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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, will meet on Friday, but they won’t be holding a press conference.

In a report by The Gazette, the P.M.’s restrictions on question and answer sessions has prompted Marois to decline the request for a press conference.

According to Marois’s entourage, they were told to follow Ottawa’s system of taking questions from four journalists.

The custom of taking questions from a limited number of journalists with their names agreed upon in advance has been standard since Harper first took office in 2006.

A movement to prevent budget cuts to medical research in Quebec has begun.

Research centre representatives held a news conference yesterday to announce a campaign against the Parti-Quebecois' decision to cut 10-million-dollars in funding.

A CBC News report calls the campaign “Je Suis Michèle," named after ovarian cancer patient Michèle St-Pierre.

It was announced that Ontario’s Social Assistance system will undergo a major reform on Wednesday.

According to The Globe and Mail, Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne plans on making structural changes and raising welfare rates.

She wants to simplify the system and make it easier to navigate for those benefiting from it.

Wynne told the paper that this social issue is a priority for her and her party.

She will also work with the opposition and Toronto mayor Rob Ford on the project.

Wynne won the Liberal leadership race last weekend, making this her first concrete policy in her new position.

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Students in Arizona will be required to express love of country under God if bills introduced by two lawmakers are passed, reports Huffington Post.

Republican state representative Bob Thorpe’s proposal would require all high school seniors to “support and defend” the U.S. Constitution under oath.

Republican state representative Steve Smith’s proposal would require all 1^st to 12^th graders in public school to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Currently the bill does not exempt atheist students or students of other faiths.