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Montreal is aiming to match the pace of other urban cycling centers by forming a new committee designed to examine cycling issues across the island.

Such committees already exist in large Canadian centers like Toronto and Vancouver.

The cycling committee is comprised of city representatives, the transit authority, the police, as well as members of the cycling community.

India`s defense Minister has stated that he will do whatever it takes to protect the people from the small Chinese invasion.

According to the Hindu a large group from China`s People`s Liberation Army set up a tented post in eastern Ladakh.

Government sources believe that the Chinese army consists of fifty soldiers and that they arrived on April 15.

Government sources have also stated that India and China have been in touch in order to solve the issue.

A few hundred people continue to protest around government buildings in New Delhi, furious over claims that police acted unethically when dealing with the rape of a 5 year old girl.

According to Al-Jazeera News, the 100 protesters are furious that police allegedly ignored the victim’s parents when they said she was missing. 

Some reports say that police tried to offer the parents money to keep them quiet.

While the Indian public is demanding stricter laws, activists are saying that the government will need to focus on implementation to show that violence towards women and children will not be tolerated.

Thousands joined in the annual Montreal Earth Day march yesterday as the crowd made their way  from Place-des-Arts to its final destination at Place du Canada.

Quebec director for the David Suzuki Foundation, Karel Mayrand noted that a number of families and children came out in support. “They have this profound belief that the decisions they make today will actually build a future for their children,” he said.

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The fate of Bill 14 now rests in the hands of the Coalition Avenir du Quebec Party after hearings wrapped up on Thursday afternoon.

According to CBC News, the C.A.Q. has been put in this position because the Liberals are against the new law.

The hearings, which took place at the National Assembly, drew seventy-five citizens and other groups from across the province. They put in their two cents worth on their objection or acceptance of the Bill.

Bill 14’s purpose is to change a few amendments in the province’s language laws.

The land that brought the imaginary world of Middle Earth is now the land of very real rights for gay people.

According to Al-Jazeera news, New Zealand’s parliament is the thirteenth to legalize gay marriage and the first in the Asia Pacific.

Observers in a public gallery broke into the local love song Pokarekare Ana in Maori after the seventy seven to forty four vote in favour of the bill.

New Zealand has allowed civil unions since 2005.

The law will no doubt cause ripples in a region that has been slow to adopt gay marriage.

Some states in Australia have considered the move.

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Gilles Duceppe's pro-sovereignty views will not be an obstacle on a panel created to exam the impact of employment insurance reforms, proposed by the Conservatives.

A call is underway to assess a pipeline’s expansion plan.

The National Energy Board is taking applications from concerned citizens this week to evaluate Enbridge's 9-B pipeline project.

Alberta's oil-and-gas distributor wants to have it carry bitumen from oil-sands operations.

It also wants the line to reverse the current flow and increase capacity.

*Pipeline 9-B is 639 kilometers long and passes thru Montreal, Laval, Toronto and Hamilton.

Ontario residents living on land passing thru by the pipeline filed their applications so far.