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This week's Summit on Higher Education initially proposed a virtual "freeze" on tuition fee hikes.

 But upon finding out it was a three percent hike, student groups responded with disappointment.

The Montreal Media Co-op reports that the Quebec government proposed a kind of price adjustment - called an Indexation - to reflect the province's current social and economic status. 

This indexation called for a three percent annual increase in tuition fees, and a three percent increase cap on “ancillary fees”.

A group in Victoria, British Columbia is calling for a coroner’s inquest following a spike in homeless deaths in the city.

Thirty people living on the city’s streets have died in the last four months.

That’s triple the number of deaths compared to last year, according to the University of Victoria’s Poverty Law Club.

The anti-poverty group hopes an inquest will find solutions to prevent future poverty-related deaths in Victoria.

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The Parti Quebecois’ Education Summit ended Tuesday without a consensus. 

According to CBC News, the government outlined their plan to increase tuition by three per cent annually, which works out to about 70$ a year.

Premier Pauline Marois stated her content with the two-day summit and said it had a positive impact.

With the summit wrapped up and the decision declared final, students took to the streets of Montreal yesterday afternoon. 

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The latest round of elections in Italy has resulted in a stalemate.

According to BBC News, no party gained a majority in the senate after the final day of voting concluded on Monday.

The stalemate between the centre-left and the centre-right blocs could spurn fresh elections. Former P.M. Silvio Berlusconi says that is the wrong option for the country, and forming an alliance is the right one.

Markets around the world reacted to the results. Italian markets dropped sharply and others worldwide opened down.

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois came into the conference on Higher Education being well aware that an agreement would not be met right away.

According to the Gazette Marois invited the input and opinions of student groups and union leaders within the conference.

Marois stated that one of the goals she brought up within the conference was to make Higher Education more accessible throughout Quebec.

The Higher Education Minister brought up how pleased he was with how well the conference progressed.

He stated that we`ve come a long way since last spring during the time student protests were occuring.

Several groups laid out their plan for the summit on higher education, which gets going on Monday.

According to CBC News, fifteen groups invited to the summit to present ideas on how to solve long standing problems to higher education.

The FEUQ and the P.Q.'s youth wing told CBC on Sunday, that they will try to find solutions to counter student debt.

There are also groups criticizing the P.Q. for the way it organized the meetings. They said the summit will be too short to have constructive debates on the issues plaguing higher education.

As the Charbonneau Commission continues to shed light on corruption in the construction industry, the city is looking to change the way it goes about handling public construction contracts.

According to the Gazaette, back in November, the borough council set to find out if it would be more cost-effective to have municipal blue-collar workers do the jobs instead of going to private contractors.

The Ontario government is in trouble, after revealing dozens of documents that it had instead "did not exist," concerning cancelled gas plants.

According to CBC, the Liberals released numerous documents in September, telling the legislature that all the documents had been released, however, an additional 20 000 pages were found a month later.

The latest batch of documents, as reported by the Canadian Press, adds about 600 more pages.

Ontario Power Plant Executives spoke to the media Thursday afternoon to try to explain the unaccounted documents.

Password-protecting your cell phone could be a stronger defence against prying eyes than you thought.

Ontario’s Court of Appeal recently ruled that police should obtain a search warrant to look through an arrested person’s cell phone upon – but only if the phone is password protected or locked.

However unlocked cell phones are fair game, according to the courts.

In Greece, more than 60-thousand people took to the streets to protest against the continuing austerity policies the government is making to pay its bills.

Al Jazeera reports that the protesters went on a 24-hour strike on Wednesday.

They represent Greece's two biggest labour unions and account for that country's 2-point-5 million workers.   

The protesters marched to parliament beating drums, blowing whistles and calling the politicians robbers.