Arnold Schwarzenegger, the rising dollar and Quebec's producers union are placing Montreal's billion-dollar film industry in jeopardy. While campaigning, governor-elect Schwarzenegger promised to keep "runaway productions" out of Canada to help the California state budget.
Harm reduction activist Gillian Maxwell spoke at Concordia last Thursday. Maxwell, who works with several British Columbia lobby groups that have supported the Insite safe injection facility in it's fight to stay open, spoke about community involvement with harm reduction programs as part of the 16 annual Concordia University HIV/AIDS Lecture Series.