Daybreak
with Mike Finnerty

Monday February 13, 2012

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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Monday February 13, 2012

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.

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Friday February 10, 2012

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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Thursday February 9, 2012

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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Thursday February 9, 2012

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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Wednesday February 8, 2012

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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Wednesday February 8, 2012

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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Wednesday February 8, 2012

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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Tuesday February 7, 2012

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