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August 2011 Archives

Group wants to tighten green blue belt around Montreal

With the Greater Montreal region expected to grow by at least a half a million people over the next 20 years is it possible to limit sprawl and protect the environment while making sure people have a good place to live? The administrative body that oversees Greater Montreal - the Montreal Metropolitan Community - is in the process of developing its new Land Use and Development Plan. With only two days left to make a submission before consultations begin, we've talked to Patric Asch, of Heritage Laurentien.

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Canadian rowers set their sights on Olympics

rowing-worlds_584.jpgThe 2011 Rowing World Championships are underway in Bled, Slovenia. The women's 8 is looking to qualify for London 2012 with the final race on Friday. They are also looking to beat the Americans for the first time after giving them a serious run for their money at a World Cup event last month. (Photo: Darko Bandic/Associated Press)

They only need to finish ahead of 1 boat to qualify for the upcoming Olympics. Montreal's Andreanne Morin is stroke in the women's 8 meaning she sets the pace and rhythm. After finishing a heartbreaking 4th in Beijing, Morin and her crew are hungry for a medal this time around.   

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West Island special needs teens looking for a home

An after-school care program for them run by the West Island Association for the Intellectually Handicapped has lost the space it had at John F Kennedy in Beaconsfield before the summer break -- and can't find a new one. That is causing a real headache for Anna Cegielka, whose son Eric has autism.

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Ottawa Report -- Aug 30, 2011

The Bloc's Maria Mourani on her depleted party's leadership race and the trials and tribulations of Pauline Marois and the PQ.

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Difficult back to school for friends of Rakib Ullah

Dawson students mourn the death of one of their own, a 20-year-old young man from Bangladeshi who was shot to death earlier in August. Shawn Apel introduced us to this broken circle of friends.
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Bar owners on dress codes and racial profiling

Last Friday we told you about two Montrealers who say they had an experience of racial profiling at the Pub St-Sulpice. On the heals of that story, we talk to Peter Seragkis, President of the Quebec Bar Owners Association, and Fo Niemi, executive director of the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations. 
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Montreal gaming company goes global with Deus Ex

deus ex.jpgComputer game sales now outstrip box office, dvd, and recorded music sales -- they're top of the pack. Stephane D'Astous refers to Montreal as the "Hollywood of gaming."

D'Astous' company, Eidos, just launched its first game. It's called Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Image from the Deus Ex: Human Revolution (photo: courtesy Eidos)

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Two Montealer speak out about racial profiling at popular pub, St-Sulpice

tristanIMG-20110827-00554.jpgTristan D. Lalla is a Montreal actor.  His latest film is called "Happy Slapping". It was part of this year's Montreal Film Festival. He went to the final screening of the film on Wednesday and afterwards, he planned to go for a drink to celebrate with friends.  Including the Montreal artist Andrew Farrar, aka Annakin Slayd. Slayd - who is white - was already inside the pub, the St-Sulpice. But Tristan D. Lalla - who is black - says bouncers refused to let him and his friends in. On the grounds they didn't meet the dress code.

Lalla dressed as he was the night he was refused entry into the pub (photo: Dimitri Katadotis/CBC)

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Montreal deportee ends up on Immigration Canada most-wanted list

An update on a a story we broke Daybreak about a man who's been living in Montreal since he was 7 years old.  Back in February, we first introduced you to Tarquin Seemongal. Seemongal never became a Canadian citizen. So after being convicted of several crimes, he was ordered deported to his birth country of Trinidad & Tobago. Seemongal has just ben added the Immigration Canada's latest most-wanted list.

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Quebec Hockey Summit

 

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Postal workers not crossing Clark street construction chasm

A microcosm of how Montreal's summer construction woes can affect one family. People on Clark Street near Pine just off the Main have been without any mail delivery for most of the summer. Why? Because construction crews have dug up and removed the sidewalk. Michel Berthiaume lives on Clark and he can't understand why postal workers won't deliver his mail.

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Remembering Jack Layton

884_13094_web_enlarged.jpgJack Layton grew up in these parts -- he spent his earliest years in Montreal West and then moved to Hudson where he attended elementary school and high school.

Shawn Apel went to Hudson to see how residents were registering the news of his passing. (Photo: Darryl Dick/CP)

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We also talked to 3 voters who say they were inspired by Layton.

 

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Empire Back Yard Party

Empire Back Yard Party this Saturday
 
 

Jocelyn Desjardins on his sovereigntist group Nouveau Movement pour le Quebec

The day after a meeting that drew over 400 attendees, including former PQ MPs, we speak to the founder of newest group to call for an imdependent Quebec.
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Frosh fuss at McGill University

This week university students start flooding back into Montreal. On Saturday, residences at McGill University open and students can move into their new digs. What follows thereafter for first-year students is Frosh Week, or what the administration calls Discover McGill week. The administration is warning this may be the last year students will be permitted to oversee the festivities. And that's because of past excesses. We talked to a representative of the university and a student organizer.

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The light at the end of the tunnel

mtl-metro-cars-tp.jpgMontreal's infrastructure problems have one Daybreak listener wondering about the safety of the STM Metro tunnels. How often are they inspected? The answer may surprise you.

Montrealers wait on a metro platform. (Photo: CBC archives).

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Westount has a bike-helmet law but they don't enforce it

IMG-20110816-00488.jpgThe deaths of two cyclists in the past week has given the debate over bicycle safety in Montreal a new urgency. One thing most public safety experts say you could do right now is to make cyclists wear helmets.

There is a part of Montreal where bike helmets are mandatory: Westmount.

Bikers are supposed to wear helmets on this stretch of path (photo: Shawn Apel/CBC)

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Whither the Empress Theatre

empress.jpgOnce again the community is struggling to secure a future for the grand dame theatre on Sherbrooke Street in NDG. But the building is not in a good state and the city says the time has come to take back the lease on it.

Mayor Applebaum says he's open to "new proposals" while a member of the board of the Empress Cultural Centre says the borough is "changing the goalposts."

The Epress theatre in its Cinema V incarnation (Photo: courtesy the Empress Cultural Centre)  

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Ottawa Report -- Aug 16, 2011

Quebec NDP MP Jaime Nicholls on the "royalling" of the armed forces and Conservative G-20 slush funds

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City, Hasidic communtiy face off over water in Boisbriand

It's been two weeks since a devastating fire in the Toscher Hasidic Jewish Community of Broisbriand, just north of Montreal. The fire in an apartment building two weeks left 18 families homeless including 150 children. On top of coming to the aid of those people, the community has to foot a bill for the water to put out the fire. It comes from the City of Boisbriand.

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Wife of cancer victim speaks out against reopening of Jeffrey Mine in Quebec

Today is the deadline the Quebec government had set for concluding the investment in Jeffrey Mine in the town of Asbestos. Michaela Keyserlingk is an Ottawa woman whose husband Robert died in 2009 of mesothelioma - the lung cancer that is often associated with inhaling asbestos dust and fibre . She has been running an online banner since this spring that reads, "Canada is the only western country that still exports deadly asbestos!", using the Conservative symbol.

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Montreal man petitions STM to allow dogs on the metro

CBC reporter Steve Rukavina tells guest host Sabrina Marandola about one man's campaign to get permission for his dog Stella - and all canines - to ride the metro.

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Dogs on the metro campaign

A link to a Facebook campaign to allow canines on public transit here.

Volatile markets drive up price of cold, hard gold

gold.JPGGold prices have gone up a full 25 per cent this year so far; and that's not good news for gold retailers. Shawn Apel brings us a look at the rapidly-evolving world of buying and selling gold in Montreal.

photo: Mukesh Jamnadas says sales of gold jewelry are way down at his Montreal shop. (Shawn Apel/CBC)

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Putting a stop to dangerous driving on Terrebonne Street

Shawn Apel bring us the story of an NDG woman's campaign to get a stop sign put in after two cars drove off the road and ended up on her front lawn.

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Rotisserie Laurier BBQ becomes Laurier Gordon Ramsay

Ramsay_Laurier.JPGAn Outremont institution, Rotisserie Laurier BBQ opens to the public in its new incarnation, the first Canadian venture of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Daybreak had a chance to meet Ramsay and his chef, Montrealer Guillermo Russo.

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Promoting Montreal's festivals amid news of crumbling infrastructure

Hudon_Daybreak.JPGIsabelle Hudon heads up a new group trying to get the word out about Montreal's summer festivals. She's also president of Sun Life Financial Quebec and formerly head of the Montreal Board of Trade. Daybreak asks Isabelle Hudon how big problems with our roadways and bridges are affecting people's perception of Montreal, and about concerns in the business community over volatile world markets.

photo: Radio-Canada 

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Traffic committee looks at fixing gridlock on Montreal roads

A team of Montrealers formed to come up with solutions to fix Montreal's traffic mess at the beginning of July has one week left to report to Transport Minister Sam Hamad, Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay and Longueuil Mayor Caroline St-Hilaire. Daybreak hears from long-time traffic reporter, and member of the committee, Rick Leckner. 

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Quebec cheese takes coveted award

A Quebec cheese won a coveted third place among all the cheeses at the American Cheese Society's conference this weekend in Montreal. The cheese - called le Louis d'Or - is made at a former church presbytery in the town of St-Elisabeth-de-Warwick. The owners of the winning cheese, the Morin brothers, don't speak English. They share space at the presbetery with another cheesemaker, Marie-Chantale Houde, who spoke to Daybreak this morning.
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Impact president asks for calm from fans

See the letter to fans here.

Calling all women for Gaelic Football and Camogie!!

300px-Camogie.jpgPaula O'Connor and the Montreal Shamrocks Gaelic Athletic Club want to recruit women for 2 of the oldest Irish sports. Camogie is the women's version of Hurling which if you are still confused is kind of like a cross between Field Hockey and Lacrosse. If you are still confused listen to O'Connor's description below. And if after THAT you are STILL confused head out to their demo Saturday August 5th from 12:00-2:00pm at Rutherford Park behind McGill University's downtown campus.

You are also welcome any other day of the year to check things out. Just drop Paula a line at montrealshamrocksgaa@gmail.com

photo: Wikipedia

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Top Montreal dancer hits the big screen

Nico Archambault stops by the Daybreak studio to talk about his new film Sur le Rhythme.

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Becoming an ad hoc hotelier at a big profit

Daybreak looks at the internet-based service that's turning some Montrealers into hoteliers, and providing them a tidy sum of income. But it's not without its risks. We met a man who rents out his apartment on the Plateau to visitors through the site AirBnB. 

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Roger Federer on the new Rogers Cup format

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Roger Federer made some waves in his conference call with the media yesterday when he called into question the new format for the Rogers Cup that holds the mens and womens tournament at the same time. The men are in Montreal this year while the Ladies play in Toronto. Hear the entire conferece call by clicking on the link below. Also dont miss you chance to see the top 3 players practice at Uniprix Stadium in Jarry Park. Its open to the public and it's free!

 

Friday practice schedule:

10:00am-12:00pm Raphael Nadal

12:00pm-2:00pm Roger Federer

2:00pm-4:00pm Novak Djokovich 

 

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Quebec's Order of Engineers on Montreal's decaying infrastructure

This week's collapse of 25-tons of concrete screens onto the eastbound lanes of the Ville-Marie tunnel could have been deadly. Now the collapse is focusing attention on how we are dealing with the fact of Montreal's severely decaying infrastructure. Daybreak hears from Maud Cohen, president of Quebec's Order of Engineers.

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The perils of drinking and biking on a Bixi

li-mtl-bixi-mtl-royal-460.jpgLate at night after the bars and clubs close, the metro stops running; buses run few and far between; and a taxi ride can be expensive.  More and more people are opting to hop on a Bixis to ride home. An emergency room doctor tells Daybreak drinking and biking is a problem in Montreal - and tell us what he's seeing in the ER.

photo: Melissa Kent / CBC

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Transport minister on who's to blame for Ville-Marie tunnel collapse

Quebec's Transport Minister, Sam Hamad, says the firm contracted to repair the walls of the Ville-Marie expressway should be held responsible for the failure of the concrete beams that collapsed onto the eastbound lanes on Sunday.

 

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STM bus gets trapped in pot hole

bus in hole.jpgPassengers on a bus in Montreal East got a scare this morning after the bus got stuck in a very large hole. The road beneath the bus gave way because of a water main break in an industrial area at the corner of Durocher and Ste-Catherine.  Firefighters had to free about 25 passengers and the driver, but no one was hurt.

photo: Steve Rukavina / CBC

Long, hot days observing Ramadan for Montreal restauranteurs

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan falls in August this year, when the days are long. And hot, if you work in a restaurant kitchen, preparing food and serving other people while you fast. Daybreak hears from Malik Waheed, chef at 786 Halal Restaurant in Park-Extension, and Imad Smaidi, owner of Boustan restaurant on Crescent Street.

 

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Concrete slab crashes down on Ville Marie tunnel

hi-ville-marie-expy-852-default.jpgMontrealers who use the Ville Marie expressway are still reeling from the news that part of the tunnel collapsed Sunday morning. A concrete block measuring at least fifteen metres by fifteen fell in on the tunnel eastbound near Berri.

Guest host Sabrina Marandola speaks to Transport Quebec, and a civil engineer specializing in transporation.

 

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