Daybreak Montreal
with Mike Finnerty

Spotted Facebook pages are popping up in Montreal schools. It's an online venue for students to make comments about other students anonymously. The comments can get nasty. The English Montreal School Board has taken notice and is cracking down. Maureen Baron is a cyber bullying expert who visits EMSB schools to offer advice.

 

Parti Quebecois Cabinet Minister Bernard Drainville is critical of a Montreal borough tradition which accommodates a Jewish high holiday. Mike Finnerty speaks to Bernard Drainville and Snowdon City Councillor Marvin Rotrand.

(Photo: Radio-Canada)

Quebec Health Minister Réjean Hébert has asked for a review of the province's publicly funded in-vitro fertilization program. Daybreak's Mike Finnerty speaks to him and to former Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc, who implemented the plan in 2010.

(Photo: Pawan Kumar/Reuters)

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie says she had a double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made getting breast cancer extremely likely. Daybreak speaks to breast cancer survivors and a cancer specialist.

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Carrefour d'education populaire in Pointe St-Charles is one of six community education centres in Montreal. They are located in low-income neighborhoods and offer classes to adults who have limited education. The centres are facing closure due to funding cuts. Daybreak's Alison Northcott brought us the story.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield will make his descent back to Earth later tonight. For five months, he captivated the world with his tweets from space. Fellow Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will be watching the event live at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters in Longueuil. He dropped by our Daybreak studios this morning for a chat with Sue Smith. Watch the live webcast here.

(Photo: Damon Van Der Linde/CBC)

Former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt insists he's innocent. He faces 12 charges, including conspiracy, fraud and gangsterism.
Alain Gravel, investigative reporter and the host of Radio-Canada's Enquete, joined us in studio for more on the UPAC raids.

 

Quebec's anti-corruption squad UPAC says it arrested 37 people this morning including former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt. Former Laval police officer Marc Demers speaks for Laval's opposition party, Mouvement Lavallois.

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The city has unveiled the nine locations where food trucks will be allowed in Montreal. There has been a lot of enthusiasm about food trucks but not everybody is jumping on the bandwagon. Two food bloggers debate the issue.

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