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Financial aid has been improved for Quebec Cegep and university students announced the P.Q. on Tuesday.

The Gazette reports that the aid will help around 160 000 post-secondary students.

The agreement calls for an extra $160 a year or $20 a month per student who request it.

Part-time students travelling to their cegep or university will get a break as well. They will get $728 in travel expenses.

In a campaign to make Philadelphia the most LGBT-friendly city in the world, mayor Michael Nutter signed legislation to future public restrooms gender neutral.

The move is to accommodate transgender people who feel uncomfortable going into public restrooms assigned to men and women. 

City Councilor Jim Kenney sponsored the bill. 

He spoke to N-B-C News Philadelphia on the difficult and awkward for transgender people to go into male and female restrooms.

The ruling Communist Party in Vietnam has appointed the first US-educated official to its executive committee. 

According to the Guardian, the move comes in an attempt to boost Vietnam’s image among investors in Europe and the United States.

Pressure is mounting to reform the economy, crippled by weak credit and 113 thousand business closures since 2011, since it began to stagnate after years of boom growth. 

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The Harper Government wants the National Research Council to reorient its efforts toward commercially valuable science rather than fundamental science.

The government says the NRC traditionally was a supporter of business, and will return to its roots developing practical applications for industry.