Homerun
with Sue Smith

Homerun's Sabrina Marandola was at Dawson College today--

for the inauguration of the Tony Proudfoot Gymnasium.

The Catholic Church has an ad in the sports section of some newspapers today. It shows the Eastern Conference standings with every team listed except the Canadiens.
In eighth place, the final playoff spot, it simply says, "Prions" or "Let Us Pray."
Martin Belanger is part of the team at the BOS Agency that came up with the ad.

Josh Freed has a new doc out.
It's called Life Below Zero and it airs on CBC tomorrow night at 9.
It looks at our relationship with winter.



http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/life-below-zero.html

Arianna Huffington was in Montreal today to launch the all new Le Huffington Post Quebec.
CBC Reporter Sabrina Marondola was there.



http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/

Today people at Cactus are trying to regroup. 
The community group runs a needle exchange program and wants to open a supervised injection site downtown.
But last night Mayor Tremblay said that the service should be located in a medical clinic or hospital and not at Cactus.
Sue Smith talked to Louis Letellier de Saint Juste, the President and Founding Member of CACTUS.

Many people are still talking about CBC's Canada Reads today.
It's day 2 of the literary debate, and Anne-France Goldwater's pick got voted off.
This comes on the heels of some controversial comments the Montreal Lawyer made about some of the authors.

Some McGill Students are occupying the Deputy Provost's office.
Sue Smith talked to student Matthew Crawford-Appignanessi.


Douglas Sweet is McGill's Director of Media Relations

Gold Medal Olympic Freestyle Skier Alexandre Bilodeau  is among the first 60 Canadians receiving a Diamond Jubilee medal today.
All to celebrate 60 years since Queen Elizabeth has been on the throne.
Sue Smith spoke with Alexandre Bilodeau. Here's their conversation.

Some residents in St. Michel are upset about a new recycling program.
The borough has been short-listed as a place to have a large compost processing plant.
Sue Smith spoke with CBC reporter Peter Akman.

Montreal football fans are getting ready for the Super Bowl.
The New York Giants will go up against the New England Patriots Sunday in Indianapolis.
Reporter Steve Futterman is covering the game.