Monday, May 25th, 2015 – 1pm

1:00 – Sports Panel Sports Panel
Troy Smith, Associate Coach, Hamilton Bulldogs
In studio: Paul Johnson, afternoon sports, 570 News
Troy Smith says it’s about moving forward. The former head coach of the Kitchener Rangers recently took a new job as associate coach with the Hamilton Bulldogs. The Hamilton native says it’s exciting to be back home. Meanwhile, Tampa Bay is one win away from the Stanley Cup final. Ben Bishop made 26 saves last night as the Lightning blanked the New York Rangers 2-0 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final. Chicago looks to keep the momentum going tonight in game 5 of the Western Conference final against the Anaheim Ducks.

1:30 – BlackBerry Job Cuts
Carmi Levy, Independent tech Analyst,
More layoffs are coming at Blackberry, but the smartphone maker is being quiet on numbers. The Waterloo-based company quietly put out a statement late Friday saying the job cuts would affect people who make the hardware, software and applications for its phones, which include devices such as the BlackBerry Bold, Classic and Passport. BlackBerry said it wants to reduce the size of its device operations and make them profitable again — but it didn’t say how many jobs will be cut. The company had about seven-thousand employees worldwide as of last September. The latest round of job cuts comes despite chief executive John Chen’s statement last August that BlackBerry had come to the end of three years of layoffs. BlackBerry has faced an onslaught of competition from other phone manufacturers including Apple, which first wanted a slice of the consumer market but is now aggressively pursuing large corporate clients. At the peak of its success — before the job slashing began — BlackBerry had about 20-thousand employees around the world.

1:45 – Dalhousie Facebook scandal
Mathieu Doucet, Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo
Dalhousie dentistry students who posted misogynistic comments about their female classmates in a private Facebook group will be allowed to graduate. University officials made the announcement Friday as they released a report that found sexism was deeply rooted in the faculty. University president Richard Florizone said 12 of the 13 men who participated in a restorative justice process after the sexually violent comments came to light late last year could receive their degrees if they fulfil the program’s clinical requirements by May 27. The report into the sexist online posts concluded that the dentistry students started the so-called Gentlemen’s Club in 2011 as a bonding exercise, but that it turned offensive over the more than three years it existed. The 70 page report says “Members sought to ‘one up’ each other in ways that were frequently crude in nature and aimed at shock value.”
Quotes:
-Members of the Class of DDS Gentlemen page reportedly voted on which woman they’d like to have “hate” sex with and joked about using chloroform on women.
-In another post, a woman is shown in a bikini with a caption that says, “Bang until stress is relieved or unconscious (girl).”
-It cited a student lounge at the school called “the Cavity,” that was scrawled wall-to-wall with racist, homophobic and sexist graffiti dating back to the 1990s. Students also signed their names and date of graduation next to the comments.