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Second inmate escapes from Laval jail

Jail cells at the Southborough Police StationA prisoner escaped from the Montée St-François jail on Sunday night.

According to CBC News, 56 year old Gilles Meloche is the second inmate to escape from the minimum security federal prison located in Laval this past week.

Guards at the prison discovered Meloche was missing during a head count before curfew.


Eurozone unleashes financial plan

Eurozone has unleashed its six hundred and fifty billion dollar financial plan regarding the financial concerns of countries in need.

According to Aljazeera News, Eurozone's financial plan is called the European Stability Mechanism.

It was made up by finance ministers from seventeen countries for the purpose of bailing out struggling banks and economies.

The European Stability Mechanism will be put to work when the European Union's twenty-seven leaders meet in Brussels.


October 8th, 2012

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Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Alyssa Tremblay & Aisha Samu

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One arrested in rally against police brutality

350 people took to the streets in Montreal to protest police brutality.

According to CBC News, the protest started at 9pm on Saturday evening at Place Emilie-Gamelin. The protest was deemed illegal by Montreal police because a planned route wasn't given, but they allowed it to continue.

SPVM Sgt. Laurent Gingras stated that 2 flares were shot and some construction signs were taken down. One person was arrested for firing a flare but was freed after being given a ticket.

The protest was over by 11pm. A facebook page of the event mentions that Montreal police have rejected 46 complaints from the student crisis.


Triple murder suspect arrested in Florida

A man wanted in connection with 3 deaths in northern Quebec has been arrested in Florida.

According to the Gazette, 35 year-old Justin Bresaw was arrested in Tallahasee, Florida early Sunday morning. He was found charging his laptop at an electrical outlet behind a church. He resisted arrest and left 2 officers with a broken nose.

The man is the suspect in a deadly house fire that killed two men and one woman in Amos, Quebec located 500 kilometres north of Montreal.

Bresaw has been on the run since September 17th and has been on Canada's most wanted list since then.


Protests coincide with Putin's 60th birthday celebrations

At least six protesters were arrested in Moscow Sunday in demonstrations that marked Russian President Vladimir Putin's 60th birthday.

Around two hundred protesters were calling for answers in the death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Politkovskaya is known for vocally criticizing Putin's policies in Chechnya. She was shot in her apartment building in 2006.

According to Al-Jazeera, Putin was away from the protests, celebrating his birthday with family in St. Petersburg.


October 5th, 2012

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Beef recall list grows

Step 4The list of beef products incoming from Alberta grew once again on Thursday.

In a report by the Gazette, The Canadian Food Inspection Agency added a dozen of products sold across the country to the long list of recalled beef.

The beef in question came from an XL Foods plant located in Alberta. The plant was the centre of a recent E. coli outbreak.


Laval mayor’s home/offices searched in UPAC raid

Quebec’s anti-corruption squad launched raids of the home and offices of Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt.

According to CBC News, about 70 agents from UPAC made their presence felt at Vaillancourt’s house, city hall and buildings housing Laval’s engineering and HR departments.

UPAC began their operation at around 3:45 Thursday afternoon. Workers at city hall had to leave the building while agents looked for documents and seized computer hardware.


Romney does better than Obama in Denver Presidential Debate

Presidential Debate - October 3rd, 2012After the first Presidential Debate between Republican Candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, the vote is in that Romney outshined Obama.


October 2, 2012

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Stories by Jaime-Lee Gordon, Niki Mohrdar, Gregory Wilson


The latest election sends Quebecers to Ontario

sold-signAccording to CBC, real estate agents in Ontario have noticed an increase in interested Quebec buyers ever since the last provincial election in which the Parti Québécois won.

Diane Chretien, a real estate agent from Lancaster, Ontario says that many people are worried about a tax increase for those earing a higher income and would like to move before the new tax rules begin as early as December 31st.


Are the Miami Marlins using Adam Greenberg as a pawn?

I hate being pessimistic. I try to be an eternal optimist, for the most part. As a long suffering fan of both the Montreal Canadiens and the Miami Dolphins, it is the only thing that keeps me sane when both teams go through one futile season after another, the only rays of light being high draft picks and incessant, propaganda-filled messages of hope, only to have all those wonderful dreams of championship parades come crashing back to earth halfway through the season when playoffs become a mere afterthought.

And I was an Expos fan. Enough said.


October 2nd, 2012

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Stories by: Saturn de Los Angeles, Carlo Spiridigliozzi & Danny Aubry

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US and allies support terrorism says Syrian minister

UN building

Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem accused the U.S. and its allies of supporting terrorism in his country.

In a report by Al Jazeera, the minister made the announcement to the UN general assembly on Monday. He also said that Syria has been facing “organized terrorism” for over a year referring to allies of the opposition to the ruling regime.


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