MONTREAL — Focus Montreal introduces Montrealers to people who are shaping our community, bringing their stories into focus.
It airs on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and at midnight.
Take a look at who we’re meeting this week on Focus Montreal:
Undercover Uber: The inside scoop on ride-sharing
Montreal taxi drivers made good on their promise of a massive anti-Uber protest this week.
Their message — there is not enough room in this city for traditional taxis and Ubers.
Cabbies said they targeted the airport because the airport demands more than $2 million for taxi drivers to operate but that Uber drivers operate for free.
Journal de Montreal reporter Christopher Nardi spent a week undercover as an Uber driver recently and he reports that it’s no picnic.
Nardi dropped by Focus Montreal to recount his experience behind the wheel.
Laval runaways: prostitution and human trafficking
It came to light earlier this week that five girls who vanished from a group home in Laval could be part of a much bigger human trafficking problem.
Opposition parties at the National Assembly argue politicians have known about the problem for about two years.
In 2014, the Parti Quebecois (PQ) government released a report revealing how young women in Laval were coerced or forced into prostitution by street gangs.
Now as the official opposition, the PQ says the Liberal government has refused to act.
The Liberals insist the document was not a full report and that there was no concrete list of recommendations. The government said that as such they are still continuing to address the issue of sexual exploitation.
Politics aside, the problem of teenage runaways is indeed not new.
Pina Arcamone from the Missing Children’s Network speaks to Global Montreal’s senior anchor Jamie Orchard about some of the reasons that could explain why so many young women end up on the streets.
West Island Great Spin
“Give it all you’ve got!” That is the theme for this year’s West Island Great Spin for the Canadian Cancer Society.
Mei-Lin Yee is a breast cancer survivor and Sherry Thacker is a personal trainer and founder of The Fabulous Sisters in Vaudreuil.
The duo plan to “give it all they’ve got” at the upcoming spin-a-thon on Feb. 20., where participants will take on different spinning challenges.
Thacker and Lee share their story with Global Montreal’s Jamie Orchard.
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