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A trail of the money used in kickbacks in relation to the MUHC super hospital project has been made public.

According to the Gazette, the trail of the mysterious disappearance of over twenty-two million from SNC-Lavalin shows payments to former directors of the MUHC.

UPAC investigators uncovered a link between SNC-Lavalin executives and MUHC officials. The prognosis reveals a conspiracy to defraud the government and the hospital to pocket the profits.

The trail leads to Sierra Asset Management in the Bahamas and an unnamed company in Tunisia receiving kickbacks from the project.

An MP formerly of the NDP then later defecting to the Bloc Quebecois is urged to resign from his seat in the House of Commons.

According to CBC News, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is urging Claude Patry to resign as an MP after his defection to the separatist party. He is pushing for a by-election in the Jonquiére-Alma riding.

Patry’s defection comes on the heels of a critical vote on a B.Q. private members bill. If passed, the bill would repeal the Clarity Act drawn up thirteen years ago, which sets rules for future referendums on separation from Canada.

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Quebec Military parents assembled yesterday at a school north of Quebec City to fight Bill 14.

According to CBC News, the controversial Parti Quebecois Bill would prohibit Quebec military parents to send their children to English schools.

If the bill passes, Quebec military parents would lose their exemption reports the CBC.

Paul Cormier is a military parent  frustrated with Bill 14.

“Why put this added stress where it’s not needed?” said Cormier.

The meeting was held at a school near the Valcartier military base.

Egyptian opposition group National Salvation Front will boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections.

BBC News reports the decision comes days after President Mohammed Morsi announced that the elections would occur over a period of four days.

NSF spokesperson Sameh Ashour says that they came to the decision because of concerns the polls would not be free and fair.

The NSF wants an election law to guarantee fairness at the polls but critics say the law would favour Islamists.

Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto is changing the face of education in his country.

According to Al-Jazeera News, fe has in his sights a system of inheritance and seniority that has been the status quo for seven decades.

The reforms would move the control of the vast teachers union to the federal government away from the union led for 23 years by Elba Esther Gordillo.