Montreal morning news Broadcasting in Canada continues to change very quickly. The CBC is slashing 20 per cent of its workforce, cutting back evening newscasts and in-house production. It may sell its headquarters in Toronto. Within 6 years, the CBC will cut 1,500 positions. 500 of the jobs will be eliminated over the coming year. President Hubert Lacroix has unveiled the changes to very disgruntled employees, who will have to find outer ways to pay their mortages, educate their children, buy groceries. The CBCs priorities will shift from radio and television to digital and mobile services. = A 22-year-old Montreal lad who picked up 3 young woman in his car, when he was only 18, then drove like a frigging nutjob through TMR, eventually crashing his vehicle into a tree, is out of jail. Laurent Raymond is very sorry for what he did; that he has great empathy for the courage the women have showed in their recovery. 16-year-old Claudia Di Iorio ended up in a come in the crash and nearly died from an infection; Evelyn Methot and Justine Rozon are the other young women. One of them will eat and drink and live on a feeding tube for the rest of her life. The punk suffered a broken leg. He was drinking that night. The girls say their terror fed his ego. Raymond was sentenced to three years in prison; ...he did one. = The Sûreté du Québec will increase its presence on our roads this Canada Day weekend. Theyll be looking for speeders, drunks, cellphone users and people refusing to wear their seatbelts. = Good news for motorists this week-end... The ramp leading from Highway 15 north to Highway 20 west will reopen tomorrow morning. - The partial closure of the ramp leading from Highway 720 west to Highway 15 north will end this weekend. - The ramp leading from Highway 15 south to Highway 720 east will also reopen. = The mayor of St-Colomban says the mess caused by the floods of this week will take a lot of time and money to clean up. Jean Dumais is asking the province to help. = Cat owners in Roxboro who let their cats out to roam, are worried. For the second time we know of, someone had tied a note to a cat, telling the owner if the animal showed up again, it would not be coming home. = When you raise them right, sometimes they do right. ...or maybe something else is at play. tvasports.ca/baseball/voir-un-vrai-don-juan-26062014 = Montreal weather Sun and 28 today and tomorrow
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:06:41 +0000