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The métro’s yellow line will be shut down in 2014 for half of the year’s weekends for preventative repairs.

According to the Gazette, chief executive of the STM Carl Desrosiers says the 10 million dollar repair job is not an emergency.

The 25 weekends of spring and fall work will include repairs on the tunnel's concrete roof, sealing cracks and dealing with water infiltration.

Desrosiers added that if there is an emergency on the Champlain Bridge, work on the tunnel will be placed on hold and full weekend service will be restored to help handle the traffic.

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A Canadian citizen was arrested this week and charged with allegedly trying to pass along classified ship secrets to the Chinese government.

According to CBC, at a news conference on Sunday in Toronto, the RCMP say they arrested 53-year-old Qing Quentin Huang over the weekend. 

Huang was then charged under the Security of Information Act for allegedly trying to supply classified information related to Canada's shipbuilding strategy to China.

The information included plans for patrol ships, naval support vessels, science research vessels and ice breakers.

Thousands of protestors continue to gather around Thailand's Interior Ministry in Bangkok.
 

Concordia's Centre for Gender Advocacy claims that bills 35 and 71 of the Quebec Civil code are discriminatory against trans individuals. The centre plans on challenging the law in court.

According to the Link, the bill states that is someone wants to legally change their gender on government documents, they must be 18, a Canadian citizen and undergo sex reassignment surgery.

According to Gabrielle Bouchard, Advocacy Coordinator at the Centre, this forces people who want to legally change their gender to undergo forced sterilization.

The Current suicide rate of trans individuals, according to Bouchard, is 40 per cent.

Québec Solidaire health critic Amir Khadir has suggested that CLSC’s stay open all week, twenty-four hours a day.

According to the Gazette, Khadir made the suggestion Saturday during a campaign for Québec solidaire candidate Édith Laperle as a way of reinforcing the public health-care system.

A physician by profession, Khadir said that CLSCs are currently being under-utilized, criticising private clinics as ‘parasites of the public system’ for their trend in recent years.

Laperle also said that she wants CLSC’s to return to their original mission of front-line care.

She pledged that if elected, she would extend the operating hours of the CLSC in Cote des Nieges as a pilot project. 

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Former mayor of Montreal Gerald Tremblay`s Union Montreal political party no longer exists.

According to the Gazette, Elections Quebec stated that Union Montreal`s failure to elect a new leader within their given time limit was one of the reasons for pulling the plug on them.

It was in November 2012 when Union Montreal started to crumble due to accusations of illegal fundraising.

Union Montreal wants to continue to exist in order to continue to testify against accusations made towards them within the Charbonneau commission.

Elections Quebec spokesperson Carl Charest stated that Union Montreal has the option to go to court to challenge the decision Elections Quebec made upon them.