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The latest round of elections in Italy has resulted in a stalemate.

According to BBC News, no party gained a majority in the senate after the final day of voting concluded on Monday.

The stalemate between the centre-left and the centre-right blocs could spurn fresh elections. Former P.M. Silvio Berlusconi says that is the wrong option for the country, and forming an alliance is the right one.

Markets around the world reacted to the results. Italian markets dropped sharply and others worldwide opened down.

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois came into the conference on Higher Education being well aware that an agreement would not be met right away.

According to the Gazette Marois invited the input and opinions of student groups and union leaders within the conference.

Marois stated that one of the goals she brought up within the conference was to make Higher Education more accessible throughout Quebec.

The Higher Education Minister brought up how pleased he was with how well the conference progressed.

He stated that we`ve come a long way since last spring during the time student protests were occuring.

Several groups laid out their plan for the summit on higher education, which gets going on Monday.

According to CBC News, fifteen groups invited to the summit to present ideas on how to solve long standing problems to higher education.

The FEUQ and the P.Q.'s youth wing told CBC on Sunday, that they will try to find solutions to counter student debt.

There are also groups criticizing the P.Q. for the way it organized the meetings. They said the summit will be too short to have constructive debates on the issues plaguing higher education.

As the Charbonneau Commission continues to shed light on corruption in the construction industry, the city is looking to change the way it goes about handling public construction contracts.

According to the Gazaette, back in November, the borough council set to find out if it would be more cost-effective to have municipal blue-collar workers do the jobs instead of going to private contractors.

The Ontario government is in trouble, after revealing dozens of documents that it had instead "did not exist," concerning cancelled gas plants.

According to CBC, the Liberals released numerous documents in September, telling the legislature that all the documents had been released, however, an additional 20 000 pages were found a month later.

The latest batch of documents, as reported by the Canadian Press, adds about 600 more pages.

Ontario Power Plant Executives spoke to the media Thursday afternoon to try to explain the unaccounted documents.

Password-protecting your cell phone could be a stronger defence against prying eyes than you thought.

Ontario’s Court of Appeal recently ruled that police should obtain a search warrant to look through an arrested person’s cell phone upon – but only if the phone is password protected or locked.

However unlocked cell phones are fair game, according to the courts.