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Liberal and Conservative MPs on election call fraud
Two high-profile West Island Liberals say phone calls were being made into their ridings in the lead up to last May's election, tyring to trick people into going to the wrong place to vote. No polling stations changed location in Quebec in 2011. Lac St Louis MP Francis Scarpaleggia says his campaign manager reported the incidents to Elections Canada, Former Pierrefonds Dollard MP Bernard Patry says he didn't at the time because he learned about it only on voting day. Stephen Harper's parliamentary secretary and MP for Peterborough Dean del Mastro told us he has no reason not to believe the stories, says the Conservatives did not make the calls, and whoever did should be ashamed.
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Election phone fraud
The former head of Elections Canada, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, told Daybreak he's very concerned about the fraudulent calls allegations.
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Winter weather returns to Montreal
Three audio postcards about the weekend snow storm and winter's return to the city.
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Penguins on the town
On February 25 a select group of penguins at the Biodome are going to leave the safe confines of their temperature-controlled environment, and go outside. It's part of the Nuit Blanche celebrations going on at cultural institutions across the city. We spoke to Emiko Wong, a veterinarian at the Biodome(Photo: Silvet Ali/CBC)
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Goon! Opens Today
Goon opens everywhere today but I got a chance to go to the premiere earlier this week. Long story short: I loved it. Sports movies are tough to do. And a funny sports movie...well lets just say Montrealer Jay Baruchel and Co. stepped up to the challenge and hit it out of the park. (I am going to try and get in as many sports cliches as possible in this post...) Hockey fans will appreciate the peek into their world that is crass, funny, heartwarming and sometimes not all that pretty. Everyone else with a sense of humor will laugh at a film that manages to weave in an adorable love story and delve into the darker side of the toughest job in pro-sports. Check out my review with our Arts and Entertainment columnist Jeanette Kelly.
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Brother of man slain by police in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
As the SQ continues its investigation into the latest Montreal police shooting death, the family of the dead man, 30-year -old Jean-Francois Nadreau, is preparing to bury him on Sunday. Jean-Francois's brother Sebastien professes no anger, no recrimination toward the police, but he says he'll do what he can to stop the police in Montreal from shooting to kill when faced with a crisis situation.(Photo: Silvet Ali/CBC)
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Pot advocate consulted by Health Canada
Marc-Boris St-Maurice, president of the Montreal Compassion Centre, was
invited to Ottawa on Wednesday to speak to Health Canada about
regulatory reform. He was in the Daybreak studio to talk about the visit.
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Are NDP membership numbers high enough to ensure Quebec representation?
The NDP membership numbers are in. We now know how many votes Quebecers have to elect the new NDP leader four weeks 12, 266. That's a seven-fold increase from where the party was here in October. Nevertheless in next month's vote to elect the party's new leader, BC will have three times the votes -- despite the fact that they have only 12 MPs. Quebec elected five times that many NDP MPs. We talked to two NDP insiders to break it all down.
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Goon on the red carpet
Jeanette Kelly talks to Jay Baruchel, actor Liev Schrieber and director Michael Dowse at the Montreal premiere of their hockey comedy. Baruchel at the AMC forum (photo: Jeanette Kelly/CBC)
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Family says handyman squatting in their home
A mother and daughter say a handyman is squatting inside their family home on Melrose street in Verdun. Shawn Apel brings the storySandra Mathieu in front of the occupied house (photo: Shawn Apel)
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Tax change hurts post-doc researchers
A federal tax ruling has stung some post-doctoral researchers --and is sending some of our brightest research minds looking for positions out of country. We spoke to an affected researcher and the dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies at McGill.
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Daybreak puts students behind the mic at Royal West Academy
Royal West Academy student and guest reporter Katie d'Alesio asks questions about her school's spending priorities.
photo: Shawn Apel, student Katie d'Alesio, Andie Bennett (Taline Arslanyan / CBC)
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Feature interview: Jacob Tierney
Students at Royal West Academy voted on the one Montrealer they most wanted to hear from on Daybreak this morning during a special live broadcast from the school. Their choice: Jacob Tierney, actor, film-maker, alumnus. Student Charles Cooper stepped up to interview Tierney.
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Interview: Dave Bronstetter
Iconic CBC Montreal broadcaster -- and former long-time host of Daybreak -- retires. Mike Finnerty asks Dave about his troubles with depression, Montreal and what it means to work in public broadcasting. Dave outside studio 20 (photo: Dimitri Katadotis/CBC)
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Student strike over tuition fees
The Quebec government is putting up tuition fees by $325 a year for each of the next five years, moving it from the current $2,200 to $3,800. And there is a movement afoot for a massive student general strike.
To debate whether Quebec students are right to be so upset, we invited two students to the Daybreak studio: Lex Gill, the president of the Concordia Student Union, and Andrew Swidzinski, a 3rd year law student at McGill.
To debate whether Quebec students are right to be so upset, we invited two students to the Daybreak studio: Lex Gill, the president of the Concordia Student Union, and Andrew Swidzinski, a 3rd year law student at McGill.
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Racial profiling in marketing
Companies are using last names to target potential client. Elias Abboud has received letters and phone calls that solicit him as a member of a cultural group. It irritates him and he brought us the story.Making a connection (photo: Elias Abboud/CBC)
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MSF details its moral agonies
MSF has has turned 40. Instead of a celebration, Doctors Without Borders is proposing to let you in on a haunting world of compromised principles on the path to its over-arching goal of healing, and trying to stem human suffering in some of the most hostile environments that exist in the world. Its new volume, "Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience" details those compromises. We talk to Claire Magone.
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Tensions over gentrification in St-Henri
Mixed feeling about a neighbourhood in the midst of change. Shawn Apel brings us a story about gentrification and its effects and how residents and business people are reacting in St-Henri.
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McGill asbestos controversy
Opponents to asbestos say McGill research is being used to dispel legitimate concerns about asbestos around the world. Last week the university announced it would be reviewing that research/ But some think that review will not go far enough. We spoke to
Dr. Fernand Turcotte, Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Preventative Medicine with the Universite de Laval's faculty of medicine.
Dr. Fernand Turcotte, Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Preventative Medicine with the Universite de Laval's faculty of medicine.
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Interview: Jean-Rene Dufort
Quebec political satirist Dufort from the popular Radio-Canada show Infoman joins Mike Finnerty in the Daybreak studio.Clowning around (photo: Dimitri Katadotis/CBC)
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McGill occupiers evicted
The students who were occupying the sixth floor of McGill's James Administration Building were evicted on Sunday (February 12), but the bad blood remains. We spoke to both sides of the divide -- two of the students involved and the director's of McGill's communication department.
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Honouring Whitney Houston
The weekend death of Whitney Houston was a shocker, and it's all they were talking about in Montreal's gospel community. Kiralina Salandy is a Montreal gospel and contemporary singer.
Houston has been an inspiration and model for her. Kiralina came into the Daybreak studio with her mother, Sherma, to talk about Houston's legacy.
Houston has been an inspiration and model for her. Kiralina came into the Daybreak studio with her mother, Sherma, to talk about Houston's legacy.
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SAQ vs the people of Pointe St-Charles
Quebec's state-controlled liquor authority, the SAQ has announced it will close its outlet in Pointe St-Charles on Centre Street sometime in April. We spoke to a resident who has been trying to save the outlet and an spokesperson for the SAQ.
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Habs fans lose the faith
With the Canadiens struggling through the season, even die-hard fans are feeling their enthusiasm fade. Costa Papoulias is a Habs fan. He blogs under the name Coach K on montrealhockeytalk.com and he coaches a girls hockey pee-wee team in Saint Lazare, Les Phoenix de Trois Lacs. Habs fan David Kellerman has a hockey blog called the PK'ist after Pk Subban. He just sold-off the remainder of his hockey tickets for the season. Both were in the Daybreak studio.
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Missing: Clemence Umugwaneza
Every day for a month now Clementine Uwassa wakes ups and wonders what could have happened to her sister. On January 11, the sister, Clemence Umugwaneza, left her home in Ahuntsic for a walk... and never came home. Shawn Apel brings us the story of this ongoing missing-person case. Poster up in a store in the Ahuntsic shopping mall near Clemence Umugwaneza's house (photo: Shawn Apel/CBC)
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Interview: Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington was in Montreal for the launch of the Quebec version of the Huffington Post. She came into the Daybreak studio and we asked her about the new website, the controversy around not paying bloggers, and her views on Quebec nationalism. Huffington with host Mike Finnerty (photo: Dimitri Katadotis/CBC)
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Ex-head of Alliance Quebec supports CAQ
William Johnson remains one of this province's staunchest defenders of Quebec's place within the Constitution of Canada. He's currently a freelance parliamentary journalist and is the author of a piece that explains why he made a donation to Francois Legault, the former Parti Quebecois minister who is now head of la Coalition Avenir Quebec.
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Concession workers at Bell Center say losing record means losing sales
Beer sales may be down at the Bell Center but the Canadiens losing record can not dampen the spirits of these Habs fans from Saskatoon!
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Habs contest -- photo two face
Wednesday 3rd challenge: create your version of the Canadiens Rise Together
photo. a two-Face shot with your face merged with a Canadiens player.
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Habs ticket give away: the digital scavenger hunt
With the Canadiens sitting in last place in the east we thought it was about time to bring the fun back to hockey in Montreal. So we have some tickets to give away to the Feb. 13 game against the Hurricanes. These are not just any tickets, they are the free food tickets in the Club Desjardins so we are going to make you work for them. But in a fun way!
The contest is a digital scavenger hunt. There will be 3 stages. The contest will run till Thursday at 3:00.
Do not worry! You can jump in the contest at any point, you just have to complete all three challenges by Thursday at 3pm.
CHALLENGE #1: take a picture of yourself with a Canadiens legend cast in bronze. Send that pic to @cbcdaybreak or email to daybreak@montreal.cbc.ca
CHALLENGE #2: send a tweetpic or photo of a Forum seat and seat number to @cbcdaybreak or daybreak@montreal.cbc.ca
CHALLENGE#3: create your own version of the Canadiens Rise Together photo: a two-face shot with your face merged with a Canadiens player
Deadline: 3pm Thursday
The winner will be announced on Friday morning
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Interview: Althea Joseph-Charles Seaman
Long-time activist tries to bring Black History Month to Laval. (Photo: Silvet Ali/CBC)
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Concern over STM fare inspectors
There are questions about the STM's inspectors, the people who check for proof of payment and see that rules are followed in the metro and on buses, dressed in dark blue with vests like police officers and armed with a Camelock 26-inch baton. Many have voiced discomfort about the way fares are now checked. We spoke to Marion Pennell, a regular user of the STM who wrote a letter critical of the STM inspectors, and Tenyjah Indra McKenna, who lives on the South Shore and commutes to Montreal everyday.
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iPhoneography
What's the future of photography? Is it the iPhone or an Android with apps?
Even Annie Leibovitz says yes! Miss Pixels and Beckibecko are two of the
founding members of iPhoneography Montreal. A show of their work, Unlock, is up at
the Visual Voice Art Gallery at the Belgo Building, 372 Ste-Catherine West,
#421. The Gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday noon to 5:30 p.m. or by
appointment.
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Security guards at Angell Woods
The private owners of a section of Angell Woods on the West Island have posted security guards to keep out dog walkers and hikers. Angell Woods is an old-growth forest and it has the largest wetland on the island of Montreal. Hundreds of people trek through the 80 hectares of land between Highways 20 and 40 every week and they're not happy they're being turned away. Ange-Aimee Woods reports.(Photos: Ange-Aimee Woods/CBC)
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STM implements new ventilation for metro
Shawn Apel leads Mike Finnerty underground to talk about the history of ventilating the metro -- and what the STM is now doing to make things cooler down there. Shawn and Mike bundle up to simulate the metro experience (photo: Dimitri Katadotis/CBC)
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Criminal complaint against Boisvenu
Saguenay man Jacques Mcbrearty has filed a complaint with the SQ against Conservative senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu. He says Boisvenu's controversial comments about criminals and suicide are a breach of the Criminal Code.
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West Island gym break-ins
Montreal Police are warning West Island gym-goers and gym owners to be on the alert after a rash of locker room thefts. Four January robberies, two in Pointe Claire and two in Dorval.
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People having problems with Paws for Life
Some Montrealers who've stepped forward to foster rescue pets, opening up their homes to foster cats and dogs, are saying they're been left in the lurch by an organisation that they say is not everything it seems. The organisation in question is called Paws for Life, which claims it's dedicated to saving animals about to be euthanized. Lula in happier times (photo: courtesy Jasmine Waheed)
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Artist Ghada Amer at the MACM
Egyptian-born visual artist Ghada Amer says she uses embroidery like
painting. A first Canadian show of her work opens this week at the Museum of
Contemporary Art. In D as in Drips 2010 we can make out the figure of a
seductive blonde superimposed over a voluptuous female torso, the outlines are
punctuated with clumps of tangled thread that tend to obscure the bodies.
Here's Jeanette's conversation with Ghada Amer at the press launch of the
exhibition.Color Misbehaviour, by Ghada Amer (image courstesy MACM)
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Good girls, bad girls and traditional values
The Shafias are the extreme but versions of the type of family tensions that existed there unfold every day in the lives of young women across Montreal . For many of them, it's a struggle. The co-existence, sometimes the collision, of two worlds.Daybreak's Silvet Ali has spent time over the past few weeks meeting young Montreal women who come from households with conservative views on the role of women and female sexuality.
To follow up Silvet Ali's piece we wanted to look at the issues from another perspective. So we convened a panel of fathers, men from immigrant households with conservative views, and talked to them about their daughters.
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