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Employee taken hostage at Cowansville Penitentiary
A staff worker at Quebec’s Cowansville penitentiary was taken hostage by an inmate. After a nine hour hostage crisis the employee was set free. There were no obvious injuries.
No word as of yet on who the employee or inmate are. And the penitentiary has not told the public if they know of a motive behind the abduction.
The penitentiary is just southeast of Montreal. The Sureté de Quebec is investigating the incident.
News: December 14 2011
Read by: Katie Mcgroarty
Stories by: Chris Hanna, Joel Balsam
Produced by: Michael Lemieux
Guy-Concordia to get a facelift
Much needed repairs are coming to the Guy-Concordia metro station. This comes after reports surfaced over a cockroach infestation.
The renovations are a part of a two hundred and fifty million dollar plan to fix up Montreal’s metro stations. Spokeswoman for the Societé de transport de Montreal said they have prioritized renovations to this station.
Double the amount of turnstiles will be added to accommodate the estimated eight million riders who use the station. There are also plans to replace doors, lighting, ventilation and drainage systems at the Saint Mathieu exit.
The station has received increased traffic with Concordia’s new underground tunnels.
Work is set to begin in January. And the Saint Mathieu exit will be closed from March 5th to August 26th, 2012.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: Charlie Sheen acts out
Actor Charlie Sheen’s antics are nothing new but in early 2011 he took them to new levels.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: Nature takes its toll on Japan
On March 11, a viciously powerful earthquake struck Japan’s northeast coast.
The 9.0-magnitude quake then triggered a deadly tsunami bringing along a second wave of destruction. The damage was unimaginable.
Roughly 23-thousand people were killed or went missing. Towns were swamped and communities were burning from massive fires ignited by the quake.
Workers were still cleaning up the debris six months after the disaster had occurred.
The catastrophe also caused a nuclear crisis at the damaged Fukushima power plant. This exposed countless citizens to the dangers of radiation. An investigation found that Japan had failed to use radiation forecasts at the beginning of the crisis. Health effects from radiation on humans are still a concern to this day.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: It's Friday for Rebecca Black
It’s hard not to think about Fridays without the infamous Rebecca Black song playing in your head.
The video for “Friday” hit Youtube in March of 2011 and quickly went viral. The song amassed millions of views, countless parodies, and made Rebecca Black a household name.
Yet her instant rise to fame came at a cost. Rebecca left her high school after being bullied by classmates. The internet was no kinder to her, amounting her nasally, auto-tuned voice and tedious lyrics to the worst song ever made.
But Rebecca proved that any publicity is good publicity.From making a cameo in Katy Perry’s video for “Last Friday Night” to working on her upcoming album, Rebecca has gone from an internet meme to a full-fledged celebrity.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: Norway Massacre
On July 22nd Anders Breivik bombed Norway’s capital and gunned down young students at a youth summer camp.
Breivik had been planning the massacre for around nine years.
He said his actions were conducted to defend Europe from a Muslim invasion.
The killer is facing a life sentence of 21 years in jail. But it could be shortened if he is declared mentally unfit while committing the crime.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: The man who cried end of the world
May 21st, 2011 was supposed to be the end of the world. Almost seven months later we’re still here.
So who cried wolf? Radio preacher and Evangelist Harold Camping. He claims to have calculated the date of the rapture through numbers and dates found in the Christian bible.
About 5-thousand billboards were posted all around the U.S. announcing the end of the world. Many of his followers gave away their entire life savings before the alleged doomsday.
But, what did not happen on May 21st was the end of the world.
What did happen on May 21st? The eruption of Grimsvoetn, a volcano in Iceland. It spewed out a 20 kilometer smoke column. Luckily, the area is mostly unpopulated.
The cried wolf problem got worse when Camping revised his predictions. He set the new rapture date for October 21. When that prediction failed Camping apologized and resigned from his radio job.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs dies
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died on October 5th of this year at the age of 56.
Thousands of people across the globe immediately showed their remorse for the innovator. They left messages written in paper apples and pasted them onto the doors of Apple stores everywhere.
Many people were seen crying over the death of the computer comany’s former CEO and chairman.
Friend and colleague Tim Cook has taken over Job’s role as CEO. And Arthur Levinson is the new chairman.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal
Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch saw the foundations of his News Corp empire shaken to the core this year. British tabloid News of the World was found to have been hacking the voicemails of celebrities, royals and even kidnapping victims and relatives of dead soldiers. The practice went on for over a decade. Private investigators were hired by the paper to dig up dirt.
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