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China censors online video streaming

Live video streamers in China will have their sessions monitored starting on Dec. 1, when new rules go into effect to help the Chinese government block content that it deems threatening to national security or social order.

The rules, announced today on the website of the Cyberspace Administration of China, require streaming services to log user content and data for 60 days, according to Fortune. Users and the platforms they use can be punished if any objectionable content is found.

Professional live broadcasts have been popular in China since at least 2008, when Olympics fans flocked to streaming sites to watch the Beijing games, which were banned from Chinese television. Recently, it has exploded in popularity thanks to apps and platforms like Huajiao and Inke, which let anyone find an audience for pretty much anything they want to stream. Inke has more than 50 million users, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Unlike Facebook, which only offers money to its most popular broadcasters, Chinese live video platforms are often profitable even for small-time streamers. Their viewers pay to watch them discuss topics they suggest, and some streamers on Huajiao rake in more than $100 per session and thousands of dollars per month, according to TechCrunch. Perhaps the closest American equivalent is Twitch, whose successful video game streamers can offer paid subscriptions to their channels.

In addition to introducing a monitoring requirement, the new rules also prohibit online news outlets from streaming original reporting. Instead, they must use state-sanctioned reports and sources.

That censorship is the government’s primary motive for monitoring live online video is nothing new in China. The stipulation that platforms be held responsible for policing content signals that it largely sanctions the popularity of small-time broadcasters. Still, restricting live streams at all will benefit the largest streaming platforms and content providers, which are willing to acquiesce to the government’s censorship requirements.

This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

Richard Bergeron se joint à l’équipe Coderre

MONTRÉAL – Après avoir siégé deux ans comme indépendant, l’ex-chef de Projet Montréal Richard Bergeron a rejoint dimanche l’équipe de Denis Coderre.

«Vous savez que j’ai été son concurrent aux dernières élections, mais j’ai appris à travailler avec lui depuis trois ans», a rappelé dimanche Richard Bergeron à propos de sa collaboration avec Denis Coderre en 2014, lors de la création du bureau de l’inspecteur général.

Le maire de Montréal a profité du colloque de son parti dimanche pour annoncer que M. Bergeron, ancien chef de Projet Montréal qui siégeait comme indépendant depuis deux ans au Comité exécutif, rejoignait ses rangs.

Il s’agit du troisième élu à passer de Projet Montréal à l’Équipe Coderre, après Marc-André Gadoury en août 2015 et Érika Duchesne, en mars dernier. Russell Copeman, maire de Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a joint lui aussi les rangs de l’Équipe Coderre vendredi dernier.

«À un an de l’élection presque jour pour jour, il était important de prendre cette décision», estime M. Coderre.

«Triste»

«Ce n’est pas une surprise, mais il faut dire que depuis que Richard Bergeron n’est plus à Projet Montréal, nous n’avons jamais eu autant de membres et notre situation financière n’a jamais été aussi bonne. Je vous laisse tirer vos conclusions», a réagi Alex Norris, porte-parole de Projet Montréal.

Toutefois, il «trouve que c’est triste» que M. Bergeron ne défende plus les positions qu’il avait lorsqu’il était à la tête de Projet Montréal, y voyant là une perte de sa crédibilité.

Les Bourses soulagées par l’absence de poursuites du FBI

Une vague de soulagement traversait les places boursières mondiales, de l’Europe à Wall Street en passant par l’Asie, à la veille du scrutin présidentiel américain, après la recommandation du FBI de ne pas poursuivre Hillary Clinton, la favorite de la finance mondiale.

 «Puisque le FBI a annoncé qu’il confirmait sa décision de juillet de ne pas poursuivre Hillary Clinton pour avoir utilisé un serveur privé (lorsqu’elle était secrétaire d’Etat), sans surprise l’appétit des investisseurs pour le risque s’est renforcé», remarquent les analystes de Daiwa Capital Markets.

 Après la réouverture de l’enquête qui avait fait l’effet d’un coup de tonnerre il y a dix jours, plongeant les marchés dans l’incertitude sur l’issue du scrutin présidentiel américain, le chef du FBI, James Comey, a encore créé la surprise.

Dans un courrier au Congrès, rendu public dimanche, il a fait savoir qu’après avoir examiné des courriels découverts récemment, il maintenait ses conclusions de juillet : il n’y a pas matière à poursuivre Mme Clinton pour avoir utilisé un serveur privé quand elle était secrétaire d’Etat.

Cette nouvelle a suscité l’enthousiasme des investisseurs. Wall Street a démarré la séance en nette hausse lundi. À 10h16, l’indice Dow Jones gagnait 1,43% ou 255,9 points à 18 144,20 points pendant que le SP 500 grimpait de 1,57% ou 32,68 points à 2117,86 points.

Le Nasdaq n’était pas en reste, avec un gain de 1,76% ou 88,82 points à 5135,19 points.

À Toronto, la progression était de moindre ampleur, avec l’indice SP/TSX montant de 0,68% ou 98,54 points à 14 607,79 points.

En Europe, Paris avançait de 1,60%, Londres 1,46% et Francfort 1,67% vers 8h30, heure de Montréal.

En Asie, Tokyo a nettement rebondi lundi, l’indice Nikkei engrangeant 1,61% ou 271,85 points à 17 177,21 points, tandis que la Bourse de Shanghai a fermé en hausse de 0,26%, celle de Hong Kong progressant de 0,70%.

Les marchés verraient d’un meilleur oeil une victoire de la candidate démocrate, aux positions bien connues et perçues comme un gage de continuité. À l’inverse, une potentielle présidence Trump est génératrice d’incertitudes, à la fois à cause du penchant du républicain pour la controverse, mais aussi de son manque d’expérience politique.

«La décision du FBI de ne pas modifier ses conclusions après l’examen des nouveaux emails découverts soulage les marchés à la veille du scrutin», observent les stratégistes du courtier Aurel BGC.

La détente était aussi perceptible sur le marché des changes. Le billet vert retrouvait du poil de la bête vis-à-vis de l’euro qui fléchissait à 1,1059 dollar contre 1,1137 dollar vendredi vers 21H00 GMT, tandis que le yen, valeur refuge, se repliait : le dollar montait à 104,44 yens à 14H35 GMT, contre 103,04 yens vendredi vers 21H00 GMT.

Mais c’est surtout le peso mexicain qui profitait de la nouvelle, voulant croire en une défaite du candidat républicain : il s’échangeait à 18,625 pesos pour un dollar, contre 19,0266 vendredi, soit une hausse de 2,5%.

Donald Trump fait figure de repoussoir pour la devise mexicaine, du fait des menaces du milliardaire d’expulser des Etats-Unis des millions de migrants illégaux, de renégocier les accords de libre-échange et de faire payer le voisin du sud pour la construction d’un mur sur leur frontière commune s’il accède à la Maison Blanche.

Si l’enthousiasme régnait lundi sur les places financières il restait cependant tempéré par une certaine prudence, alors que le suspense demeure entier sur qui de Mme Clinton ou de M. Trump l’emportera.

Les sondages sont serrés, même s’ils donnent un léger avantage à la candidate démocrate.

Selon les experts de Mirabaud Securities Genève, «si les derniers sondages donnent toujours la démocrate Hillary Clinton en avance, certains États clés pourraient cependant apporter des surprises demain. Les investisseurs en ont bien conscience».

John Oliver Wants To Sell You On Why Multi-Level Marketing Stinks

John Oliver has a pitch for you. Yes, that’s right. In last night’s Last Week Tonight, he asked for just 30 minutes of your time to sell you on something that will change your life forever: an exposé on Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) schemes.

You may have seen the informercials but more likely, you’ve seen your friends on Facebook trying to sell you on them. The companies and products run the gamut from stalwarts Amway and Mary Kay to internet-driven newbies like Jamberry and LuLaRoe. If you’ve seen Herbalife, Rodan and Fields, or Avon products being shilled (or if you’re shilling them) on your Facebook feed, MLM has touched your life.

MLM companies promise to make you money in two ways. One is through the actual direct sales: you buy inventory for one price, and then sell it to your friends and family for a slightly higher price. But the real money for MLM sellers is bringing more people in under them. Each individual makes money when they bring in more individuals below them, and when those individuals then recruit more individuals below them, and so on.

The industry is indeed huge: it brought in $36 billion in sales in 2015, Oliver reports.

Discussing the settlement Herbalife made with the FTC earlier this year, Oliver highlights a clip of FTC chair Edith Ramirez saying that the word “pyramid” doesn’t appear in the legal complaint, but that it’s “not not a pyramid.”

“It’s not a pyramid,” Oliver enthuses about MLM companies, “it’s just pyramid-shaped! Like a Dorito, or an Angry Bird, or just a pile of bulls**t.”

So to teach folks how to avoid pyramid schemes, Oliver — who has in the past made his points through becoming a debt buyer and his own sub-prime lending commercial — decides to spread the news in the most efficient way possible: a pyramid scheme.

Using the hashtag #ThisIsAPyramidScheme, Oliver gushes, “If someone you know is thinking about joining an MLM, this is a huge opportunity. And let me show you how it works.”

Oliver then steps out onto a stage alight with pyrotechnics, lasers, and flashy graphics, to tout a “fantastic product for you to share with friends and family.”

And what is this fantastic product? “This entire video about why MLMs are f**king awful.”

In short: Oliver is trying to sell us all on the MLM scheme to very literally end all MLM schemes.

“Let me break it down for you,” Oliver explains. “By sharing this, you can be an independent distributor for a leading web video about the dangers of MLMs.”

“You can do this full time or part time and give your family the lifestyle they deserve, which is frankly not getting caught up in this bulls**it.”

“Here is how it works: simply watch this video, and forward it to five people. And then instruct them to send it to another five people, and so on and so on. Within fourteen cycles, every single person on Earth will have seen this.”

And because MLMs target the Latino population specifically, Oliver and his team also uploaded Spanish-language version of the entire 30-minute segment, which you can watch in English below.

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How 5G Will Change the Face of Mobile Marketing

5G networks are expected to start rolling out this coming year and will likely be standard in 2018. Given the profound impact that 4G had on mobile advertising, and the fact that by 2020, there will be an estimated 20.8 billion connected devices in the world – up from the current figure of 6.4 billion – the advent of 5G represents an enormous opportunity within the world of mobile. Indeed, we are looking at a seismic event that will dramatically change mobile marketing for publishers, advertisers and end users.

Here’s what you should know now.

More than speed

Looking back on it now, we can see how 4G ushered in the era of mobile video advertising, a format that has come to dominate mobile marketing. While the limits of 4G are still being pushed, as with Finnish telecoms firm Elisa, which recently claimed the new world record for fastest mobile internet at an astonishing 1.9 gigabyte per second, 5G will theoretically make download speeds of 10,000 Mbps the norm.

But it’s the enormous speed and high capacity that’s going to open new frontiers. 5G will empower media companies to deliver 4K video and high quality AR and VR content to mobile devices. It will become the backbone of a digital society enraptured with new technologies that deliver more realistic, immersive and interactive experiences. With 5G just around the corner, the marketing world should be poised for still more innovation, and with that a subsequent vast array of new mobile marketing opportunities.

New reality

As noted above, the increased power of 5G will make the expansion of augmented/mixed reality more feasible, with mobile VR (virtual reality headsets not connected to a computer) driving that adoption.

Consider for a moment where that could take marketing, for example in a travel app. It could use VR to build photorealistic representations of candidate vacation spots or hotels for customers to help them choose. From your living room or office, you could have a mini-experience with the Taj Mahal, Amazon River, and Aurora Borealis over Reykjavik; you could move effortlessly from one location to the next simply with a wave of your hand. Done right, applications like this could enthrall users and drive conversions in ways which could make “traditional” clicking and swiping anachronisms.

In the classic sci-fi movie Total Recall its lead character purchased a memory implant for a holiday adventure. Given where things appear to be going it is entirely plausible that VR holiday content will fuel a new, viable ecommerce market.

Rather than selling actual physical holidays brands and publishers could also offer ‘VR vacations’ as in-app purchases. In this scenario, the traditional levers to pull for mobile commerce – targeted UA, engagement and retention tactics – would be just as important or more important than ever, as more and more « content » for purchase becomes mobile and digital.

Growth in AR and VR is increasing at an exponential rate. TechCrunch reported that their revenues could reach $150 billion by 2020, with augmented reality taking the lion’s share at around $120 billion and VR at $30 billion.

Some companies are ahead of the game. Magic Leap, which has demoed what it calls ‘Mixed Reality,’ has been deemed “the world’s most secretive startup” and has already garnered $1.4 billion in investment. Its engineers are working on a headset that uses actual surroundings blended with digital light and graphic elements to create a version of the world that seems just as believable as the real thing. Their goal is to use human sight patterns to create an algorithm to make things look as realistic as humanly possible.

With the planned deployment of 5G expected in 2018, the proliferation of affordable VR and AR, for example Sony’s mass-market PlayStation VR rolling out in October 2016 – a record $2 billion USD invested in VR this year alone – it’s safe to assume that virtual reality will become the a widespread platform for mobile in the very near future.

More data

Smart 5G wearables, 5G-powered IoT devices and AR/VR/mixed reality will empower mobile advertisers with unprecedented access to consumers, their personal interests, and their activities. Done right, this will be on an anonymous level, with no data tied to a personal identity.

All this information combined will take advertising to a new level of tailoring and relevance; given that mobile already offers a terrific degree of targeting and the ability to continually iterate based on data, additional insights garnered from 5G will take it even further. Think of the possibilities with augmented reality ads on 3D Google maps, ultra-intelligent refrigerators that link to markets in your area, context-aware ads on IoT home devices that find deals on items you need for dinner, or VR goggles that track eye movements for controlling on-screen graphic interfaces – the only limit is one’s imagination.

Who will succeed?

So what will it take to successfully leverage 5G? A willingness to grab the bull by the horns and leverage virtual and augmented marketing, of course.

According to the Ericsson Mobility Report, the industries that will benefit the most from 5G will be those that connect something in the physical world to the internet and vice versa. It’s going to be all about customisable connectivity. For advertisers, the sky really is the limit. There’s much to anticipate in the shiny 5G world of possibilities.

Once this game-changer for mobile marketing and advertising enters the ring, 5G will push augmented and virtual reality and IoT into the mainstream, and marketing and advertising will be right there with it.

John Oliver Recruits Jane the Virgin’s Jaime Camil to Explain Why Multi-Level Marketing Companies Are the Worst

Millions of aspiring entrepreneurs sign up for multi-level marketing companies, or MLMs, every year. On Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver took a closer look at how companies like Mary Kay, Nu Skin, and Herbalife function, hiring salespeople to peddle often-dubious products. Oliver’s conclusion? MLMs are “fucking awful.”

How Businesses Can Take Advantage of the Power of Video …

Danny Wong is the co-founder of Blank Label, an award-winning luxury menswear company. He also leads marketing for Conversio, an all-in-one ecommerce marketing dashboard, and Tenfold, a modern phone intelligence platform. To connect, tweet him @dannywong1190 or message him on LinkedIn. For more of his clips, visit his portfolio.

How Rethinking the Social Content Strategy Helped an Animated Video Marketing Company Drive More Demand on …

An animated video creation, production and marketing service company for technology companies like Cisco, BMC Software, Compuware, IBM, UPS, Brocade, Oracle, CA Technologies and many others did not have the systems or processes in place to build and leverage relationships. They relied on “word of mouth” and on satisfied clients continually coming back without any urging. But because of the “marketing slow down” when enterprise IT technology companies shrank their marketing budgets, clients stopped investing in expensive animated videos.

Because there was no “keep in touch” system in place, previous clients forgot about the animated video firm as they were no longer on “top of mind.” So we went to build a LinkedIn community to re-engage clients and prospects and provide them with discussions and content that moves relationships forward. But most of the company’s content was around video production so it was later stage content. For example, here are the blog articles the firm was creating:

• Don’t forget sales when creating your explainer videos
• How can your video content address group dynamics
• Starting at the end: constructing videos around the call to action
• Six questions to ask when planning a 2-Minute Explainer
• 3 things to understand in planning an enterprise explainer solutions
• The must-have information to include in a two-minute B2B video
• Five mistakes B2B organizations make when condensing information into two minutes
• Why make your introductory B2B content marketing video two minutes long?
• 4 ways to help ensure your B2B content marketing videos create conversations
• How to condense your product information and marketing messages Into a two-minute (or less) video
• Why I don’t like storyboards for B2B videos

What Was Wrong with This Content?

You see there was no content to drive demand. There was no content to create an unconsidered need and an unexpected urgency and demand for the company’s services. You see, the company was only basing their content on what customers were saying what their needs were. So, they were responding to those known needs with commodity messaging that were very much like the information their competitors were providing. They weren’t showing prospects a pathway to change and giving them the urgency to do it now.

A recent Forrester study shows that 74% of committed executive buyers will invest in the company that is able to create the buying vision and turn it into a path to value. Can you tell me how articles around video production creates the buying vision? It doesn’t!

How the Animated Video Explainer Firm Started to Create the Buying Vision and Demand

In talking with our client, we found out that in many cases their animated explainer videos were just being put on the homepage or product page and used within their tradeshow efforts and that was it. Now as Content Marketing Institute shows, marketers are using at least 13 different content marketing tactics.

So our client needed to put a social content marketing plan in place, where there were articles, podcasts, white papers and webinars on how the videos should be integrated with social media platforms like LinkedIn, webinars (how videos should be used before, during and after the event), email marketing, PR and other marketing initiatives.

The animated explainer video firm literally laid out a road map that shows how the videos should be used within their everyday sales and marketing activities and demonstrated concrete results for clients that were using an integrated approach.

Notice, how the firm is now creating an unexpected need. Their prospects’ minds and budgets may be on a different approach like webinars but now they see exactly how they can get an even greater ROI for the initiatives they are focusing on.

The firm also created a plan to focus on sales enablement and how sales and marketing leaders need to have a new thinking about explainer videos and design them for buying teams that not only involved IT but also operations, finance, sales and marketing and other departments. This content that created a new need led to a completely new revenue stream for our client: Buyer’s Journey Video Bundles.

Cisco invested in the bundle to communicate the business value of their workload automation software to data center operations, to data center architects and to big data specialists – 3 different and unique audiences. Axios invested in the bundle to help IT champion the extension of their popular assist platform and to help other departments like HR, corporate finance department and facilities and security understand how they can automate repetitive tasks and replace high maintenance home-grown solutions with ITIL-compliant cloud solutions. Five9 commissioned the video bundle to target IT operations, COOs, and sales execs within contact center outsourcers. Journey sales used the video bundle to tell sales managers about how their analytic features can help fill the pipeline, tell the sales team how they can use smart rooms to increase engagement and provide a video invitation to customers to show customers how smart rooms benefit their team.

Community Building, Re-Engagement and Lead Nurturing with the Right Social Content Leads to More Revenue Using LinkedIn

Once the animated video firm had the right content they were then able to create a LinkedIn community that was filled with discussions that focused on the unexpected video needs of IT sales, marketing and sales enablement leaders. Because their discussions introduced new ideas their prospects weren’t thinking about and because these discussions led prospects to content that created the buying vision, there was a quick demand for the video firm’s services. In fact, after re-engaging with a former client on LinkedIn, the firm received a video project that generated $38,000 in revenue and it was an opportunity that would have otherwise been missed.

Based on the sales and marketing initiatives that the target companies were engaged in – and on the needs and goals of the target decision makers, the company also began a 1-to-1 nurturing campaign that showed the prospects how they should be using videos. From there, they led prospects to white papers that they can download. They were then able to nurture the prospects on and off LinkedIn. Through an email campaign, prospects were getting our client’s articles that were published on top websites like MarketingProfs (which has 600,000 global members including entire marketing organizations at the world’s largest corporations) and the CMO Council (which has 10,500+ members that control more than $450B in aggregated annual marketing expenditures and run complex, distributed marketing and sales operations worldwide). And, the LinkedIn nurturing campaign focused on issue based content that moves prospects forward.

So our client’s prospects, which included enterprise IT companies like Microsoft and Oracle saw that our client was a thought leader and they realized that they would not just get a video delivered to them. But, they will also get a plan and vision for using those videos in the most effective manner.

Let’s Talk Results….

• More than 500 sales, marketing and sales enablement leaders from companies like Act On Software, Compuware, ADP, Kapost, BMC, CA Technologies, Flexera and others are part of the firm’s LinkedIn group

• The firm had sales ready conversations with companies like Microsoft, DynamicWeb, Qubole, Dell, SDL, Serus, Netsertive, EMC, iSupport and many others

• The firm gained more than $100,000 in additional revenue from new clients from LinkedIn like Deltek, Oracle, Dynatrace, Seeburger, JourneySales, Axios Systems and others

• The firm gained $65,000 in additional revenue from their Buyers Journey Bundles that we created after the company saw demand for the buyer’s journey content they were creating.

Now, take a look at the content you’re sharing on LinkedIn and other social media platforms? Is your content driving demand and an unexpected urgency?

Maybe it’s time to rethink your social content strategy. To help you, click here to read additional LinkedIn marketing and social content case studies or click here to watch our webinar on how to influence buying decisions using LinkedIn and content.

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Des journalistes de La Presse n’ont pas été mis sur écoute, dit la police de Montréal

La Presse rapportait que le SPVM a demandé et obtenu un mandat pour placer sur écoute MM. Lagacé et Larouche. Le service de police ne se serait donc pas contenté d’obtenir le droit de fouiller les relevés téléphoniques et de géolocaliser les journalistes. Le quotidien ignore cependant si ce mandat d’écoute électronique a été utilisé.

Par voie de communiqué samedi, le directeur du SPVM a maintenu que seuls les policiers faisant l’objet d’une enquête ont été sur écoute électronique. Philippe Pichet a cependant précisé que toute personne ayant communiqué avec les policiers en question a pu être entendue dans le contexte de ces conversations. Le communiqué affublé du titre «Le SPVM dément les informations parues dans La Presse ce matin [samedi]» ne semble toutefois ni confirmer ni infirmer l’existence d’un mandat ciblant directement les journalistes.

M. Pichet, qui assure avoir agi en toute légalité, a dit vouloir demander à la cour une levée rapide des scellés sur les données concernant Patrick Lagacé, par souci de transparence.

Plus tôt samedi, le chef du Parti québécois a réclamé sa suspension, le temps que la lumière soit faite sur les deux cas de surveillance policière révélés dans la dernière semaine.

Jean-François Lisée a fait valoir que, dans la foulée des informations rapportées par La Presse, la suspension de M. Pichet, «l’un des acteurs principaux de ce qui est un manque de jugement, sinon un abus de pouvoir», devient d’autant plus nécessaire.

«À chaque jour qui passe et lorsqu’on en apprend davantage, on voit que l’une des personnes que la commission d’enquête voudra le plus voir et interroger, c’est bien le directeur Pichet et donc il faudrait l’extraire de son travail immédiatement pour ne pas entacher la preuve d’aucune façon […] Il faut prendre cette précaution», a-t-il lancé, en entrevue avec La Presse canadienne.

Le chef péquiste a précisé qu’il demandait déjà qu’un tel geste soit posé depuis le début de la semaine. Il n’exige toutefois pas la démission du directeur du SPVM pour l’instant.

Les problèmes du SPVM

«Les problèmes du SPVM sont plus profonds que la seule identité de la personne qui le dirige présentement», a soutenu pour sa part Patrick Lagacé.

«Il y a une culture qui fait en sorte que dans le haut commandement, on se moque de la liberté de presse, on méprise les journalistes», a-t-il dénoncé, en entrevue avec La Presse canadienne.

Selon la lecture d’une déclaration sous serment et d’une autorisation judiciaire obtenues par La Presse, la police aurait eu l’autorisation de mener des écoutes électroniques auprès de M. Lagacé, de même que de Vincent Larouche.

Leurs communications privées pouvaient être interceptées, aurait écrit le juge Marc Bisson, de la Cour du Québec, dans un mandat d’écoute signé en mai dernier et valide pour 60 jours – toujours selon les informations de La Presse.

La Presse ignore cependant si les deux journalistes ont finalement été écoutés. Ils n’ont pas reçu un avis de 90 jours les prévenant qu’ils avaient été écoutés, comme le prévoit la loi.

Cette semaine, le directeur du SPVM avait déclaré devant les médias qu’il n’avait jamais été question d’écoute électronique de Patrick Lagacé dans ce dossier.

Aux yeux du chroniqueur, il est impératif de mettre en lumière le fonctionnement du SPVM au-delà «des versions roses et édulcorées des communiqués de presse».

«La seule solution à laquelle je peux penser à mon niveau, c’est de continuer à faire du journalisme», a-t-il lancé.

De son côté, Jean-François Lisée affirme qu’il revient «légalement» au premier ministre, Philippe Couillard, de suspendre Philippe Pichet – et non au maire de Montréal, Denis Coderre.

Le ministre de la Sécurité publique Martin Coiteux a écrit sur sa page Facebook en fin d’après-midi qu’il était en contact avec le maire Coderre «depuis tôt [samedi] matin».

«Tout au long de la journée, nous avons échangé sur cette situation qui me préoccupe au plus haut point. Devant les nouveaux éléments rapportés par le journal La Presse ce matin, les autorités du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal et la Ville de Montréal doivent faire preuve de la plus grande transparence dans ce dossier et poser des gestes afin de restaurer la confiance des Montréalais envers leurs institutions», a-t-il soutenu.

Commission d’enquête

Quant à Denis Coderre, il n’a pas formulé de commentaires samedi.

Le gouvernement a annoncé jeudi qu’une commission d’enquête sera mandatée pour se pencher sur la surveillance policière des sources journalistiques, après que de nouveaux cas, concernant six journalistes, eurent été révélés.

La création éventuelle d’un comité d’experts formé d’un juge, d’un membre des forces policières et d’un représentant des médias avait déjà été lancée. Ce dernier recevra tous les pouvoirs relatifs à la loi sur les commissions d’enquête, qui incluent notamment le pouvoir de contraindre les témoins.

Me Christian Leblanc a été choisi à l’unanimité par une douzaine de chefs des principales salles de nouvelles du Québec pour siéger au comité.

M. Lisée a rappelé samedi qu’il avait demandé au premier ministre que les chefs des partis de l’opposition soient consultés sur la nature du mandat et sur la période qui sera couverte par la commission, se disant déçu de ne pas avoir encore été approché en ce sens.