News

LOCAL
By Saturn De Los Angeles

School schedules across Quebec were interrupted on Tuesday following a bomb threat putting staff and students' safety at risk.

According to CBC News, the majority of the provinces 71 pre-University schools were evacuated, searched, and temporarily shut down by authorities.

LOCAL
by Danny Aubry

LOCAL
by Patricia Petit Liang

LOCAL
by Catlin Spencer

Local
by Pauline Nesbitt

Two Montreal police officers were suspended without pay for threatening to tie a homeless man to a pole.  

According to CBC News, the incident took place in January of 2014, when the temperature was around minus 35 degrees.  

LOCAL
by Saturn de Los Angeles

The number of complaints against Montreal's taxi bureau have been increasing compared to last year.

Hosted by Julian McKenzie

Stories by Pauline Nesbitt, Alexa Everett, Patricia Petit-Laing

Produced by Emeline Vidal

LOCAL
by Pauline Nesbitt

The City of Montreal has purchased eight hectares of Angell Woods, in Beaconsfield, for $3.5 million.  This piece of land will be added to the protected l’Anse-a-l’Orme nature park.

According to CBC News, this property had been purchased by a developer for the same price in 2011, who had intended to convert an existing building into apartments, but the building has remained vacant.

LOCAL
by Julia Bryant

Montreal mayor Denis Coderre has released a new budget for road improvements over the next three years.

According to the Montreal Gazette, the Coderre administration is planning to spend a total of 5.24 billion dollars on the capital works program.

Hosted by Julian McKenzie

Stories by: Catlin Spencer

Produced by: Emeline Vidal

LOCAL
by Catlin Spencer

Montreal’s Concordia University will be hosting academics from all over North America on Friday to explore gender and human development.

LOCAL
By Emeline Vidal

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre announced Wednesday that the city will not dump its sewage in the St Lawrence river, following a federal law.

According to the Montreal Gazette, Coderre warns that withholding the sewage could lead to breaks in the sewage system, which would cause long-term pollution to the river.

The Quebec Environment minister sides with Coderre, finding that the province had already fully examined the case.

No mention was made of where or when the sewage would be released.

NATIONAL
By Saturn De Los Angeles

A new investigation reveals that many First Nation communities in Canada have experienced severe water problems in the past decade.

Hosted by Julia Bryant

Stories by Alexa Everett, Saturn de Los Angeles & Patricia Petit Liang

Produced by Catlin Spencer