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Montreal looks to form cycling committee

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Montreal is aiming to match the pace of other urban cycling centers by forming a new committee designed to examine cycling issues across the island.

Such committees already exist in large Canadian centers like Toronto and Vancouver.

The cycling committee is comprised of city representatives, the transit authority, the police, as well as members of the cycling community.


Human Rights group wants U.N. accountable after abuse goes unpunished

Human Rights groups from Haiti want to hold the United Nations more accountable after a Canadian Police officer fled the country after allegedly sexually assaulting a Haitian woman last February.

According to CBC News, the man was among 80 other Canadian officers working for the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti.


India to protect its people from small Chinese invasion

India`s defense Minister has stated that he will do whatever it takes to protect the people from the small Chinese invasion.

According to the Hindu a large group from China`s People`s Liberation Army set up a tented post in eastern Ladakh.

Government sources believe that the Chinese army consists of fifty soldiers and that they arrived on April 15.

Government sources have also stated that India and China have been in touch in order to solve the issue.


CJLO News - April 22 2013

Hosted by: Aisha Samu

Stories by: Spoon Jung, Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Natasha Taggart & Kurt Weiss

Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi


Hundreds protest in India to denounce government response to child rape case

A few hundred people continue to protest around government buildings in New Delhi, furious over claims that police acted unethically when dealing with the rape of a 5 year old girl.

According to Al-Jazeera News, the 100 protesters are furious that police allegedly ignored the victim’s parents when they said she was missing. 

Some reports say that police tried to offer the parents money to keep them quiet.

While the Indian public is demanding stricter laws, activists are saying that the government will need to focus on implementation to show that violence towards women and children will not be tolerated.


More prisoners join hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay

Almost half the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on a hunger strike according to a U.S. official.

The military spokesman says the number has gone up to seventy-seven ... an increase of twenty-five in just the past few days.

Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House says there are seventeen prisoners currently being force-fed with tubes.

And five have reportedly been admitted to hospital, but without life-threatening conditions.


Earth Day march draws thousands in Montreal

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Thousands joined in the annual Montreal Earth Day march yesterday as the crowd made their way  from Place-des-Arts to its final destination at Place du Canada.

Quebec director for the David Suzuki Foundation, Karel Mayrand noted that a number of families and children came out in support. “They have this profound belief that the decisions they make today will actually build a future for their children,” he said.


Light Rail preferred over reserved lane

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The new Champlain bridge will have to do without the orange cones.


CJLO News - April 19 2013

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Stories by: Catlin Spencer, Carlo Spiridigliozzi & Alyssa Tremblay

Produced by: Catlin Spencer


Strawberry pickers injured in Greece farm shooting

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Around thirty strawberry pickers were injured in a shooting at a farm in southern Greece this week.

Reports state that a farm supervisor fired at a crowd of roughly two hundred migrant workers.

The migrants were hired to pick strawberries at the farm in Nea Manolada.

On the day of the incident, workers had gathered to ask their employers for unpaid salaries.

So far police arrested the farm’s owner and a foreman.


CAQ will decide the fate of Bill 14

The fate of Bill 14 now rests in the hands of the Coalition Avenir du Quebec Party after hearings wrapped up on Thursday afternoon.

According to CBC News, the C.A.Q. has been put in this position because the Liberals are against the new law.

The hearings, which took place at the National Assembly, drew seventy-five citizens and other groups from across the province. They put in their two cents worth on their objection or acceptance of the Bill.

Bill 14’s purpose is to change a few amendments in the province’s language laws.


Bill 14 infringes on human rights, says provincial body

The province’s human rights commission is condemning the most recent changes to Bill 14.

The controversial language bill has proposed changes to Quebec’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, reports CBC News.

Designating the use of an official language as a human right is one of the proposed changes.

Commission president Gaétan Cousineau denounced the change saying that official language is not a human right.

Cousineau noted that The Charter of Rights and Freedoms already covers language rights.

He said Bill 14 would propose to replace democratic values with Quebec values.


New Zealand legalizes gay marriage

The land that brought the imaginary world of Middle Earth is now the land of very real rights for gay people.

According to Al-Jazeera news, New Zealand’s parliament is the thirteenth to legalize gay marriage and the first in the Asia Pacific.

Observers in a public gallery broke into the local love song Pokarekare Ana in Maori after the seventy seven to forty four vote in favour of the bill.

New Zealand has allowed civil unions since 2005.

The law will no doubt cause ripples in a region that has been slow to adopt gay marriage.

Some states in Australia have considered the move.


CJLO News - April 18 2013

Hosted by: Catlin Spencer

Stories by: Chloe Deneumoustier, Catlin Spencer & Daniel Rowe

Produced by: Catlin Spencer


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