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A United Nations independent expert is calling on the Canadian government to have meaningful dialogue with aboriginal leaders, reports the UN News Centre.

Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples James Anaya is pleased with the planned meeting set for January eleven.

As of November 26 million people in the European Union are unemployed, with nearly a full percentage increase from last year of the continent’s jobless rate at 10.7 percent.

Quebec`s health ministry will commence negotiations with the union of striking ambulance workers sometime within the week.

According to CBC News Quebec`s Health Minister stated that his ministry and the CSN labour federation will meet on Wednesday.

He also stated that agreements may not be made between the ministry and the union on Wednesday because of the union`s vast degree of demands.

Ambulance workers such as technicians and paramedics have been fighting to organize more meetings for negotiations.

Some of the union`s demands are to have their pay scale increased as well as to better their pension plans.

NHL players are flocking back to their teams after an agreement was reached to end the lockout.

According to CBC News, the NHL and NHLPA reached an agreement on an eight year collective bargaining with an option for a further two years early Sunday morning.

The league has yet to announce whether the shortened season will run 48 or 50 games. The Stanley Cup playoffs will take this season to a late June finish.

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The MUHC has some explaining to do.

According to the Gazette, the growing deficit for the McGill University Health Centre's fiscal year reached $115 million dollars after an irregular payment schedule was uncovered.

According to a government-commissioned report, employees who worked for over six hundred thousand hours for the McGill University Health Centre were actually paid for almost nine hundred thousand hours.

One of Egypt’s top election officials has resigned in the midst of Egypt’s ongoing constitutional referendum.

In a letter to Egypt’s election committee, which was also printed in several Egyptian newspapers, Zaghloul el-Balshi attributed his resignation to a “sudden health crisis.” El-Balshi’s announcement followed the first round of voting on Egypt’s proposed constitution.

According to Al-Jazeera, some critics are claiming that the resignation was prompted by allegations of irregularities.

The 401 was blocked Wednesday by over one thousand people as part of the Idle No More movement. This is one of many highway blocks over the past few weeks from the movement.

According to Ifpress.com, the movement has been rumbling for years, but what was the last straw was the omnibus budject bill C-45 which contains changes to the Indian act that some Idle No More organizers, as well as people in indigenous communities, have called “discriminatory and racist”.

US President Barrack Obama announced that he intends to implement harsher gun laws in the coming year.

According to CBC News, the president made the announcement following the school shooting last week in Connecticut that claimed 26 lives.

Obama is demanding concrete proposals from congress and hoping to make progress early next year.

According to the CBC, three people were arrested and two have been charged in connection to the $18-million maple syrup theft this past summer.

The thieves made off with 9,600 barrels or 2.7 million kilos of maple syrup from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blanford.

It was originally estimated that the thieves stole about $30-million dollars’ worth of syrup, but later verification revealed fewer barrels were actually missing.

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A spectacular pileup on a Quebec highway caused the closure of the road for hours.