Earlier this month STM officers pepper sprayed Montrealer in close proximity during a mental health check. How can police be held more accountable as police funding continues to rise? Local 514 investigates.
Generations of colonialism, notably residential schools and the 60’s scoop has led to homelessness among the Indigenous population in Montreal. Recently, elder and homeless woman Elisapie Pootoogook froze on the streets of Montreal after being kicked out of Atwater metro station. How can we help the homeless population and eradicate homelessness in Montreal? Local 514 …
Bill 96, Quebec’s French language law, challenges Canada’s constitution to affirm Quebec as a nation and French as its official right. This law seeks to strengthen the language, but ultimately it can lead to a lack of privacy, a threat to doctors maintaining their license, and more. Activist Giovanni Bisciglia discusses the privacy breach businesses …
Avi Karp, a representative for people with disabilities for the young democrats of Quebec, who is living with multiple sclerosis, joins Local 514 in studio to discuss barriers by the government and what can be done to change the situation.
With recent Re-election of Projet Montreal, with can we expect for the future of public transit in Montreal? Local 514 Investigates
What is the significance of land acknowledgements and what is Land Back? In this episode of Local 514, we look at Land Back and how this can be achieved in Montreal and beyond.
Montreal’s Chinatown is the last Chinatown in Quebec. But gentrification poses a threat to its future. This episode of Local 514 explores the gentrification of Chinatown and how this stems from systemic racism and the erasure of Chinese history in Canada.
The Québec government is proposing having both “sex” and “gender” on birth certificates and only allow people to change their “sex” if they had gender-affirming surgery Bill 2 will divide members of trans community in two different categories, as only those who have had gender-affirming surgery to change the sex listed on their birth certificates …
This week, the Native Women’s Shelter is asking the Quebec Human Rights Commission to launch an inquiry into systemic racism in employment at Batshaw Youth and Family Services Centre. Indigenous children represent 52.5% of the children within the foster care system. Yet Indigenous children make up only 7% of the youth population in Canada – identifying how …
Isolation and curfew measures have notably led to our population struggling with mental health, but is there another epidemic looming as the pandemic continues? In 2017, Canada saw a surge in opioid-related deaths. British Columbia, deemed ground zero for opioid related overdoses, faced a higher amount of overdoses for the first half of 2017 than …
