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Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies may not have won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film this year, but it won virtually every award it was nominated for at last night’s Jutra awards, Quebec’s equivalent of the Oscars. 

Incendies took home nine of the 10 awards it was up for, including Best Film and Best Director. Incendies’ Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin lost the Best Actress award to her co-star, Lubna Azabal, who also won the award at last week’s Genie awards.

Todays news was read by Jason Rouah and produced by Erica Bridgeman.

The stories were written by Samah Fadil, Michael Lemieux and Gareth Sloan

A father in Dollard Des Ormeaux won his right to play street hockey in court Thursday. David Sasson successfully contested a $75 fine handed to him for playing street hockey with his son on their street.

A neighbor complained about the game of street hockey to public security. When the security official showed up, Sasson refused to stop the game. The police were then called and Sasson was ticketed.

There is a bylaw against street hockey. However, Sasson points out the bylaw is in place for safety reasons. He says safety was evidently not in question on their quiet crescent street.

Click below to hear comments from CSU executive members Hussan Abdullahi, Heather Lucas, Adrien Severyns and Ramy Khoriaty as well as an interview with councillor Teresa Seminara. 

Students refusing to leave for a closed session caused Wednesday night’s CSU council meeting to be adjourned after less than two hours. When the topic of VP Sustainability and Promotions Morgan Pudwell’s recent resignation was reached, councillors voted to go into a closed session. They cited discussing HR issues as their reason. 

But the students in attendance refused to leave, stating they were worried about leaving Pudwell alone. Pudwell said she would not stay if the meeting went into a closed session. 

More student reprsentatives are coming out with complaints against Morgan Pudwell. In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, a group of councillors and senators from various student groups called Pudwell's priorities into question and her reasons for resigning as CSU VP Sustainability and Promotiones.

The letter focussed mainly on Pudwell's lack of leadership in the Women's caucus. It claims she didn't respond to emails in a timely matter and shirked her responsibilities. Pudwell had only organized one caucus meeting during her time in office.

To read the statement click here.

In Concordia news, The Link has uncovered a story of collusion between former CSU president Amine Dabchy and current student union executives.

According to Cinema Student Association President AJ West, Dabchy is secretly working with the CSU to run a slate in the upcoming elections.