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Protesters have set up shop on Wall Street in downtown Manhattan. And they don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.

Hundreds of people are protesting the financial sector’s monopoly over the wealth in the United States. They want a more transparent and accountable financial system.

The protest has been taking since September seventeenth.

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The Georgian Supreme Court has rejected Troy Davis’ final appeal to get off death row. He is set to face lethal injection Wednesday night. 

Davis was sentenced in 1991 for killing police officer Mark MacPhail. But many of the witnesses have changed their testimony or recanted since then. 

An extreme lack of evidence has caused many worldwide to oppose the ruling. Pope Benedict and former US President Jimmy Carter are among those that insist that he is innocent. 

 More than five hundred dogs have been seized in what could be the largest animal cruelty case in Quebec’s history.

 The dogs were found in a puppy farm in southwestern Quebec. They had been living in poor conditions with many suffering from skin and respiratory problems. The dogs have been placed in the care of Humane Society International, with several hundred already at a treatment centre.

While the question of when and not if Federal Deputy Leader of the NDP Thomas Mulcair will run for party leadership floats around, he took the time to stop by and convince some Concordia students that the NDP is still a contender even after Jack Layton’s gone.

Joel Balsam reports:

When Thomas Mulcair walked into the small conference hall at the Maritime Hotel in downtown Montreal Friday, he took the time to shake the hands of everyone in the room.

He asked them all their names, but really, he wants them to know his.

A frosh event created a stir Thursday as students from Université de Montréal were filmed in blackface while dressed in the colours of the Jamaican flag. They chanted about marijuana and Rastafarianism. Playing up well-known stereotypes of the Central-American nation.

The costumes were in honour of the annual athletic week to promote student involvement in sports. But one Mcgill law student was deeply offended. He is considering filing a human rights complaint.

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What is your show name?
Burnt Offerings

What genre?
The metal-est!

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Probably 4 or 5 years now.

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 Air Canada flight attendants voted almost unanimously in favour of a strike. The employees could walk out as soon as September 21st.

Jeff Taylor is president of the flight attendants' union. He said union members are unsatisfied after ten years of making sacrifices to help the airline's financial situation.

Taylor said members would prefer to reach an agreement with Air Canada, but they are prepared to strike if necessary. The union overwhelmingly rejected a tentative deal with the airline in late August.

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A woman is in the hospital after being struck by a car in Côte St. Luc Sunday morning.

The thirty-five-year-old is in a stable condition. She was jogging with other runners and the car swerved off the road.

One of the car’s side mirrors struck her, and she hit her head on the ground too.

The driver sped off after the accident, but a witness got a detailed description of the car. The driver appears to be a grey-haired man in his fifties.