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A government spokesman said Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades faces a tough task to save the island’s economy.

The president was in Brussels discussing a crucial bailout with the European Union and the European Central Bank on Sunday.

According to AL-Jazeera News, Cyprus needs a 10-billion euro bailout to keep the government and the banks intact, but they have to raise 5.8 billion euros just to qualify for that package.

Montreal police are cracking down heavily on the student movement.

In a report by the Canadian University Press, SPVM officers who dealt with the protests stemming from tuition increases by the Liberal party last spring, put an end to the latest march on March 22nd in ten minutes.

Students are on the streets once again, to denounce the tuition increase of 70 dollars a year over the next five years put in place by the Parti Quebecois during the summit on higher education last month.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty revealed the new federal budget on Thursday.

There are no tax cuts and little new spending in this year’s budget, the CBC reported.

That’s because the government is fighting to eliminate an 18.7 billion dollar deficit by 2015.

Some of the highlights from the 2013 budget include of a new program called Canada Job Grants.

The graffiti left behind from last spring’s student movement at UQAM may be there to stay.

According to CBC News, the  university is considering the possibility of keeping the different tags that were scribbled  all over their walls.

Students at UQAM want the walls to remain as they are because they don’t see it as graffiti but a statement.

UQAM spokeswoman Jenny Desrochers said that the community is divided over preservation or cleaning over the drawings on corridor walls.

A witness at the Charbonneau Commission called Frank Zampino the most powerful man in Montreal.

Rosaire Sauriol made the statement during his second day testifying at the commission on Tuesday, the Montreal Gazette reported.

He’s accusing Zampino of holding more influence during his time at as chair of the city’s executive committee than former mayor Gérald Tremblay.

However commission investigators are questioning whether or not Sauriol himself played a larger role in shaping the system of collusion at city hall.

A group of First Nations leaders has come together to fight proposed new pipelines.

CBC News reports Native leaders from Canada and the U.S. gathered on Parliament Hill Wednesday to show opposition to the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines.