Saturday 3 September 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #174 - September 3rd, 2016



This Week's Topics:

- SPCA might not continue to serve Montreal if ban on pit bulls takes effect.
- Huge pile of plastic dog poop placed on Montreal bus shelter.
- Justin Trudeau is in China.
- CAQ thinks Quebec should let in fewer immigrants.
- Illegal immigrant demands that children of illegal immigrants be allowed to go to school here.
- Donald Trump visits Mexico.
- New stats released about medical-assisted suicide.
- NFL player refuses to stand for anthem.
- CRTC says Quebec cannot legislate Internet service providers to block access to gambling websites.
- Residents at a Quebec senior’s residence claim to have a so-called divine potato.

Saturday 27 August 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #173 - August 27th, 2016


This Week's Topics:
- Feds pay French photojournalist thousands to take pictures of Environment minister Catherine McKenna and her staff during climate change conference.
- Richard Henry Bain found guilty of second-degree murder.
- Top French court rules ban on burkinis violates basic freedoms.
- Trudeau government commits to $450 million dollars and up to 600 troops to UN peacekeeping missions.
- Donald Trump's personal physician says he needed just five minutes to write assessment of Trump's health.
- New Children's Hospital needs major repairs already.
- The STM poll shows satisfaction rate with them at 91 %.
- Canada Post’s union give strike notice.
- 12-year-old girl poses with dead animals she hunted and killed on a recent trip to South Africa.
- Montreal passes anti plastic bag bylaw.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken denies letter obtained by journalist contains secret recipe.

Saturday 20 August 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #172 - August 20th, 2016



This Week's Topics:
- American Olympian in trouble after false crime claim.
- The burkini.
- Jacques Daoust resigns as Transport minister.
- SPCA alarmed about Montreal's new restrictions on pit bulls.
- Infant dies after being left in car in St. Jerome.
- Tragically Hip to perform likely final concert.
- Montreal will name new park in NDG after the battle of Vimy Ridge.
- Justin Trudeau names first-ever woman as House leader.
- Hate crimes are on the rise in Quebec and in Montreal.
- Donald Trump.
- Montreal extending season for pools, beaches and exterior water installations.

Saturday 13 August 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #171 - August 13th, 2016



This Week's Topics:

- Tanker truck explodes on Metropolitan.

- Police kill suspected terrorist in Ontario.

- 7-month-old boy in Texas dies after he was left all day in a hot SUV.

- People will soon be able to grow their own medical marijuana at home.

- Another interesting week for Trump.

- Access to prompt health care.

- Women being encouraged to come to Canada and give birth.

- Immigration minister wants to increase immigration to fill labour needs.

Saturday 6 August 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #170 - August 6th, 2016


This Week's Topics:
- Homeless man attacked by teenagers.
- John Abbott student’s sexual assault accusations not being taken seriously.
- Canada lost 31,200 jobs in July.
- Group suing Loto-Quebec claiming they do not clearly publicize odds of winning.
- Phone scams.
- Unsecured web sites.
- Waiter arrested after serving seafood to customer who was allergic.
- A bad week for Donald Trump.
- The heat in the Metro.
- Quebec’s Order of Dentists recommends that people keep flossing.
- Games open in Rio.

Saturday 30 July 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #169 - July 30th, 2016



This Week's Topics:
- Hillary Clinton and the Democratic convention.
- Judge throws out convictions of two suspected terrorists.
- Journal de Montreal columnist blasts tennis star Eugenie Bouchard.
- Just for Laughs festival to hold benefit to help pay for Mike Ward’s legal fees.
- Pokemons will no longer appear at some sensitive locations.
- Quebec coroner suggests total ban on cell phone use while driving.
- Hydro-Quebec asking the energy board for another increase.
- New study claims train project would cause many troublesome issues.
- Rio Olympics about to start.
- It is Food Day in Canada.

Saturday 23 July 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #168 - July 23rd, 2016



This Week's Topics:
- Donald Trump and the Republican convention.
- Another police shooting of an unarmed black man in the United States.
- Quebec, B.C. and Ontario strike deal to make it easier to buy wine.
- Human Rights Tribunal rules comedian violated rights of someone by making fun of his disability.
- Montreal send notices to residences about lead pipes.
- two Air Transat pilots stopped at Glasgow Airport on suspicion of being drunk.
- More on the dangers of Pokemon Go...
- Big Steeves family reunion raking place.

Saturday 16 July 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #167 - July 16th, 2016



This Week's Topics:
- The terror attack in Nice.
- Donald Trump.
- Theresa May the new Prime Minister of England.
- Air Miles collected prior to January 1st, 2012 to be discarded.
- Lone tenor messes with lyrics of Canadian anthem at baseball All-Star game.
- The 40th anniversary of the Montreal Olympic games.
- Two entrepreneurs want to build a cafe and cultural centre made up of old Metro cars.
- Quebec gives students full marks for history essay question that was originally cancelled after it was leaked.
- The idiocy of Pokemon Go.

Saturday 9 July 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #166 - July 9th, 2016



This Week's Topics:
- The police officers shot and killed in Dallas.
- A reported 46 STM employees have failed drug or alcohol tests since 2011.
- Trudeau government renews more than $150 million in annual funding for aid projects and to help Afghanistan's security forces until 2020.
- Who is the middle class?
- CRA phone scam targets the gullible.
- Canadians can now apply to become Senators.
- The threatened postal dispute.
- 75% of meals prepared in Canada now are usually made in 15 minutes or less.

Saturday 2 July 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #165 - July 2nd, 2016



This Week's Topics:

- The P.K. Subban trade.

- The threat of a strike at Canada Post.

- 600,000 people have left Quebec since 1971.

- The "Three Amigos" summit.

- Donald Trump.

- Police forcibly arrest legally blind man in Montreal park.

- The political power of cyclists.

- No more laser cataract removal system at St. Mary's.

- Brexit.

- Conservative leadership candidates to attend Toronto pride parade.

- Canada Day / Moving Day.

Saturday 25 June 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #164 - June 25th, 2016



This Week's Topics:

- The United Kingdom votes to withdraw from the European Union.
- Bernie Sanders now says he will vote for Hillary Clinton.
- Quebec judge throws out parts of Montreal bylaw against the wearing of masks at public demonstrations.
- Catholic Church in Montreal will no longer leave priests alone with children.
- Francois Legault promises no referendum if CAQ elected.
- Montreal approves renaming of de Vimy Park to Jacques Parizeau.
- Alberta judge sentences parents of sick child who died after being treated with home remedies.
- Butcher shop in the Plateau caught adding horse meat to beef hamburger patties.
- Montreal's new Metro cars pulled from service after discovery of crack in bolt in one of the train's suspension systems.
- Justin Trudeau booed at St. Jean festivities when he speaks in English.

Saturday 18 June 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #163 - June 18th, 2016



This Week's Topics:
- The mass shooting in Orlando.
- Trudeau refuses to call ISIS actions genocide.
- Assisted suicide bill passes Senate.
- Young child killed by alligator at Disney World.
- Outremont wants to rename de Vimy Park after Jacques Parizeau.
- Montreal to ban pit bulls.
- Former Mexican President Vicente Fox warns Canadians about Donald Trump.
- Quebec’s new alert system can only broadcast messages only in French.
- Pope Francis says "great majority" of Catholic marriages today are invalid.
- Canadian Space Agency is looking for new astronauts.
- Las Vegas likely to land NHL team.

Saturday 11 June 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #162 - June 11th, 2016



This Week's Topics:
- The Grand Prix.
- Woman killed by pit bull.
- California judge sentences rapist to only 6 months in jail.
- Group representing disabled people launch law suit against the city, STM and AMT.
- Operating rooms at MUHC Superhospital sitting idle because they don't have money to use them.
- Terminally ill Liberal MP brings forward legislation to make the national anthem gender neutral.
- Hillary Clinton wraps up Democratic nomination.
- Gordie Howe dies.

Saturday 4 June 2016

The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table #161 - June 4th, 2016



This Week's Topics:
- Muhammad Ali.
- Quebec has longest emergency room wait times in western world.
- Gorilla that was shot and killed at a Cincinnati zoo after young child gets into the ape exhibit.
- Survey among American tourists shows only 5% did not like the idea of French-only signs.
- 94-year-old Norwegian-Canadian veteran living in Halifax denied request to move into a veteran's hospital.
- Mordecai Richler gazebo to cost more than $700,000 dollars.
- Montreal wants to build granite tree stubs on the mountain at a cost of almost $3.5 million dollars.
- Man has files complaint with the taxi bureau after driver apparently kept falling asleep on highway.
- Quebec government to mandate dealerships to sell certain number of electric cars or face fines.