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An interview with the Québécois translator behind a francophone fan-base.

WESTFIELD — In the first City Council meeting after the election, prior-year bills and mayoral appointments were approved, but more contentious matters

The inquest into the death of a Belfast DJ has been shown CCTV footage of his unresponsive body lying on Great Victoria Street while a police officer administered CPR until paramedics arrived. Gerard McMahon (36), from Strand Walk in the city, died in the Royal Victoria Hospital hours after he was restrained by a number of police officers attending the scene where he was observed in the middle of the road wearing only his underpants. The inquest, being heard by Coroner Joe McCrisken, was shown ...

Out. >> based on a preliminary suggestion one way or the other. >> reporter: if you look at the website, you would think religion is a driving force here. but i had a sitdown interview yesterday with the u.s. attorney in detroit. she really downplayed that. she said its really an anti-government group. kind of a hatred of police and law enforcement that drove their actions or potential actions. >> mike, based on your conversations with the federal prosecutor in detroit, are they convinced they g...

Some of them who dont want to do good and who want to put others. >> doctor, i want to show something we showed our viewers yesterday. that is i guess a new trend where some kids like to put -- this seems silly. they spray some sort of cologne on their arms, light it on fire and put it out and post videos on youtube. obviously a different scenario of bullying but in terms of the dynamic of kids trying to impress other kids and using social media to do it, what do you make of this kind of stuff? ...

Myspace or youtube has somehow empowered these kids with bullying because its another way to demonstrate it other than their own experience in terms of bullying the victim. >> well, its another way, yes. its another way of gaining access to individuals. some of them almost anonymously to bully, let out the anger, push them around to see if they can hurt them. as we know, there was a case of a mother, an adult, doing that to a young girl in another state that also caused a serious problem in term...

Collaborator on these issues with bill cosby. doctor, what do you make of what happened in massachusetts? >> i think as an example, intense harassment and bullying can really drive someone to suicide. usually those kids are so victimized. feel uncared, unprotected. adults dont intervene to protect them. they sometimes feel the only way out of bullying and being pushed around is to kill themselves. that has happened before. so its very serious. i think schools have to do much more to intervene. t...

>> s.e. copp, have we gotten to the point it does make better politics to move to the center at a time when everybody is concerned about reliance on oil from the mideast? >> yeah, absolutely. again, i applaud the president. i think this makes really good political sense. i think its better for the country, for our environment, for the future, for our economy. i think its interesting while he might have said during the campaign hes open to a lot of different kinds of energy measures, he very clea...