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Concordia University will be closed this Thursday for security concerns. At least 15 000 students, families and faculty are expected to attend Thursday's provide-wide demonstration against tuition hikes. Demonstrators will begin outside of Concordia's downtown campus and march towards Place du Canada. Mobilization is set to begin at 10:30 am. About 250 000 students are currently on strike across the province.

In this installment of the CJLO News 2012/2013 CSU Elections interview series, Audrey Folliot discusses ways to make Loyola as important a campus as SGW with A Better Concordia candidate Stefan Faina and Concordia Could Be candidate Jonathan Braziller. Both have great ideas for cultural events that would bring people from both campuses together at Loyola. Listen below:

A mob of drunken students celebrating St. Patrick’s Day fuelled a massive street fire in the east end of London, Ontario last Saturday night.

According to the Globe and Mail, the crowd of 1000 people were not only constantly adding fuel to the fire; they were also attacking any officer getting in their way.

Police Constable Krissy Belanger says rioters were throwing bricks, beer bottles and tires to any police officer or firefighter who tried to intercept them.

It was already past 4 am when the crowd finally dispersed.

The 188’s St. Patrick’s day Parade took place Sunday afternoon in Montreal.

But according to CTV Montreal, this time, the parade took place in the hottest-ever March weather, as the temperature hit a maximum of 22 degrees.

The warmest parade to date was in 2010, when temperature had hit 14 degrees.

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Pittsburgh Penguins Captain Sidney Crosby returned to the ice to play against the New York Rangers last night.

According to the Globe and Mail Crosby missed forty games due to issues regarding concussion related symptoms.

The concussion related symptoms are the result of an injury he obtained in January 2011.

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Two former CSU councillors go head to head in this year's 2012/2013 CSU Elections Interview series. Joel Balsam discusses Concordia's dwindling reputation and plans for future student mobilization with candidates Simon-Pierre Lauzon (A Better Concordia) and Cameron Monagle (Concordia Could Be). Listen below!

The annual Anti-Police Brutality Demonstration is scheduled for Thursday at 5pm. According to CTV, police say they’re gearing up for the protest with mace, chemical deterrents such as tear gas, and stun grenades. Montreal’s chief inspector warned police will react the moment protestors break the law.

Only two out of the last sixteen protests have been peaceful.  Last year, more than two-hundred people were arrested.

The chief inspector said that he has seen protestors throw rocks and blocks of ice and has seen sticks with nails taped to them.

The Concordia Student Union strike officially starts today. It will last from the fifteenth until the twenty-second of March.

 The dates were initially set from the twenty-second until the twenty-ninth but were changed during the general assembly. The dates were changed in order to present a more timely opposition to the provincial budget.

There will be no temporary reinstatement for the two Concordia Student Union candidates disqualified last week.

The CSU Judicial Board denied the request yesterday morning. A Better Concordia presidential candidates Schubert Laforest and VP academics and clubs Lucia Gallardo will likely have to wait until the final decision appears next Friday.

The Judicial Board claimed there was not enough evidence proving the disqualifications were unjustified.

Wondering who to vote for in the 2012/2013 CSU Elections? CJLO News has you covered with an interview series featuring every one of the executive candidates.

In today’s interview series, VP Sustainability candidates Andrew Roberts and Iain Meyer-Macaulay announce their plans to make Concordia more sustainable.

Listen to the interviews below!