NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25TH 2018

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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Volunteers conducted a homelessness survey across Montreal on Tuesday night.

According to CBC News, Montreal's second homelessness count will help policymakers decide where to invest funding.

Montreal's first homelessness survey was conducted in 2015 and determined that there were around 3000 homeless people in the city, 76 percent of which identified as male.

NATIONAL
By Jeremiah Ho

Alek Minassian, the man who used a van to attack pedestrians on Toronto’s Yonge street, will be charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 14 counts of attempted murder.

According to CBC News, police say that the majority of victims were women, but are still working to confirm the victims’ identities.

Police stated that Minassian’s motives are still unclear.

INTERNATIONAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

The remains of three Mexican film students kidnapped in March were discovered earlier this week.

According to BBC News, the students were in their 20s and were murdered by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel gang.

Around 200,000 people have been killed or disappeared ----- since the Mexican government declared war on organised crime in 2006.