Looking for an independent news source in Montreal? Produced by CUTV and hosted by Savanna Craig, Local 514 provides bi-weekly updates on a range of issues that are affecting Montrealers from the perspectives of local voices.
Some of the ongoing issues that Local 514 covers include Montreal’s housing crisis and tenant advocacy, the effects of municipal, provincial, and federal policies that disenfranchise marginalized communities, the prevailing matter of climate change, and much more!
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Some Quebecers go to the emergency room, as a result of not being able to access their family doctor in a timely manner, while around 1 million Quebecers are without a family doctor. Some have been waiting four years to be placed with a family doctor… but could this change? Quebec has announced it has …
Moderna is opening a production facility in Montreal, securing Canadians more jobs and Canadian made vaccines. Canada has one of the highest vaccination rates worldwide, yet our government is allowing for patents to continue on vaccines, preventing worldwide access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Local 514 investigates how capitalism prevents the pandemic from ending.
Inuit represent 10% of Indigenous people in Montreal, but account for 43% of homeless Montrealers who are Indigenous. Circumstances including residential schools, the 60’s scoop and forcing Inuit into settlements have led to generational trauma and barriers in our society. But colonialism isn’t a relic of the past, as Inuit in Inuit Nunangat (the four …
A municipal party with progressive roots – but have they strayed from these roots since their win in 2017? Local 514 investigates this, looking into the city’s management of housing, the police and gentrification in the city.
Quebec has removed all COVID-19 restrictions, excluding the mask mandate, which is set to end mid-April. Despite the feeling that the pandemic is over as the province begins to open up, this is far from reality, as hospitalizations have been rising and there have been 1,614 cases detected in Quebec in the last 24 hours. …
20-year-old Alexander Malofeev, who has been outspoken against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was banned from performing at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Montreal last week. He was dropped from the concert as a result of public backlash of supporting Russian culture amidst Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. This is one of the examples of how …
Questions about Canada’s treatment of undocumented migrants and refugee claimants have been raised following the death of an unidentified migrant in a Canadian Border Services Agency detention centre in Laval. The incident was just one example of the dangerous and precarious conditions faced by migrants who come to Canada. They face everything from indefinite detention …
The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) is receiving the second highest increase in their budget in Montreal’s history, with an additional $45 million dollars this year. Just last month, the SPVM announced that they went over budget in 2021 by $51 million. The city of Montreal has agreed to pay this, …
Staff at homeless shelters in Montreal have been discouraged by what they see as over policing and an otherwise apathetic government response, homeless people are turning to mutual aid in greater numbers to survive the pandemic.
Repression, punitive and not based on sound science — these are some of the descriptions used towards the provincial governments handling of the pandemic. With Montreal’s municipal government increasing the police budget, the second largest increase in history by an extra $45 million in 2022, have punitive measures worked? Quebec was listed as the second …
