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September 2010 Archives

Police chief responds to Montreal North report

Another report on relations between police and minority groups has concluded that some police officers routinely used racial slurs when dealing with young people in Montreal North. Daybreak's new host Mike Finnerty spoke to new police chief Marc Parent about the report. And we also heard from Will Prosper, a former RCMP police officer and a member of the group Montreal Nord Republik, formed by residents after the Montreal North riots.  

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Penguins take flight

marchofthepenguins_title.jpgThe Montreal Biodôme is about to ship some of its penguins to China. Daybreak spoke to Serge Pépin, the animal curator at the Biodôme.

photo: Jerome Maison

 

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Festivals of note

Pop Montreal

Stop Motion Film Festival

Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal

STREET WHYS SEPTEMBER 30th 2010

 

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What's happening on Route 207? Over the last few weeks many of you have been calling me with reports of unusual delays and questions about Kahnawake Peacekeepers controlling traffic. Find out what's really going on, this week on Street Whys

(Photo: CBC)

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Falcon sighting

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Lost property on the STM bus

stm-side-mirror.jpgWhen Mike Sutton left his backpack on a city bus, he realized his mistake almost immediately. He was in a hurry to track down the backpack, because it contained his laptop, his wallet, and his passport. But he says he didn't get much help from the STM. photo: CBC

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Dangers of lead paint in old homes

You probably know something about the dangers of lead. It can cause anemia, learning disabilities and brain damage, especially in children. Now the CBC has learned that public-health officials have been studying a potential source of problems - and it's right in many homes.  Our investigative reporter Shawn Apel brought us the story.

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Bereavement at the bar

The West Island Palliative Care Residence is starting a new kind of bereavement program. It's exclusively for men, and sessions are held at Kelly's Pub in Pointe-Claire. Daybreak spoke to organizer Denis Marcoux.

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ADQ: just say no to Big O spending

tpolympicstade.jpgShould we really be spending any more money on the Big O? The leader of the ADQ says no. Gerard Deltell says he will oppose the Olympic Installation Board's latest plan to re-open bidding for a new roof for the troubled stadium.

photo: CBC

 

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Language groups lobby for long-form census

A major battle is expected today on the future of the long-form census. The Harper government has already pledged to scrap it. But minority language groups across the country are fighting that decision in court. Daybreak heard from David Birnbaum, executive director of the Quebec English School Boards Association. And Sylvia Martin-Laforge, executive director of the Community Health and Social Services Network.

 

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Das Rheingold live-streamed

The Metropolitan Opera's website will stream tonight's opening of Das Rheingold here.
 
 

Anne Frank's chestnut tree to bloom in Montreal

frank-anne-cp-98184711.JPGThe story of Anne Frank is an iconic one, of perseverance in a time of darkness. She and her family spent two and a half years hiding in an attic in Amsterdam. A little piece of that story is coming to Montreal. A sapling grown from a chestnut tree - the only thing she could see outside her window - will be planted outside the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Montreal.

photo: Anne Frank Foundation

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Hab on figure skates

BLADES 3.JPGThe ice is ready ... the skates are sharpened ... and the hockey players are ready to take to the ice and impress you ...with their figure skating!

That's right, Battle of the Blades is back for a second season this Sunday night on CBC television. Former Hab Patrice Brisebois is one of this year's contenders.

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Les Journées de la culture

Find more info about les Journées de la culture here.

Long-gun survives vote

Votes were cast and Canada's long-gun registry is still in place. Steven Blaney is the Conservative MP for Levis-Bellechase and president of the Conservative caucus of Quebec.

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Registry not long gone

The results are in -- Canada's long-gun registry is still in place. Jim Edward is the father of Anne-Marie Edward, who was killed during the shooting at Ecole Polytechnique in 1989 He was in Ottawa for the vote. We spoke to him and the NDP's Thomas Mulcair.

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Helping the Haitians?

There is a new pilot program underway in Montreal designed to help Haitians who've come here since the earthquake. It's intended to help people who came under the special humanitarian sponsorship program established after the quake. But there's a problem. None of those people have arrived yet.

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Street Whys September 23rd 2010

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This week we dip into the Street Whys mailbag. No one likes it when car traffic clogs up an intersection but is there a by-law against it?Are electric bikes allowed on city bike paths? Find out this week on Street Whys.

(Photo:Giacomo Panico/CBC)

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Paying for charity

A CBC investigation has found one group benefitting consistently from Canadian charities - and it's not who you think. The CBC has found charities that hire external fundraisers often end up paying those fundraisers a lot of money - and getting little in return. Our I-team reporter, Shawn Apel brought us the story.

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Il fait beau and chaud dans le metro

Projet Montreal's version:
 
 
 
 
The original ad campaign from 1976:
 

Car-free road closures

Road closures take effect in the downtown core of Montreal at 9 am.  At that point if you've got your car parked within that area you won't be able to get it out until after 3:30pm.  For a few hours those streets will become pedestrian walkways. 

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Several blocks of Montreal's downtown core, indicated by grass, will be closed to vehicle traffic between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. (Image:Metropolitain Transport Agency)

If you'd like to find out about the activities planned for Car-free day, click here.

 

Twitter love

It's a modern way to find love: online, via Twitter. That's how my next two guests met. Mathieu Murphy-Perron and Jaclyn Turner live in Côte-des-Neiges.They were in studio.

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Scrapping the registry

On Wednesday, Members of Parliament are scheduled to vote on the fate of the long-gun registry -- and it could be one of the closest votes in many years. Monday on Daybreak we spoke with a Montrealer who is part of a group dedicating itself to saving the registry. This morning we're joined by a Quebecer with a different perspective. Raymond Contré is a Chief Instructor with the Quebec Shooting Federation. He is also the former President, although he was on the show as an individual gun owner and not a representative of the federation.

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Montreal Black Film Festival

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Fighting to save the long-gun registry

kadhim-hayder-cbc-061101.jpgMembers of Parliament vote this week on whether to scrap Canada's long-gun registry. Hayder Kadhim is a survivor of the Dawson shooting and a friend of Anastasia de Sousa, who died that day. He's part of a group of people lobbying politicians to keep the registry. The group includes survivors of the Dawson, the Polytechnique and family members of the victims. (Photo: CBC)

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Manganese study

A study being released today suggests tahta common substance found in drinking water can cause intellectual impairment in children. Manganese is a mineral commonly found in groundwater in Quebec. Maryse Bouchard is an environmental health researcher, and the lead author of the study.

Bamboo bike

Workshop:

www.bamboobikestudio.com

 

Ghana project:

 

www.bamboobike.org

Bamboo bike

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Car Free Week begins today in Montreal. A week of activities aimed at leaving the car at home and finding alternative modes of transportation. We told  you about a unique alternative: bamboo bikes. (Photos: Denis Calnan/CBC)

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Hayder Kadhim

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Montreal's car-free week

 

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This Wednesday September 22nd a portion of Montreal's downtown core will be closed to car traffic as part of the 8th annual car-free day.  The road closures are for one day only but this year the activities around car-free day last all week long. 

Check out the list of events

Cote-des-neiges construction

This week on Daybreak we're taking you to a couple of Montreal's major works projects. Thursday it was Park Avenue. Today we take you to the much less talked about construction site on Cote-des-Neiges -- between Queen Mary and Boulevard Edouard-Mont-Petit.

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Re-evaluating the valuations

Most homes in Montreal are worth more than they used to be. Property values are up 25 per cent on average according to the latest City Valuation Rolls. The downside --the more your property is worth, the more you'll likely pay in property taxes. But it is possible to challenge the city's numbers. We spoke to Neil Gold. He is a professional appraiser.

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Sports Day in Canada

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Monique Benatar

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The Queen in 3D

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/QE3D/

Bike barriers

Cyclists and pedestrians have been battling for space on the sidewalk on an underpass on St. Laurent, south of Rue de Bellechasse. Barriers are now up on the sidewalk -- in an attempt to get cyclists to get off their bikes and walk them under the bridge. Daybreak went to check out how the barriers are being received.

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Street Whys returns...September 16th 2010

The Good Luck Zone gets a facelift, finally.  A new traffic light is cause for celebration for a couple of Daybreak listeners in Laval.  That's because they lobbied for it for the last three years.

Hear the whole story this week on Street Whys.

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Trouble sign

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Merchants on Park Avenue are having a hard time attracting business while road crews are ripping up the street. It's hard for passersby to find parking and gain access to the stores and restaurants along the way. Jennifer Lonergan owns a store called Artistri on Parc. She put out a sandwich board sign in front of the store to draw in more business - and then she got in trouble for it. (photo: Jennifer Lonergan)

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Shale gas debate

The debate about shale gas in Quebec continues. Oil and gas industry representatives were in Bécancour last night to discuss their projects at a public meeting. Michael Binnion was there. He's the president and CEO of Questerre Energy, based in Alberta.The company is hoping to develop shale gas in the St-Lawrence Lowlands.

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Game over

mtl-dawson-video-12.jpgThere is a game you can find online that allows people to play the role of the shooter at Dawson, inviting them to kill as many students as they can before police arrive. It features images and writings from the real Dawson shooter, Kimveer Gill. Matthew Wall was a Dawson student at the time of the shooting. Nadkai Kanji is the director of internal affairs and advocacy for the Dawson student union. We talked to them both.

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Fournier elected

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Jean-Marc Fournier is the new Liberal MNA for the riding of St-Laurent. He was elected in a by-election last night. (photo: CBC)

Cuts to Katimavik

This is the time of year when the volunteer program for young people Katimavik starts sending young people to communities across Canada.This year its having to do it with less money. Katimavik is operating with 3-million fewer dollars of federal funding this year. And next year Katimavik will have to go without an additional 3-million dollars of government funds.

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Walk don't run

IMG_0717.JPGPeople trying to cross street in Montreal have always faced an uphill battle. Now the south-west borough is cracking down on drivers who don't stop at crosswalks. The borough has installed new signs that jut up from the middle of the road, warning drivers of a hundred dollar fine if they don't stop for pedestrians. Derek Robinson lives in St-Henri and lobbied for the new signs. Veronique Fournier is a councillor in the Sud-Ouest borough. We spoke to them both.  (Photo: Denis Calnan/CBC)

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Protesting the World Energy Congress

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Heads of energy companies from around the world are in Montreal this week for a meeting called the World Energy Congress. A few hundred environmental activists were protesting against the meeting yesterday.

(Photo: Denis Calnan/CBC)

 

On death and dying

CBC reporter spent the week at the "Dying with Dignity" hearings. She gives us a sense of the tone and the discussion.
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Difficult transitions

A murder at a transition home in east end Montreal earlier this week has people on edge. It happened at a residence called La Relance in Pointe-Aux-Trembles. It's for people with mental illness and is affiliated with the Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Hospital. This morning I am joined by two people who working helping those with mental illness integrate into the community.Lise Boies is manager of Rehabilitation and Residential Resources for Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Hospital. Francis Caporali is executive director of Omega Community resources in the West Island.

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Grand Prix Cycliste

Link to Grand Prix Cycliste page with map of race route and cyclists coming to Montreal on Sunday.
 

Sears security

Employees at the Sears warehouse in Ville Saint Laurent are being told they will soon be greeted at their workplace with random security checks. Employees were given notice of the new measures six weeks ago. Jason Saunders is a logistics clerk at the Sears warehouse. He's worked at the company just over four years.

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Suing Homeland Security

Mcgill student Pascal Abidor was recently making his way from Montreal to New York. US border agents seized his laptop. On his computer were pictures and stories to do with Hamas and Hezbollah. Pascal is a graduate student in Islamic Studies.Tuesday he launched a lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security, for breach of privacy.

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Claude Bechard dies

claude-bechard-cp-9339116.jpgClaude Bechard resigns, succumbs to cancer. Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil remembers a colleague. (Photo: Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press)
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Making a racket

Angry musicians, artists and bar owners stormed the Plateau borough council meeting last night. They're upset about the borough jacking up fines for loud music.

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Stop and go

Some people who live on St-Louis Street in Beaconsfield want drivers to slow down.They've been asking the city to put in speed bumps.They were surprised to learn that not only have speed bumps not been installed, but that city crews are going to remove two stop signs on their street at the end of September.                           Judy Cordner has been living on St-Louis Street for 31 years. Her daughter-in-law Gina Okker lives six doors down.

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Dying language

Today is the beginning of public hearings into Dying with Dignity in Montreal. Joan Gross wants to attend the meetings -- she thinks this is an important issue. But she is refusing to attend because of language.

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Checking into shale gas

Chances are you'd never heard the words shale gas a few weeks ago. But now - shale gas is at the centre of a huge debate in Quebec.

Shawn Apel has been looking at this new industry -- and at some experiences of some of the first Quebecers who are dealing with the industry already.

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U-17 soccer

Follow Canada's U-17 Soccer team at the World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago:
 

Ramadan at school

For Muslims, the month of Ramadan is nearing an end. At the end of this week, practising Muslims will be celebrating Eid, the religious holiday marking the end of the annual fasting tradition. This year, Ramadan happens to overlap with the start of the school year.

Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed is a Muslim Montrealer with two young children, one in daycare and one who just started kindergarten last week. After noticing the preschool her children attended were doing Christmas and Hanukkah-themed activities, she decided to approach the administration with an idea.

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Pakistan flooding aid update

Flooding continues to devastate many areas of Pakistan. McGill engineering student Bebul Soomro travelled to Karachi, Pakistan to help with relief efforts. She returned to Montreal Sunday night. Bebul Soomro told Daybreak about her experience there.

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"Liberation treatment" for MS update

tp-ms-surgery-poland.jpgCanada's health minister announced recently there will be no money for clinical trials of so-called "liberation therapy" as a treatment for Multiple Sclerosis. Clinical trials are underway in the US, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, with participants from the US and Canada. Daybreak spoke to Dr. Adnan Siddiqui, lead investigator of the trial.

photo:  Some Canadians with multiple sclerosis are going overseas for a controversial procedure known as liberation therapy that aims to improve blood flow from the brain. It is too early for a pan-Canadian clinical trial to test the treatment, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says. (photo: CBC)

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Compassion in court

Today the operators of two Montreal Compassion Clubs will be back in court.

Last May, Montreal police shut them down and charged them with drug trafficking, possession with intent to sell and conspiracy to traffic drugs.

Marc Boris Saint-Maurice is onw of the people facing charges. He ran the Montreal Compassion Centre in Plateau Mont Royal.

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River runs through it

Workers with Quebec's Environment Ministry have been excavating a part of the Lake of Two Mountains since July.

The Ministry says it needs to do this because the Riviere des Mille Iles, which flows from the lake, has water levels that are too low.

It says cities near the river get their drinking water from it, but that water will run out unless Mille Iles flows faster.

Guy Garand says Quebec should have acted sooner.

The director of of Laval's Regional Environmental Council says the Riviere des Mille Iles has had low water levels since 2001.

Residents of Deux Montagnes are also concerned about the excavation

Dave Caissy lives near the excavation site.

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Cleared for take-off

tp-harper-ddo-cp-9309040.jpgA Quebec-based company has won the contract to keep Canada's fleet of CF-18s in the air.

The contract was renewed by Stephen Harper and worth almost 470-million dollars over the next seven years.

We spoke to Sylvain Bedard is the president of L-3 Mas in Mirabel.

We also spoke to Jacques Saada. He is the president of the Quebec Aerospace Association. (Photo: Graham Hughes/Canadian Press)

Waiting aria

Montrealers can see the opera broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. They're flocking to see it.

There was a run on advanced tickets for the new season at the Scotiabank Cineplex theatre downtown on Friday.

People stood in line for more than six hours.

Daybreak listener Ted Pearson was there.

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Wardrobe malfunction?

The iconic clothing company American Apparel is in financial trouble.

This is the company that Montrealer, Dov Charney started by making T-shirts and leggings right here in North America at a time when most clothing manufacturing had moved to China.

That appealed to its hip, young customers.

Now American Apparel is carrying over $120 Million in debt, its auditor Deloitte & Touche has resigned and the American Stock Exchange has threatened to delist the company.

Dov Charney is CEO and founder of American Apparel.

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Saint-Lazare gets on the bus

For the first time ever, people in Saint-Lazare are getting on board a city bus.

The town has not had any public transit, until now.

There's one route.

Buses run weekdays in the morning, and the afternoon.

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