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The new pay-your-own-way highway will be opened to traffic a month before an earlier target on May 20th.

It’s the highway 25 extension to highway 440, from Henri-Bourassa Boulevard East in the Rivieres-des-Prairies district of Montreal to the Duvernay district in Laval.

Despite the long protests, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh is still resistant to step down. This comes after accepting a plan where his resignation would keep him from being prosecuted. While other parliament parties agree with the plan, protesters want him to step down immediately.

The Sûreté du Québec is investigating the discovery of three bodies this weekend 
on a property in the community of Ste. Florence, east of Montreal.
Police are trying to determine whether the deaths were a murder-suicide.

The bodies of a grandfather and his grandson were found on Saturday. 
The grandfather was discovered in a wooded area off a rural road, while the grandson was found in an apartment at an isolated property nearby. And on Sunday morning, police found the grandmother in a ditch along Highway 132.

Investment Management students will soon see their tuition rise. Concordia's board of Governors voted Thursday to hike tuition in three of the Goodman Institute's programs. Those include one diploma program and two Masters'.

Students will see their tuition rise $2,000. They will now pay $18,000 a year.

The Board also approved their tentative operating budget. The budget projects a $530 million increase in revenue over three years. Just less than half of that will come from tuition increases. The majority of the rest will come from increased government funding.

With the federal election less than two weeks away, party leaders are continuing to squabble about the threat of a potential coalition government.

On Thursday, Conservative leader Stephen Harper tried to distance himself from the big “c” word.

In an interview with the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge, Harper again denied claims from the NDP and Bloc Quebecois that he had been willing to ally with the two parties to seize power from the Liberals in 2004. Harper also said that if the Liberals or the NDP won the May 2nd election, he wouldn’t try to re-take power through a coalition.

The wife of former Habs captain Vincent Damphousse pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of assaulting him with a weapon. Damphousse pressed the charges against his wife, Alanna Henderson, after being himself accused of 6 counts of assault against her.

The two filed the assault charges against each other. Their accusations stem from alleged incidents that occurred in March. According to Damphousse's lawyer, the charges are linked to divorce proceedings.

Neither Henderson nor Damphousse is speaking publicly about the allegations, but both are maintaining their innocence.

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The vote mob movement has reached Concordia University. Seventy students joined in a friendly protest at the Hall building terrace Tuesday afternoon.

Students at universities across Canada have staged vote mobs in recent weeks. The first one took place at the University of Guelph. The idea is to encourage political candidates to campaign on issues that are relevant to students. Political leaders are accused of not targeting the youth vote.

Only 37.4 per cent  of people aged 18 to 24 voted in the last federal election in 2008.

The closing of Decarie Blvd. is just the beginning of traffic woes for Montrealers.

Transport Quebec has blocked off a section of the Turcot Interchange for emergency repairs. The repairs were ordered after cracks were found in the lanes connecting highway 720 westbound to highway 20. Drivers heading to the West Island could face bumper to bumper traffic as only one lane will be open.

The repairs come at a time when the province is planning a complete face-lift of the Turcot.

Nigeria’s recently elected President Goodluck Jonathan will need some of that luck to tame riots in the country. Enraged youth in the north have torched churches and homes in protest of the election. Reports have indicated dozens of deaths in the unrest.

Nigeria is a country marked with decades of violence. But international observers have called the weekend election one of the fairest in decades for the West African nation. The recently elected President has urged an end to the violence. He called on rival politicians to calm their supporters.

It was a quieter weekend on the campaign trail as leaders were reeling off their televised debate performances earlier in the week. 

NDP leader Jack Layton’s popularity has increased since the debates. He is taking advantage of this by campaigning in Liberal strongholds in the Atlantic and Quebec. Layton claims that the NDP and Liberals’ platforms are nearly identical. The main difference being that the Liberals have been in power and have broken promises to Canadians. 

In international news, Japan announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis over  the crippled nuclear power plant under control. Tokyo Electric Power Company’s chairman said the plan included containing radiation within the reactor and eventually removing the nuclear fuel. The crisis would be under control within six to nine months, with the possibility of some residents returning home.