Radio Noon
with Bernard St. Laurent

The city of Côte-Saint-Luc will vote tonight on a bylaw that will ban smoking within 20 metres of a playground or a sports field. Councillor Steven Erdelyi who's behind the proposal says he has had very positive fieldback and recognizes that "the biggest question is logistics." He's trusting that most people are law-abiding and even smokers will follow the new bylaw once it has passed.

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We got two immediate texts: "I'm moving to CSL!" and "as someone who has never smoked, I think they are going way too far."

Steven Erdelyi stayed on the line to answer caller questions. Take a listen to Monday's Radio Noon:

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20,000 parents across Quebec were either staying home, taking their kids to work or relying on a friend or family member to get through Friday.

360 publicly-funded daycares shut down in protest over slow negotiations. The workers have been without a contract for 2 years.

We hear from Families Minister Yolande James, Nadine Joseph who's a union representative and daycare worker, and of course, our callers. 

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NDP MP Romeo Saganash has pulled out of the leadership race. He cites a lack of money and support as well as family and health reasons for bowing out.

We play revealing highlights of the former Cree leader's recent interview with Bernard St-Laurent on C'est La Vie. He talks candidly about his life, residential schools and his elderly mother who lives near Waswanipi in northern Quebec.

Two other candidates with Quebec links remain: Brian Topp who was born in Quebec and Thomas Mulcair, the NDP member for Outremont. Saganash did not give his support to another leadership hopeful. 

A Townships dairy farmer, Alex Brand, describes his organic operation while Matthew Holmes, executive director of the Canada Organic Trade Association, tells us about the growth in the organic market.

McGill's Dr. Lucy Gilbert says discovering that certain cancers start in the fallopian tubes will mean a much higher "rate of being cured" for women.

The researchers' findings were published Thursday in the medical journal, The Lancet.

80 per cent of women already have advanced ovarian cancer when they learn they are sick, according to Gilbert. With early detection, that will change. 

As another preventitive, the MUHC will set up 12 new ovarian cancer clinics.
For more information women can call 1 866 716 3267. 

The Speaker's office disagrees that NDP MP Sana Hassainia was asked to remove her baby from the Commons for a vote on Tuesday. Hassainia says the message being sent to women is 'choose between work and family.'

An official in the Speaker's office told CBC reporter Steve Rukavina babies are not barred from the Commons, but they mustn't be a distraction either.   

We asked our callers to comment. They're split:"Children should not be allowed in. Period." "Families should be welcome in the House of Commons."

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A woman from Quebec is at the centre of a case that will be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow. She had sex with her partner without disclosing that she had HIV. She was convicted of aggravated assault and is now appealing.

Should it be a crime not to disclose that you have HIV to a sexual partner?

We hear from a man with HIV protesting the criminalization of HIV, a human rights lawyer, a professor, a doctor specialising in sexually transmitted disease and of course, Radio Noon listeners.

Jeannie Neveu, a dairy farmer in Rawdon in Lanaudière, beef and sheep producer Bob Laberge in Danville in the Townships, and Hugh Maynard who's a specialist in agricultural communications and development and lives in Ormstown - join Steve Rukavina for Radio Noon's weekly farm discussion.

(Photo: Bobby Hidy)

Some pest control companies are reporting an increase in the number of requests for rat extermination. Steve Bilodeau is the Operations Manager at ABC Pest Management.