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CSU Council met yesterday with several important topics on the agenda.

Right off the bat they voted in favour of a statement condemning the actions of the police on November 10^th at Mcgill. The CSU says riot police acted excessively when kicking students off campus. 

Council also voted to have a Special General Meeting next week to discuss allegations of corruption in the CSU. Chair of the Judicial Board Ceejay Desfosses and CSU President Lex Gill are accused in the appeal of being in collusion.

A mother accused of dumping her baby in a dumpster in Calgary last fall is now being charged with the murder of two other of her children.

After a length investigation, the mother was charged with attempted murder last week for dumping her child in a dumpster.

32 people have been arrested in a major drug bust in Quebec and New Brunswick. Federal, provincial and city police officers conducted searches in 25 municipalities. Large quantities of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine pills were seized along with a substantial amount of cash.

Police say the raids are part of an investigation into a drug trafficking ring involving a Montreal chapter of the Hell's Angels.

Negotiations between McGill support staff and the administration are back on. After calling talks off last week, the two groups will meet with a conciliator on Friday.

Members of the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association (MUNACA) have been on strike since September 1.

A Montreal teenager won the right to return to his English high school Monday after months of fighting. Sixteen-year-old Emilio Morales-Espinosa was forced to attend a French school after his father applied for permanent residency. 

Quebec language laws allow children of parents who have temporary residency to attend English school. The exception no longer applies once the family applies for permanent residency.The family emigrated from Mexico eleven years ago. The government reversed its decision in this case on humanitarian grounds.

Suite à l'échec de la commission visant à réduire l'endettement des États-Unis, Barack Obama s'est dit déçu et blâme les Républicains pour le résultat. Rappellons que cette commission était composé de 12 membres dont 6 républicains. 

Afin de remédier à la situation les démocrates ont proposé une hausse d'impôts pour les plus aisés alors que les Républicains ont proposé de couper dans certains programmes sociaux.

A study done by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care says that most Canadian women under 50 do not need regular mammograms. It also says that woman over 50 can go three years between their scans.

The death toll in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has risen over the weekend. 13 people were killed and hundreds injured following clashes between Egyptian authorities and demonstrators.

The European Union has strongly condemned the violence. Clashes have taken place in other cities as well.

The TV series Big Love may had its final episode, but real life polygamy is still on the air and on trial. The multi-wived faithful will soon learn whether their polygamous way of life is legal in Canada. A B.C. judge will rule Wednesday if Canada’s anti-polygamy laws are unconstitutional.

The polygamous commune in Bountiful, B.C. has lived in defiance of this hundred and twenty one year old law since 1946. The courts have failed to prosecute two of the community’s leaders thus far.

After 28 years of waiting, postal workers won in court yesterday. The supreme court of Canada ruled in their favor in a pay equity case. It could mean up to 250 million dollars in damages awarded to about six-thousand current and former workers.

A case like this might not be seen again for a while. In 2009 conservatives passed a measure that forces workers to deal with pay equity disputes through collective bargaining agreements. It was meant to keep pay equity disputes out of the courts.

Read by: Kevin Gascoigne

Stories by: Lindsey Briscoe, Shaun Malley, Brandon Judd, Cynthia Othieno and Sabrina Daniel

Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi