The Radio Centre-Ville Round Table: Recent Episodes

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Please enjoy the final broadcast of the Radio Centre-Ville Round Table, complete with an end-of-show rant by the moderator about why it is the last show...

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This Week's Topics:

• SPCA might not continue to serve Montreal if ban on pit bulls take 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.