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The city is considering allowing food vendors back on the streets. Jacques-Alain Lavallée, a spokesman for Ville-Marie borough, says the city is weighing the pros and cons carefully. If given a green a light we would see the vendors hit the streets in the summer. The street meet carts would only by allowed to operate in designated areas. 

In Fukushima Japan engineers were able to stop radioactive water from leaking into the sea. A spokesperson for Tokyo Electric Power says the leaks were stopped after they injected a mixture of liquid rock and hardening agent.

However, due to a lack of storage space Tokyo Electric says they will still have to pump contaminated water into the sea. The water has low levels of radiation and will continue to be released until Friday.

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Prices of Tim Horton's coffee may be going up, but will that deter its most adamant supporters?

The price of your Tim Horton’s Joe will go up slightly next week. Tim Horton’s announced that it will raise prices, but did not say by how much.

Over the years, the Canadian coffee giant has raised prices slightly to keep up with the rising price of sugar. An example: Timbits used to be 17cents and are now 19.

Results of last month’s Haiti presidential runoff show that carnival musician Michel Martelly has the upper hand over former first lady Mirlande Manigat. According to a spokesman for Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council, Martelly took sixty-seven percent of the vote while Manigat received thirty-one percent.The preliminary results were delayed by a week due to fraud problems.

With less than a month before Canadians head to the polls, party leaders were on the campaign trail this weekend. Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was in Ottawa on Sunday. He unveiled his party’s $8 billion plan for Canadian families. The plan includes a $1.2 billion pledge for provinces to create new child care spaces. But Finance Minister Jim Flaherty believes the Liberals’ promises are not affordable. 

US President Barack Obama announced his bid for re-election this morning on his website. Joe Biden will be running along side Obama for the office of Vice President. Using his new slogan "It begins with us", Obama told his supporters that the campaign had started. This means that the race for contributions is on.

Erick Ung, candidate for Independant councillor on YOUR Concordia, encourages students to vote on the last days of polls. Ung won his position.

To everyone’s relief, a missing twenty inch poisonous snake that went missing from a New York city zoo has been found.

The Egyptian Cobra was found hiding in the holding areas of the zoo’s reptile enclosure. Officials managed to lure the snake out with wood shavings.

The snake gained notoriety when an anonymous Twitter account @BronxZoosCobra began posting shortly after the snake went missing.

The snake tweets focused on the fears of local New Yorkers. One tweet went “City may not sleep, but I'm ready to. Ooh a chimney! I bet you bragged to your friends about having a working fireplace in NYC. Hi roomie."

The results are in: Your Concordia has won the Concordia Student Union elections. CEO Oliver Cohen sent out the unofficial results early Friday morning. The results were close, with the Your Concordia executive winning by just under three-hundred-and-fifty votes. 

Your Concordia took nearly a clean sweep of councilors, Board of Governors members and senate representatives. JMSB councilors will be made up of Action candidates and ENCS will be split. There will also be only one Action member on senate.

The Green Party of Canada is challenging a decision not to include Elizabeth May in the upcoming broadcasted leaders’ debates. On Tuesday, a consortium of broadcasters decided to exclude May from the April 12 and 14 debates. That consortium includes CBC and Radio-Canada. The NDP, Conservatives, Liberals, and the Bloc Quebecois were invited. 

The party submitted a complaint to the Federal Court of Appeal. They’re asking that the court review the regulations that say the broadcasters do not have to include every party leader.