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Bill C-30 now has an estimated price tag.

According to the CBC, the online surveillance bill will cost at least $80 million to implement. 

The bill would update Canadian law when it comes to crimes committed online. 

Municipalities will be allowed to set up more photo radars. Bill fifty-seven will allow more of them in high risk areas like school zones and roadwork areas.

According to Al Jazeera, US Scientists have identified a new type of planet. It is a planet composed not of rock or gas, but of water.

The planet in question GJ1214b was discovered in 2009. It was initially believed to be covered mostly in water with a temperature far higher than our own.

Hubble telescope information helped validate that claim. Scientists say that the high pressure high temperature of the planet would likely create some interesting scenarios.

Polling for the Arts and Science Federation of Associations will be sometime in the next couple weeks.

According to ASFA President Alex Gordon, new polling dates will be announced as soon as possible, and will likely be two or three weeks after reading week. 

ASFA chose to redo polling after too many violations were committed in the first two days of polling. The biggest error being that students with a minor in Arts and Science could not vote.

New research published in the journal Nature shows that Canada's oil-sands are not as harmful to the climate when compared to other energy sources.

According to the Globe and Mail, the news comes at a crucial time for Canada, who plans to start a trade war with the European Union if they do not vote down a new rule that will penalize countries with raw oil-sands.

Canadian farms of almost all kinds experienced a huge increase in profits in 2011, and according to Agriculture Canada, the increase will continue for the next decade.

According to the Canadian Press, net cash income for 2011 was almost $12 billion – 24 percent higher than it was in 2010. The increase reflected in every sector of farming except cattle producers, who are experiencing rising costs.