explains why Alaclair Ensemble wins the Say Word Francofo Award.
Much Respects and Big Ups Guys
Looking forward to more Alaclair
-Gold
"Champagne, Caviaaaaaaaaaaaaar"
Maximum RNR Session on BVST
Many things have changed for Maximum RNR since they were last at CJLO studios way back in 2006. Back with a new lead singer and bass player, the one thing that has never wavered is their punk-influenced, metal-tinged rock'n'roll. Six years later, they've recorded an exclusive handful of tracks in our studios once again, and you can be the first to hear them right here on the CJLO airwaves. Tune in to BVST TONIGHT Wednesday, June 27th at 7pm as Angelica premieres the tracks, and digs into the back catalogue of your new favorite band!
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