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.