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Ottawa’s decision to give the RCMP control over its spending lead to negotiations with British Columbia about keeping Mounties within the province.

Six months ago, B.C. politicians said they would rid the province of Mounties if Ottawa did not give it more control over local RCMP operations.

They threatened to instate their own police force if their demands were not met.

People are being urged by the Montreal police to avoid driving on Thursday. Demonstrators that are protesting tuition increases are expected to jam the streets. It would be recommended to take public transit in order to get around or to just go by foot.

Even if you don't use your car on Thursday, detours will most likely occur since the route some of the rally organizers have provided might change.

The march comes two days after the provincial budget has confirmed their plan to increase tuition. However, police are optimistic that this march will not have the same end results as the anti-police brutality march.

Read by: Greg Wilson

Stories by: Michael Lemieux, Joel Ashak, William D. Pelletier and Sarah Deshaies

Produced by: Jamie-Lee Gordon

According to an e-mail sent out to all Concordia students the University will be closed on Thursday March 22nd.

The decision comes due to the choice to use Concordia’s downtown campus as a meeting place for province wide tuition strikes on Thursday. It is expected that over 15000 students will be at Concordia on Thursday before marching towards Place Du Canada.

A group of Concordia students sold president Frederick Lowy’s condo on Tuesday morning.

The fake auction was held as a symbolic gesture to denounce mismanagement of public funds in universities.

In 2011, Concordia had promised Lowy a $1.4 million interest-free loan to keep his condo in Montreal and assure his return as interim president. He was called back to replace former president Judith Woodsworth, who was ousted with a $700,000 severance package.

Commuters in the South Shore were in for a surprise when they reached the Champlain bridge early this morning.

About 200 student protesters blocked the Montreal-bound side of the bridge in ongoing pressure tactics against tuition hikes.

According to CTV, cinder blocks were placed across the entrance ramp from Route 132 to the bridge. Surete de Quebec officers were present, monitoring the situation and preventing motorists from getting through.

Raymond Bachand, Quebec’s Minister of Finance, broke the tradition of Quebec finance ministers this Tuesday, by not wearing a new pair of shoes to their taxing ad spending plans. Instead, he wore new laces.

Bachand says he didn’t wear shoes because he doesn’t see the point in spending money on something he doesn’t need. In fact, he refuses to buy new shoes until next year when he hopes to return to a balanced budget.

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.

Read by Shaun Malley

Produced by Erica Bridgeman

Stories written by Tara Brockwell, Katie McGroarty, Judy-Ann Mitchell Turgeon and Danny Aubry