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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Local 514 has become a news hour. Instead of focusing on one topic, we will now be covering multiple topics per episode to provide you with more coverage and perspectives to keep you up to date with what’s happening in Montreal. In today’s episode, we look at violence against women in Montreal and Quebec, as …
Local 514 has become a news hour. Instead of focusing on one topic, we will now be covering multiple topics per episode to provide you with more coverage and perspectives to keep you up to date with what’s happening in Montreal. In today’s episode, we look at migrant rights and the movement for status for …
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 …
