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An animal rights organization secretly filmed the treatment of animals at a Manitoba hog-farm, and what they found was extremely disturbing, reports the Gazette.

In the video, employees can be seen swinging a piglet into a metal post to euthanize it, pulling on pigs’ ears and kicking them.

The organization, Mercy for Animals Canada, says their undercover investigator also found unsanitary conditions, including the presence of maggots and dirty water.

Mercy for Animals is asking Canadian grocery chains Loblaws, Metro, Sobey’s and Walmart Canada to phase out the use of gestation stalls and metal crates.

After the student strike, Quebec could now face a strike from ambulance technicians during the holidays.

The CBC reported that the CSN Labour Federation, representing 60% of the paramedics and ambulance technicians in Quebec, had filled a strike notice for the holiday period.

The technicians have been lacking a contract since 2010 and are asking for a better pension plan.

They also ask for a revision of the salary scale.

A renowned Tobacco insider is in Montreal this week to speak up for Tobacco victims.

Jeffrey Wigand is testifying at Quebec Supreme Court this week as part of Canada's largest class-action lawsuit between smoking victims and large tobacco companies.

In a report by CBC Montreal, Wigand testimony suggests that he was a former tobacco scientist at Brown and Williamson, a U-S based cigarette company in 1989.

The rules for a municipality losing its bilingual status have been softened.

According to the Gazette, Bill 14 gives the P.Q. the power to remove a city or town’s bilingual status if their non-French speaking population drops blow fifty per cent.

The clause was implanted in a revised Charter of the French Language introduced last week by the minority P.Q. government in power. It represents a hard-line stance in P.Q. policies and has raised concern among the Anglophone community.

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The ambitious Laval arena project may have difficult days ahead.

According to CBC News, the Place Bell project is being investigated for cost-overruns. The original cost of the project was just over $92 million dollars. It has since ballooned to $150 million dollars.

Based on the new price tag, Laval taxpayers will to contribute $73 million bucks instead of 30.

Two auditors are being summoned by Quebec Municipal Affairs Minister, Sylvain Gaudreault to uncover any irregularities with the project.

Gaudreault asked the report be finalized by next week at the latest.

Tensions in Egypt do not seem due to simmer any time soon.

That’s when opposition leaders rejected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s plan to vote on a new constitution.

Morsi conceded his previous decree that gave him more power than his predecessor Hosni Mubarek.

Opposition party the National Salvation Front told the BBC that the new constitution does not represent the Egyptian people.

Demonstrations seem destined to continue against Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will get you five and a half years in jail.

Ontario’s Court of Appeal has reinforced the laws that protect women from harassment, after upholding a sentence of five and a half years.

According to the globe and mail, Patrick James Doherty, who sent harassing phone calls and letters to a women he had recently met, argued that because he did not physically assault the woman, he should receive a lesser sentence.

The court rejected his appeal and his reasoning.

Increased tensions are taking over in Cairo.

According to Al Jazeera, as of Thursday morning, approximately 700 people have been injured and more than 6 people have been killed due to conflict in Cairo.

The conflict is occurring outside the presidential palace where people gathered in protest of President Mohamed Morsi.

Supporters of the president were also present. 5 military tanks were set up outside the palace as a means to secure the palace.

According to the Freedom and Justice Party, many of the people killed in the conflict were members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A new law introduced by the minority P.Q. government adds new restrictions to help maintain the French language.

According to CBC News, the proposed amendments will modify Bill 101 and the province’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms already in effect.

Businesses with 26 employees or more will be required to conduct their work, meetings and training in French. They will be obligated to serve customers in French.

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