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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.

Kanestake residents in Oka joined in a Canada-wide protest Saturday against the expansion of the oilsands and the pipelines bringing oil east from Alberta.

According to the Gazette, Kanesatake Mohawks are opposed to the oilsands projects in Alberta due to the detrimental effects to First Nations communities.

They are also against the direction of Enbridge’s 9B pipeline through Mohawk territory.

Three busses that left Montreal Saturday morning for the protest carried representatives of Québec solidaire, prominent activist Ellen Gabriel and members of the Idle No More movement.

The Ontario government’s recently created Ring of Fire development corporation

Vancouver has introduced a pilot program designed to turn cigarette waste into profits.

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Four Montrealers are amongst the hundreds of thousands missing after Typhoon Haiyan passed through the Philippines late on Friday.

As reported by the Montreal Gazette on Sunday, four Filipino nationals living in the Cote-Des-Neiges district are feared missing after what has been described as the most powerful natural disaster on record hit the Asian island nation.

The four, all in their 60's made the trip to the village where they were born to begin building a a chapel last month. Their families have tried to get in contact with them, but to no avail.