Protesters Occupy Wall Street

Day 3 Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone 8 Protesters have set up shop on Wall Street in downtown Manhattan. And they don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.

Hundreds of people are protesting the financial sector’s monopoly over the wealth in the United States. They want a more transparent and accountable financial system.

The protest has been taking since September seventeenth.


NDG Ramps Up Anti-Graffiti Laws

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nguyendai/399985013/The NDG borough will now fine building owners who don`t get graffiti cleaned up on a specific deadline.

Inspectors have been assigned to provide them with a week`s warning or else they will have to pay.

Business owners of De Maisonneuve boulevard are concerned that vandals will come back once their buildings are cleaned.


September 21, 2011

Read by Joel Balsam

Produced by Nikita Smith

Stories by Joel Balsam


Air Canada Flight Attendants Agree to Tentative Deal

Air Canada 767If you are a Canadian air traveler, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Air Canada flight attendants will not strike after reaching a tentative deal right before the Wednesday deadline.


Troy Davis to Face Lethal Injection

joelcothran - FlickrThe Georgian Supreme Court has rejected Troy Davis’ final appeal to get off death row. He is set to face lethal injection Wednesday night. 

Davis was sentenced in 1991 for killing police officer Mark MacPhail. But many of the witnesses have changed their testimony or recanted since then. 

An extreme lack of evidence has caused many worldwide to oppose the ruling. Pope Benedict and former US President Jimmy Carter are among those that insist that he is innocent. 


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