NEWS FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD 2016

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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

MTL Blog has removed their articles about the city’s hottest university students.

CBC News reported that the articles contained unauthorized pictures of students from Concordia and McGill University.

The students featured in these articles were harassed on social media and Concordia’s student newspaper The Concordian is now boycotting MTL Blog.

NATIONAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

The Shamattawa First Nations community in Manitoba has declared a state of emergency after a fire destroyed their only grocery store on Thursday.

According to CTV News, although nobody was injured, the fire also burned down the community’s band office, post office and radio station.

More than 1500 people are now in dire need of clean drinking water and food.
 

NATIONAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

The Thunder Bay police force has been put under review following several civilian complaints about how they investigate the deaths of Indigenous people.

CBC News wrote that the Office of the Independent Police Review Director has began this review nearly a year after the suspicious death of Stacey DeBungee.

The deaths being investigated are those of seven young First Nations citizens, five of which were found in the same river as DeBungee.
 

INTERNATIONAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

An overcrowded migrant boat capsized off the coast of Egypt on Thursday.

According to the National Post, the boat was carrying more than 350 people and although 163 migrants were rescued, more than 145 are missing and 51 bodies have been recovered.

Fishermen rushed onto the scene 5 hours before the coast guard arrived.