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Three famous Montreal broadcasters came to speak at Concordia University on February 8^th for the first of the JSA’s lecture series.

They were invited to talk about their job, and offer some advice to aspiring journalists.

Starting off as a young journalist in the broadcasting world when you just graduated from journalism school is not easy.

If you don’t have confidence in yourself, or are not motivated enough by the profession, applying for your first job might be a totally depressing experience.

You will get tons of no’s, many employers won’t even bother following up on your applications, and you might have to send out over fifty resumes before someone actually calls you back.

According to the Mcgill Daily, twelve people still remained in Deputy Provost Morton Mendelson’s office on the sixth floor of the James Administration building of McGill University as of Wednesday night. 

The #6party, as the occupiers are calling it, began on Tuesday at 11 am. Read a backgrounder here: http://cjlo.com/news/local/mcgill-students-occupy-james-administration-b...

According to CTV, Le Huffington Post Quebec was launched yesterday. It is an edition of the like named popular news site, Huffington Post, dedicated to Quebec news.

The announcement makes Canada the first country to have two editions of the Post. Huffington Post owner, Arianna Huffington, said the new edition is needed to properly cover Canada’s diversity.

The occupation of the McGill James Administration building by a group of students continues into its second day. The Mcgill Daily News reports that the direct action has gone on since 11 am Tuesday. 

They are demanding the university accept a referendum that continued funding to the campus radio station CKUT, and the public interest research group QPIRG. The occupiers are calling the action a resignation party for Deputy Provost Morton Mendelson. He supports re-doing the referendum.

The results for Canada’s twenty-eleven census are in. And the population has jumped up to 33 and a half million people. According to the CBC there is a near six per cent surge in population.

Many of the country’s growth is west of the Ontario border.

Read by: Aisha Samu

Stories by: Nikita Smith, Jordie Yeager, Niki Mohrdar and Tara Brockwell

Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi

It's all systems go for the new Westmount sports complex.

In a report by CBC, the $38.5 million dollar project was given permission to proceed at a Monday night city council meeting.

Replacing the existing arena, the new centre will have two underground skating rinks, three outside tennis courts, and an eight lane, 25-metre outdoor swimming pool with an area for divers and nearby kiddie pool.

According to the Montreal Gazette, the city of Homs was hit with shells and mortar bombs by the Syrian army. 42 lives were taken and a hospital was also struck. This was an offensive against President Bashar al-Assad’s enemies. This conflict began almost a year ago.

Rebels from the Free Syrian Army were targeted first, at 6am local time. Every hour, shells and mortar bombs were falling and insurgents could not react except a small arms fire.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described Russia and China’s UN veto as a travesty. 

According to the BBC, she expressed the need to double efforts to help the Syrian people. 

The UN resolution would have condemned Syria’s crackdown against anti-government protesters. 

Vetoing it drew an angry reaction from around the world. 

It was the second time in four months that Russia blocked a resolution condemning the country. 

Schwartz’s, the legendary smoked meat restaurant in Montreal, was sold for ten million dollars to René Angelil and a group of investor at the beginning of January.

The Huffington Post Quebec learned that former owner businessman Hy Diamond sold the popular restaurant simply because he wanted to move on.

Sources say many people had wanted to acquire it, but its high price discouraged many.

Read by Shaun Malley

Produced by Erica Bridgeman

Stories written by Chris Hanna, Danny Aubry and Judy-Ann Mitchell-Turgeon