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Students at Concordia University are asking the administration to help them make up lost courses.

Striking students held a press conference on Wednesday calling on the university's administration to reschedule missed classes that have been affected by the province-wide strike against raised tuition fees.

Early Thursday Morning around two hundred striking students blocked the entrances to Valleyield College. The action caused the CEGEP to cancel classes for the day.

Wednesday also had demonstrations begin begin early in the morning. At about 7 am a group of a few dozen masked protesters blocked the entrance to the National Bank tower. Police rushed the scene and cleared the protesters with pepper spray. One 23 year old was arrested.

According to CNN Rick Santorum dropped out of the Republican candidacy race Tuesday.

The move clears the way for long-time favourite Mitt Romney to win.

Apparently the decision comes amidst family health problems. Although it was unlikely Santorum would have been able to win enough delegates to overcome Romney anyways. 

Laurent Proulx, a University de Laval student, had asked the Court for the entirety of the picketing in front of his University to stop.

On April 4, the Superior Court of Quebec agreed only to grant Proulx with the right to assist his anthropology class.

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Fidel Castro posted a web message admonishing Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The former leader of the communist regime wrote an editorial on Cuba’s government website called Stephen Harper’s Illusions.

According to the Canadian Press Castro criticized Harper for destroying Canada’s environment by extracting oil to bow down to U.S. needs.  He also condemned Canadian mining companies for backing harmful projects in Latin America affecting millions.

According to CBC, A 40-year-old woman from Montreal has been allegedly charged with aggravated harassment for stalking actor Alec Baldwin

Genevieve Sabourin, an actor, was arrested on Sunday in New York after she allegedly traveled from Quebec to New York to in attempts to meet up with Baldwin.