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Quebec private daycares are ready to employ pressure tactics to push the government a little.

Concordia University will have a Sexual Assault Resource Centre.  

In a report by The Link Newspaper, the university has announced plans to open the centre at the G-M building on the downtown campus.  

The centre's launch caps a two-year campaign initiated by the 21-10 Centre for Gender Advocacy, an independent group promoting gender equality and empowerment.  

Bianca Mugyenyi is the Programming and Campaigns Coordinator for the 21-10 Centre. 

She hopes that there will be as much student involvement as possible to help build a genuine culture of consent at Concordia. 

Montrealers rallied by the thousands Saturday afternoon to protest the Conservative government’s employment insurance reform.

According to CBC, the protesters marched from three different points in the city before gathering at Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles. 

There, they held several speeches before ending their demonstration. 

Protestors are concerned that changes will make it difficult to collect benefits, as well as the reforms effect on small fishing towns. Saying that communities could be torn apart by reforms and force residents to seek work elsewhere.

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St. Laurent Boulevard merchants want to be treated on a level basis as their sold Montreal and Downtown counterparts are.

The Coalition Avenir Québec has issued its demands to the Parti Quebecois.

The CAQ is refusing to support the PQ-proposed Bill 14 unless major changes are made to the legislation.

François Legault announced on Wednesday that his party will vote to send the bill for more study.

Bill 14 aims to toughen the province’s pre-existing language laws.

CBC reported that the CAQ is asking for significant amendments to certain parts of the bill.

Former governor-general Michaelle Jean voiced the need for all Canadians to embrace aboriginal issues as their own.

The Montreal Gazette reports Jean attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Wednesday in Montreal.

The goal of the sixty million dollar project is to document the systematic torment by generations of aboriginals forced into Canadian residential schools.

The TRC launched in 2009 when Jean was governor-general.

Jean will be an honorary witness at the Commission while some of the victims speak out publicly for the first time.

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Montreal city council voted Tuesday to keep the controversial protest bylaw P-6.

CBC news reports a group of people watching the debate on a video feed tried to enter city council chambers following the vote.

Unable to enter the group blocked entrance to the chambers with an impromptu sit-in.

Projet Montréal councilor Alex Norris put forward the motion to amend the bylaw that he calls unconstitutional.

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Hundreds of people protested against the city’s bylaw limiting protests outside city hall on Monday evening.

According to the Gazette, councillors were meeting at city hall for a monthly council meeting.

They’re expected to vote on whether to repeal the advance-notice and no-masks components of the P-6 bylaw.

Protesters denounced the bylaw, saying it is ‘‘criminalizing dissent.’’

Human Rights groups from Haiti want to hold the United Nations more accountable after a Canadian Police officer fled the country after allegedly sexually assaulting a Haitian woman last February.

According to CBC News, the man was among 80 other Canadian officers working for the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti.