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Student groups are protesting as Concordia plans to resign its exclusive beverage contract with PepsiCo Friday. This is according to Sustainable Concordia and the Concordia Student Union. The protest will take place at one-thirty Wednesday outside of the John Molson building.The alleged contract will continue to give Pepsi exclusive rights over selling drinks on campus. Pepsi has been Concordia’s only drink supplier for the past thirteen years.

Omar Khadr has pled guilty to war crimes charges at Guantanamo Bay Monday. This means he admits to throwing the grenade that killed a U.S. medic in Afghanistan in 2002. By pleading guilty, he is also avoiding a possible life-sentence. His plea agreement has not yet been disclosed. It is known that he will be able to transfer to a Canadian prison within one year. 

The much awaited dump of some 390,000 documents relating to the Iraq war has finally taken place and not surprisingly a grim picture emerges from this war of choice that the US and their "coalition of the willing" took part in.

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