Canadian Olympians continued to up the medal count in London.
On Wednesday, the men's eight-row team won silver. The former Olympic gold medallists lost to Germany, while hosts Great Britain came in third. But medal hopeful Alexandre Despatie was shut out of the men's synchronized diving.
On Tuesday, diving team Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion grabbed bronze in the women's synchronized 10...
Slain Concordia student Jun Lin was laid to rest on Thursday morning at a public funeral.
About 50 people came to pay their respects at Cote-des-Neiges Funeral Complex.
A brief service was led by Father Henry Rodriguez, who read Bible excerpts and spoke highly of Lin, who was brutally dismembered and killed last May.
"His death was cruel, horrible and indignant. He was a victim. It has been a...
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It's a first for Canada, and perhaps the world.
The Quebec government and Cree people are forming a new joint local administration in the north of the province.
It will give native peoples more say in how natural resources are used.
The agreement was signed Tuesday in the National Assembly.
Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come said the decision was motivated by the Plan Nord, Premier...
Léo Bureau-Blouin is making the jump from the picket line to the campaign trail.
The former head of the provincial cegep student union will run for the Parti Québécois in the riding of Laval des Rapides.
He made the announcement wednesday morning after days of speculation.
Bureau-Blouin became one of the figureheads in the ongoing student fight against rising tuition fees before his term as FECQ president ended in June.
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A major announcement on the student movement came out on Sunday night: The Coalition de l'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiant (CLASSE) will condemn acts of violence in the battle against tuition hikes.
The group, which represents the largest number of students in the fight against tuition hikes, came to the unanimous decision after hours of debate at a group meeting on Sunday.
The government has stuck a wedge in the already shakey partnership between the Federation étudiante universitaire dd Quebec (FEUQ) and the Coalition large de l’association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE).
Education Minister Line Beauchamp's proposal for an independent committee on university governance was welcomed by the FEUQ, but was condemned for the fact that it excluded the larger student coalition CLASSE.
"If Mme Beauchamp really wants to find a...
Over 200 000 protesters gathering at Place du Canada for Thursday's blockbuster day of action against tuition increases.
The Quebec government is moving ahead with tuition increases. The budget for 2012-2013 was released yesterday in Quebec City to the dissapoointment of student representatives.
Concordia University is being penalized by Quebec's Education Ministry for excessive spending on severance packages for top administrators.
In a letter dated yesterday to the chair of Concordia's Board of Directors and obtained by CJAD News, Education Minister Line Beauchamp says she is fining Concordia $2 million, that'll come out of the school's funding.
According to the minister, the university spent just over $3 million in...
Student groups are coming together to increase pressure on the government to halt tuition increases.The public inquiry into the Robert Pickton investigation has entered a new phase. Family members of the serial killer's victims testified on Monday in Vancouver, B.C.
Victim Marnie Frey's mother Lynn claimed social status was the reason a proper investigation was never launched by Vancouver police or former mayor Philip Owen.
"If Marnie would've been a woman from UBC, SFU or Langara School, somebody in the community who was higher up, or not a low-life prostitute, Philip Owen would've definitely have looked for her," she said. "But because she was an addicted prostitute, he didn't give a damn. And that's the truth of the whole matter. They just didn't give a damn."
Frey said the police patronized...
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Ever notice how TV commercials are always louder than the show you're watching?
Well, Nina Grewal did.
The MP from British Columbia decided to do something about it. She introduced a private member's bill to ensure that the volume of commercials would be consistent with regular television programming. But her bill died when the federal election was called earlier this year.
Now, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will take up her fight and introduce rules to make sure ads aren't louder than tv shows. The broadcast regulator promised to handle the...
Diplomats discussing the fate of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have yet to reach a decision.
The aim is to spare Libya further bloodshed by rigging an exit for the deposed leader.
A convoy of vehicles crossed into Niger from Libya late on Monday. They were said to be carrying gold, cash and senior members of the Gadhafi inner circle. But Western officials do not believe Gadhafi or his family were present on the convoy.
They also report the former leader is refusing the rebels’ offer of escape....
A young Gatineau woman's body was laid to rest Wednesday afternoon. But the police say they sill have no suspects in the slaying. Eighteen-year-old Valerie Leblanc's body was found behind her school, Cégep de l'Outaouais, last week. Her body had been beaten and burned.
Gatineau police chief Mario Harel said that despite having no suspects, his officers are putting all their energy into the investigation.
But Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu told Radio-Canada that provincial police should have taken over from...
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs will get life in prison for sexually assaulting two underage followers. A Texas jury took less than half an hour to come to the decision.
The prosecution says that Jeffs took two teenage members of his Church as brides. DNA evidence proved that he fathered a child with a fifteen-year old.
He is the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints, a radical branch of the Mormon religion. The group's ten thousand followers believe in polygamy and that Jeffs is God's spokesperson on Earth.
Jeffs defended himself...
One child is dead after a collision in N.D.G. on Tuesday. The accident happened at Grand Blvd. and Terrebonne St., a few blocks away from the Loyola campus. The 3-year-old boy was ejected from a SUV after it was hit by a Tundra 4x4. The second driver was not injured, but a woman and three children in the other car were taken to hospital.
Neighbours say that drivers treat Grand like a highway. They say it was an accident waiting to happen.
The Canucks are headed to the Stanley Cup Finals! The only Canadian team left in the NHL playoffs took down the San jJse Sharks in a double overtime 3-2 win Tuesday night.
The last time Vancouver made the Stanley Cup final was in 1994. Now that the Canucks have won the Western conference final, they will play either the Boston Bruins or the Tampa Bay Lightning for the Stanley Cup.
The vote mob movement has reached Concordia University. Seventy students joined in a friendly protest at the Hall building terrace Tuesday afternoon.
Students at universities across Canada have staged vote mobs in recent weeks. The first one took place at the University of Guelph. The idea is to encourage political candidates to campaign on issues that are relevant to students. Political leaders are accused of not targeting the youth vote.
Only 37.4 per cent of people aged 18 to 24 voted in the last federal election in 2008.
Students at Concordia's vote mob made clear they cared about issues...
Here's news that'll put your summer internships plans to shame: two Canadian men have made the shortlist for a social media marketing internship where the final candidate will work for Hollywood actor and bon vivant Charlie Sheen.
Sheen's Twitter account reached 1 million followers faster than any other account, helped by his erratic behaviour and eccentric sayings.
Eighty-two thousand people from 181 countries applied for an eight-week internship managing the beleaguered star's social media presence. That number was recently whittled down to 50.
Both Canadian finalists are in...
Get out your riot gear, the Habs are headed to the playoffs.
Thanks to an overtime goal by defenceman PK Subban, the Habs eliminated the Blackhawks and nabbed a spot in the playoffs.
The final score was 2-1.
Goalie Carey Price made forty-two saves.
The Canadiens are in sixth place in the Eastern Conference.
Charlie Sheen is looking to cash in on his predilection for coining catch phrases. You've no doubt heard all the troubled star's latest musings. Phrases like “Duh, winning” “vatican assassin” and “tiger blood” have since entered the pop culture lexicon.
In mid-March a company with ties to Sheen filed trademark applications for twenty-two eccentric phrases. The move covers a variety...
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has made his first big campaign promise, and it's a policy that could benefit students.
The Learning Passport plan would hand students cash for class. In return, Ignatieff said the plan would help make Canada the most educated...
Two CTV television screens were vandalized in the Hall building last week, and it will cost thousands to fix and replace them. One screen next to the People's Potato on the seventh floor was irreparably damaged by a magnet. Another screen on the fourth floor had its wiring ripped out, but it can and will be fixed, says the campus television station.
They say the total cost to fix and replace the screens will be $3,000. Program director Laith Marouf told CJLO that they will not use insurance to cover the costs in order to keep their premiums low.
In a released statement, station manager Laura Kneale compared the damage to the recent...
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Tuesday's march against police brutality began peacefully downtown when 500 marchers started at Jeanne Mance Street and de Maisonneuve Boulevard and walked towards Saint-Laurent Boulevard.
The march soon grew violent as protesters hurled projectiles and snowballs and cops, and police stopped the march at 6:40 p.m...
Two Concordia students studying in Japan are alive and well. Philippe McKie is a film production student living in Tokyo. He spoke to several Montreal news outlets and wrote a blog post about his experience.
On Monday, University spokesperson Chris Mota confirmed he and the other student are fine. She said that when disasters happen abroad, the university contacts exchange students to make sure they are safe.
A trial is underway this week in the case of a young man accused of dangerous driving. The police say that speeding was a factor in a car crash that killed Cassandra Boone, 16, over two years ago.
Her boyfriend Jacques Nicholas was 19-years-old when he was charged with dangerous driving. His Lexus slammed into a lamppost on a service road next to highway 40. Police say the car flipped over several times because of high speeds.
Nicholas attended a civilian eyewitness testimony on Monday with his mother.
Premier Jean Charest said on Tuesday that he is happy to no longer be the target of a countersuit. The premier and his former justice minister, Marc Bellemare, announced Monday that they have dropped their lawsuits against one another.
Last April, Charest launched the Bastarache commission after Bellemare made allegations that political influence played into the naming of Quebec Court judges. It was headed up by retired Supreme Court justice Michel Bellemare.
The day after the commission was announced, Charest...
A preliminary inquiry into a deadly shooting was launched yesterday at a Montreal courthouse. Terrell Lloyd Smith, 28, and Carey Isaac Regis, 42, are charged with murder, attempted murder and conspiracy.
Jean Gaston and Peter Christopoulos were killed in a shooting in a clothing boutique in Old Montreal last March. Police believe that reputed street gang leader Ducarme Joseph was the target. He escaped, but two other men were wounded in the attack.
A third man is still sought by police.
Quebec Court Judge Helene Morin placed a publication ban on evidence presented during the inquiry, which is expected to last another four days.
A man phoned the police at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning from near Decarie Boulevard and Jean Talon Street W. He reported that he felt threatened by a car parked nearby.
So why did the man charge his car towards a police cruiser once helped arrived?
Montreal police constable Anie Lemieux said that the suspect managed to hit one car before speeding off. The car charged at several other cruisers before the chase ended when the police opened fire, wounding the driver.
The suspect and four officers were taken to hospital for treatment. Three officers were treated for shock and one for injuries sustained during a collision with the suspect's vehicle. Both the injured officer and suspect are expected to recover.
This is the third time Montreal police...
A manufacturer is recalling drugs from pharmacy shelves.
Health Canada said the medications are all over-the-counter in-store brands made in 2007-2008.
So far, no one has been hurt by the drugs
Inspectors at the Pharmetics plant in Laval suspected there was possible contamination between product lines and mixups with expiry dates.
The recall includes acetaminophen tablets, and sinus and back pain relief medications.
The stores affected include Pharmaprix, Jean Coutu, Proxim and Loblaws.
If you have any of these medications at home, bring them to your point of purchase.
