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November 8, 2011
Read by: Aisha Samu
Stories by: Daniel Rowe, Niki Mohrdar, Aisha Samu, Tara Brockwell and Michael Lemieux
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Berlusconi's woes
Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister of Italy has denied rumours he would be imminently resigning.
No evidence for aliens says White House
The White House officially states that E.T. never left home.
Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wrote on the House’s website that the American government doesn’t have any sufficient evidence to support the existence of aliens.
Larson did acknowledge the fact that the existence of life trillions and trillions of stars away is possible. But the odds that they could make contact with earthlings is more than unlikely.
The statement was in response to two petitions by American citizens demanding disclosure on the question and answer section of the White House’s website called We the People.
Tintin to make its North American debut in Quebec on December 9
Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn” will premiere in North America on December 9 in Quebec.
The movie stars Jamie Bell as Tintin and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham.
Tintin’s world premiere was in Belgium on October 22, and the movie has also been released all throughout Europe. South America and Asia are next, with the movie coming out on Thursday.
It will arrive in theaters in the rest of Canada and in the U.S. on December 21.
Pornography and Art on the Internet
A lecture on the intersection of art and pornography will be given tonight in the EV building.
Professor Kelly Dennis will discuss the debate over Internet porn and its economies, its communities, its sexisms and its surveillance.
The lecture is part of Concodia's "Speaking of Photography" series.
Kelly Dennis teaches modern and contemporary art history and the history of photography at the University of Connecticut.
The lecture will take place at 6:30pm tonight in room EV-1.605.
A possible end to Occupy Vancouver
The Occupy protest in Vancouver is being ordered to shut down on Tuesday. Police will monitor the site of tents and other structures if the injunction is approved. Police will then have the power to take authoritative action.
Signs were put up by the city manager, Penny Ballem, asking citizens to pack up their tents from the Vancouver Art Gallery plaza where protestors were located.
The signs also indicate that the protestors are violating laws and therefore may be fined.
However, protestors say that they will ignore the signs and requests for them to leave.
To make things safer, a dome will be put up to make one large tent in order to be able to see if something bad is happening to an occupant.
November 7th 2011
Produced By Melissa J. Mulligan
Read By Sarah Deshaies
Articles By: Esther Viragh, Sofia Gay, Audrey Folliot, Daniel J. Rowe
Montreal criminal lawyer assaulted
Criminal lawyer Gilles Doré was assaulted outside his Montreal home Friday afternoon.
The victim was in the coma after his attack, but later regained consciousness and now rests in the hospital with serious injuries.
Doré represented several presumed Hells Angels Bikers that were arrested during operation SharQc in 2002.
That trial ended with Maurice “Mom” Boucher being convicted of murder two years ago.
No suspects have yet been arrested in the case of Doré’s beating.
Arts and Science students to strike Thursday
Concordia’s Arts and Science students are set to strike this coming Thursday. Nearly five hundred students voted in favour of the motion during a meeting on November third.
The strike will allow students to join in province-wide protests against tuition hikes. Premier Jean Charest's decision to raise Quebec student tuition by nearly 75% has drawn the ire of many students in the province.
Charest says the need for more education funds justifies the move. President of the Graduate Students’Association Robert Sonin called this claim dubious.
"Basically we think it's kind of a fraud. The government has the money, or could have the money. If they if they taxed properly and more fairly, they would have plenty of money to fund education and if they were really committed to education they could find the money fairly easily.
Council members stressed the wider trend of making education less accessible and more susceptible toprivate interests. Councilman Richard Hinton said Charest was helping transform universities.
"This isn't a question of spoiled students it's a question of the direction our society is taking as a whole."
Schools from across Montreal will be holding a joint protest on the 10th at Place Emilie-Gamelin. Concordia Student Union President Lex Gill promised the protest would be a monumental affair.
"What that means, really, is that we're going to shut this city down on November 10th. And I think we can win."
For CJLO News at Concordia's downtown campus, I'm Brandon Judd.
Evoking passion for science
This year’s Exposcience was held over the weekend. Concordia students travelled the distance to Pointe Clair to share their love for science with the West Island community. Our reporter Esther Viragh, was there.
Tarantulas could be pet, animal skeletons carefully examined. Cameron Tilson helped organize the science fair. Community outreach, he said, was one of the objectives.
“It’s bringing the university out to the public. In a lot of cases universities kind of have this ivory tower, there’s walls around everything. Well, we don’t. We rather break those walls down and actually come out and meet people.”
Concordia students started the event 28 years ago. Its purpose has been to foster an interest in all things scientific. Maria Centeno attended with her eight-year-old son, Luke.
“I just want to encourage him to see what he likes at an early age so that when he’s older and he’s thinking about what he wants to do, he’ll have some ideas. Just encourage him in the right direction.”
Curious faces listened attentively to an older generation. One that had felt the same initial attraction in the past, which now brought inspiration for the future.
Esther Viragh, CJLO News
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