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Nearly thirty students felt what it was like to be homeless Monday night. They are participating in a national campaign called 5 Days for the Homeless. The Montreal chapter raised a record thirty three hundred dollars yesterday.

All the funds will be donated to local charity Dans La Rue. Three nights remain. Tuesday night CTV Montreal's Christine Long and former Montreal Canadien Georges Laraque will be sleeping over.

The first day of meetings with NHL General Managers focused on the issue of head shots in hockey.

The commissioner of the NHL has proposed a five-point plan to deal with the rise in concussions. One change is to modify the concussion protocol and have doctors look at injured players in a quiet area. GMs will also be looking at what makes a hit legal or illegal.

The league is under pressure after Canadians forward Max Pacioretty received a concussion in a game against Boston last week.

Verdun-born hockey hero Richard Martin died Sunday. His car collided in a one-car crash in Clarence, near a suburb of Buffalo New York where he lived.

The Buffalo News has reported that Martin suffered a heart attack while driving. 

Martin was a memeber of the legendary French Connection line for the Buffalo Sabres in the nineteen seventies. He starred for the Montreal Junior Canadiens prior to joining the Buffalo squad.

Picture from the Montreal Gazette

Une Question de Choix - a choice of question - was the theme of the protest that took place Saturday March twelfth in Montreal. Thousands of people came together to rally against the upcoming release of the Quebec Government’s budget.

A former female Canadian national weight-lifting champion has been arrested for prostitution. Rhonda Lee Quaresma was charged with misdemeanour prostitution in Florida this week. 

Quaresma was arrested after police set up a Sting operation. They contacted a woman going by the name “Mrs. Sparkle” and set up a meeting. At the scheduled place, Bonita Beach, police arrested Quaresma.

Quaresma was Bodybuilding.com’s personal trainer of the month in November 2010. Her court appearance is scheduled March 29th.

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The Conservative government may be in breach of privilege. House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken ruled that after two separate events there is enough evidence to indicate a prima facie breach of privilege.

The first motion complains that the government is refusing to produce information to the House regarding its anti-crime agenda. The other criticizes International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda for having misled a Commons committee. 

Liberal MP Scott Brison says these incidents disrespect Parliament and are an insult to Canadians.

Quebec launched its own model of WikiLeaks Wednesday morning. QuebecLeaks allows Quebecers to anonymously submit and access compromising documents online.

Access to Information Minister Pierre Moreau, however, says he’ll be keeping an eye on the whistle-blower site. Moreau claims that sites like QuebecLeaks are unnecessary because, according to him, Quebec is the most open province in Canada.

Concordia student and WikiLeaks mirror host Nadim Kobeissi disagrees. Kobeissi, who is also a security software developer, says pushing for better government transparency is in the public’s best interest.

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For years, researchers have unsuccessfully tried to tinker with ice cream to create a healthy version of the classic treat. Their low fat and low sugar concoctions may have been better for the body, but they failed to impress the most important judges… people’s taste buds.

Fear not, health-conscious ice cream aficionados, hope may be on the way. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are in the final taste-testing process of their quote “multifunctional ice cream.”