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The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut last Friday has resurfaced new talks on tighter gun control in the U.S. and Canada.

According to CBC News, gun control advocates from both countries voiced their opinions on why action must be taken sooner rather than later. Quebec Premier Pauline Marois who was in New York at the time of the shooting expressed her opinion that gun control must be tightened in the U.S.

New reports reveal more serious financial problems at the McGill University Health Centre.

According to the Montreal Gazette, the MUHC expects to be at least 53 million dollars in deficit in 2013.

That’s more than double the amount disclosed at their annual general meeting on Dec. 3, which tallied the MUHC’s operating deficit at 29.3 million dollars.

On Tuesday night, the House of Commons narrowly approved a controversial private members’ bill introduced by Conservative MP Russ Hiebert.

The bill would require labour unions to disclose extensive financial information to the Canada Revenue Agency, which would then post the information online. Many Conservatives defended the bill, claiming that the unions’ tax-exempt status justifies greater transparency.

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Two unions are challenging a mining company in court, in light of foreign employment for a northern B.C. mining project.

According to the Globae & Mail, the challenged company, HD Mining, obtained temporary foreign worker permits for the project. The course case shows that HD Mining will employ 201 Chinese miners using the work permits. The case also reveals the long-term plans for the project.

Missing sixteen year old girl CJ Morningstar Fowler was found dead in Kamloops December fifth.

Fowler was a member of the Gitanmaax First Nation. Her death is suspected to be murder.

Wednesday her parents as well as the First Nation's leaders addressed the deepening issue of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.

According to newswire.ca, Aboriginal women in Canada are three point five times more likely to be subjects of violence.

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An animal rights organization secretly filmed the treatment of animals at a Manitoba hog-farm, and what they found was extremely disturbing, reports the Gazette.

In the video, employees can be seen swinging a piglet into a metal post to euthanize it, pulling on pigs’ ears and kicking them.

The organization, Mercy for Animals Canada, says their undercover investigator also found unsanitary conditions, including the presence of maggots and dirty water.

Mercy for Animals is asking Canadian grocery chains Loblaws, Metro, Sobey’s and Walmart Canada to phase out the use of gestation stalls and metal crates.

After the student strike, Quebec could now face a strike from ambulance technicians during the holidays.

The CBC reported that the CSN Labour Federation, representing 60% of the paramedics and ambulance technicians in Quebec, had filled a strike notice for the holiday period.

The technicians have been lacking a contract since 2010 and are asking for a better pension plan.

They also ask for a revision of the salary scale.

A renowned Tobacco insider is in Montreal this week to speak up for Tobacco victims.

Jeffrey Wigand is testifying at Quebec Supreme Court this week as part of Canada's largest class-action lawsuit between smoking victims and large tobacco companies.

In a report by CBC Montreal, Wigand testimony suggests that he was a former tobacco scientist at Brown and Williamson, a U-S based cigarette company in 1989.

The rules for a municipality losing its bilingual status have been softened.

According to the Gazette, Bill 14 gives the P.Q. the power to remove a city or town’s bilingual status if their non-French speaking population drops blow fifty per cent.

The clause was implanted in a revised Charter of the French Language introduced last week by the minority P.Q. government in power. It represents a hard-line stance in P.Q. policies and has raised concern among the Anglophone community.