A man was rescued from a collapsed building in the Plateau on Sunday afternoon. He had been working with two others on a basement construction underneath the building.
This week we're going to be doing things a little differently. The DJ of the Week spot is going to CJLO's new Station Manager; Stephanie Saretsky. Stephanie would like to introduce herself and thought it would be nice to do it by filling out the CJLO DJ questionnaire. So take a minute and get to know the new person in charge and this week's "DJ" of the Week - Stephanie Saretsky.
A controversial verdict has aroused some discontent for some Quebec citizens. After Guy Turcotte was found not responsible for his crimes, protests sprang up on Facebook.
Turcotte admitted to stabbing his two children to death in February 2009. Earlier this week a jury found he was not criminally responsible for the deaths due to mental illness.
The protests are set for Aug. 6, exactly one month and one day after the verdict was passed.
Turcotte will remain in an institution until he is fit to be released.
A Montreal family will soon be reunited with their lost dog, a year after she was lost. The Labrador mix named Pollux escaped from owner Isablle Robitaille's home last June. But that the runaway dog was found after so long isn't the most surprising part of this story.
Pollux was found in Kamloops, British Columbia, over 4,500 kilometres away from home. A good Samaritan had turned her into the local SPCA. Officials at the Kamloops SPCA were able to identify the dog thanks to a microchip in her neck.
Montreal’s transportation giant Bombardier will lay off nearly 15 hundred of its employees in the UK. This is after losing the bidding war for new English trains with German rival Siemens.
The cuts will amount to nearly half of the workforce in its British manufacturing plant. This plant has been making trains since the 1840s and is one of the world’s largest rail manufacturing sites.
Trade unionists are afraid the remaining jobs in the plant will be lost after Bombardier’s last British contract finishes in 2014.
A Canadian ship attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza was seized Monday night by the Greek Coast Guard. The ship, the Tahrir, had at least 30 Canadian activists on board.
The Tahrir was part of a flotilla of aid intended to penetrate the Gaza sea blockade and bring help to people in Gaza. Last week Greece banned all boats in the flotilla from leaving port, fearing that an incident similar to last year when a different aid mission ended in tragedy after nine Turkish activists were killed by Israeli forces, could happen again.
Nine Quebecers were appointed to the Order of Canada Thursday. Those include four Montrealers.
Alain Lefevre is a celebrated pianist and composer. Denis Marleau is an internationally renowned director and the founder of Theatre Ubu in Montreal. Jean-Claude Fouron is recognized for his contributions to the advancement of pediatric cardiology. He is also a professor at the Universite de Montreal. Pierre Nepveau is well known in literary circles as well as a retired professor.
Montreal police have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the 2005 shooting death of Mohammed Anas Bennis. The long-delayed coroner's inquest says that Montreal police officer Yannick Bernier was acting in self defence when he shot and killed Bennis.
According to the report, Bennis attacked Bernier with a knife, wrestling him to the ground. Witnesses say they heard him scream that he had been struck. When he got up again he pulled out his gun. Bernier said Bennis refused multiple requests to drop his knife. When he allegedly lunged at him, the officer fired two shots.
The NBA will gradually head towards a lockout if a deal isn’t reached between the players and owners.
A recent three hour meeting this week could not close the divide between the two sides. At stake is everything from salaries, salary caps, to revenue sharing. Players currently receive fifty seven percent of the league’s revenue. Owners want to implement a hard salary cap, which the players oppose.
If a lockout happens, all official league business will be put on hold.
Ed Belfour, Doug Gilmour, Mark Howe and Joe Nieuwendyk were inducted by the Hockey Hall of Fame on Tuesday. The four former players will be inaugurated into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, on November 11th.
Belfour was a top flight goaltender for fourteen seasons, and gained admittance in his first year of eligibility. Nieuwendyk scored 192 goals in his first four seasons , ranking among the best over that span to start a career.
An unidentified piece of space-junk narrowly missed the International Space Station on Tuesday, as it flashed by at high speed. The incident forced the six astronauts on board the orbiting lab into their rescue craft.
A California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games was deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law violates the U.S. First Ammendment right to freedom of expression.
A New Brunswick man accused of kidnapping a woman has said he knew her previously, contrary to the woman’s testimony that she had no idea who he was.
The woman, who cannot be named, said she was abducted at knifepoint on February 26 2010 in the parking lot of a mall by Romeo Cormier, 63, held captive in his house for a month and repeatedly sexually assaulted.
The weekend of celebration took a turn for the worse as nine people died in a span of forty-eight hours in Quebec's highways.
A Surete du Quebec spokesperson says many of the crashes may have been caused by drunk drivers.
A twenty-three-year-old man died on Friday after a head-on crash in Trois Rivieres. On the same night, a speeding accident in St. Pamphile killed an eighteen-year-old driver. An accident involving a motorcyle and a separate crash between a scooter and a taxi also took place that night.
An unforgiving German side faced off against a valiant Canadian squad Sunday in the opener of the Women’s World Cup. Germany won the game 2-1 in front of a capacity crowd in Berlin’s Olimpiastadion. Almost 74,000 people were in attendance.
Germany scored both goals in the first half of the game. It took a free kick from Canadian captain Christine Sinclair late in the game to close the gap, but it was not enough to beat the two-time defending champions.
It was, however, the first time the German side has allowed a goal in the World Cup since 2003.
Thousands came out to celebrate the Fete national in Quebec City Thursday night. However, new rules kept some party goers away. For the first time, people could not bring their own alcohol to the party site.
Heightened security checked searched every bag that entered the Plains of Abraham. Every member of Quebec City’s police force was on duty.
An after-action review of the Toronto police and associated police forces actions during the G20 protests last year has found the police were unprepared and overwhelmed by the scope and intensity of what they faced.
The report, which was posted yesterday afternoon on the Toronto police website, was written by unidentified senior Toronto officers, as well as civilians who reviewed footage of the event.
It points out a number of critical weaknesses in the police strategy.
We could try and write something funny about this week's DJ of the week, maybe even tell you all the embarrasing behind the scene stories and inside jokes (gauntlets and goblets anyone). Instead we thought it best to just let you get to know them through their questionnaire.
Without futher ado, this week's DJ of the Week; host of Charts & Crafts: Erica "Ricky Fish" Fisher