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Bachand breaks finance minister's tradition
Raymond Bachand, Quebec’s Minister of Finance, broke the tradition of Quebec finance ministers this Tuesday, by not wearing a new pair of shoes to their taxing ad spending plans. Instead, he wore new laces.
Bachand says he didn’t wear shoes because he doesn’t see the point in spending money on something he doesn’t need. In fact, he refuses to buy new shoes until next year when he hopes to return to a balanced budget.
Bachand’s invited his office for the annual pantomime of finance ministers. The budget that Buchand has been planning remains secret.
Currently, Quebec has been running on deficit budget since 2009 in order to counterbalance the events of late 2008. This was caused of risk-taking practices in financial markets.
From the time when Bouchand has been involved in Quebecs spending, he has proposed new taxes which have generated over $4billion in new tax revenues.
Quebec student speaks out against strike
A student at the Université de Sherbrooke is taking legal action against strikers who caused him to miss class.
According to CBC, the student, named Philippe-Olivier Daniel, was prevented from going to class because of pressure from student associations he’s not even part of.
Daniel has sent letters to multiple student groups asking them to stop preventing people from attending classes. He’s also asking for financial reimbursement for the class he missed.
According to CBC, the Coalition Étudiante pour l'Association Libre – which Daniel is president of – says all student groups should make sure their members know that they have the right to attend classes.
Concordia will close its doors this Thursday
Concordia University will be closed this Thursday for security concerns. At least 15 000 students, families and faculty are expected to attend Thursday's provide-wide demonstration against tuition hikes. Demonstrators will begin outside of Concordia's downtown campus and march towards Place du Canada. Mobilization is set to begin at 10:30 am. About 250 000 students are currently on strike across the province.
The demonstration has also affected the Concordia Student Union elections. A new day of polling has been added to make up for the missed day on Thursday. Election dates will now be March 20, 21, and 23.
To learn more about the candidates follow any of these links:
President - http://cjlo.com/melissa-mulligan/episode-14-csu-presidential-debate
VP Finance - http://cjlo.com/news/concordia/csu-elections-interview-series-vp-finance
VP Student Life - http://cjlo.com/news/concordia/csu-elections-interview-series-vp-student-life
VP External and Mobilization http://cjlo.com/news/concordia/csu-elections-interview-series-vp-external-mobilization
VP Academic and Advocacy - http://cjlo.com/news/concordia/csu-elections-interview-series-vp-academic-advocacy
VP Sustainability - http://cjlo.com/news/concordia/csu-elections-interview-series-vp-sustainability
VP Loyola - http://cjlo.com/news/concordia/csu-elections-interview-series-vp-loyola
VP Internal and Clubs - http://cjlo.com/news/concordia/csu-elections-interview-series-vp-internal-clubs
Photo by Joel Balsam on November 10, 2011
CSU Elections Interview Series - VP Internal & Clubs
For the final interview series of the 2012/2013 CSU Elections campaign meet Nadine Atallah (A Better Concordia) and Museb Nabil Abu-Thuraia. Listen to the interview with Atallah below. Abu-Thuraia was not available for an interview. Don't forget to vote March 20 and 21.
CSU Elections Interview Series - VP Loyola
In this installment of the CJLO News 2012/2013 CSU Elections interview series, Audrey Folliot discusses ways to make Loyola as important a campus as SGW with A Better Concordia candidate Stefan Faina and Concordia Could Be candidate Jonathan Braziller. Both have great ideas for cultural events that would bring people from both campuses together at Loyola. Listen below:
March 19th 2012
Produced By Melissa Mulligan
Read By Sarah Deshaies
Stories By Daniel J. Rowe, Audrey Folliot, Sofia Gay, and Gregory Wilson.
London, Ontario St. Pats riot
A mob of drunken students celebrating St. Patrick’s Day fuelled a massive street fire in the east end of London, Ontario last Saturday night.
According to the Globe and Mail, the crowd of 1000 people were not only constantly adding fuel to the fire; they were also attacking any officer getting in their way.
Police Constable Krissy Belanger says rioters were throwing bricks, beer bottles and tires to any police officer or firefighter who tried to intercept them.
It was already past 4 am when the crowd finally dispersed.
Belanger says so far police has arrested 11 people, with more to come. And they estimate the night’s cost at $100 000 in damage.
Teachers and parents join student protestors
Student protests are getting bigger with parents and teachers joining the marches, CBC reports.
Sunday saw protests in Montreal, Sherbrooke, Quebec City and Alma. The Montreal march started at Parc Lafontaine, ending at the Ministry of Education offices.
On Saturday teachers got together in front of the Ilot Voyageur and had a symbolic ribbon cutting. The half-abandoned building was a project UQAM had to drop because of debt. The government bailed out the university, with five hundred million dollars of taxpayer money.
A CEGEP du Vieux Montreal professor says this shows clear mismanagement of the education system.
Hottest St.Patrick's parade ever!
The 188’s St. Patrick’s day Parade took place Sunday afternoon in Montreal.
But according to CTV Montreal, this time, the parade took place in the hottest-ever March weather, as the temperature hit a maximum of 22 degrees.
The warmest parade to date was in 2010, when temperature had hit 14 degrees.
Many outlookers were wearing their best green outfits, happily celebrating Irish heritage.
Short and sandals were very popular among the crowd, even in the early hours when it was no hotter than 12 degrees.
The parade’s route was shorter than usual, as the customary route is curtailed by construction work.
The parade started at noon at the corner of Fort, strolling down St. Catherine St., ending at Philips Square.
Paul Loftus was leading the march as the Grand Marshal, and 21 year-old Keira Kilmartin was parade queen.
CSU Elections Interview Series - VP Finance
These two candidates want the opportunity to handle your money as VP Finance. Stéphanie Beauregard (Concordia Could Be) and Keny Toto (A Better Concordia) want your vote March 20-22 to be the next CSU VP Finance. Listen to interviews below:
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