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Even the almighty Facebook is susceptible to viruses. The worldwide social networking site was attacked by spam over the past few days.

Thousands of users complained of seeing pornography on their newsfeeds. Facebook has an idea of who is responsible, and its not the hacktivist group Anonymous.

Negotiations between the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association and senior administration have reached a stalemate.

During a Friday night meeting, the conciliator postponed talks after stating that the two groups’ views on wages were too extreme from each other.

Union members want a three percent wage increase, while the administration is only willing to raise it by 1.2 percent.

The controversial Keystone XL pipeline is moving to avoid an environmentally sensitive part of Nebraska.

The president of TransCanada’s energy and oil pipelines stated that Nebraskans would have a say in determining the final route. Nebraska’s Department of Environmental Quality is working with the U.S. State Department to find the best location for the pipeline.

A crowd of up to 1000 McGill students and staff gathered outside the school’s James Administration building on Monday afternoon. It was a peaceful rally with a bitter atmosphere, held because they were unhappy with the way McGill’s administration handled Thursday’s protest against tuition hikes.

Thursday's protest ended with students occupying the administration building, resulting in riot police being called.

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The Montreal Alouettes were eliminated 52 to 44 by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats during the East Division semifinal Sunday afternoon. 

More than 33,000 spectators had gathered in the Olympic Stadium for the playoff game. 

Depanneurs are worried sales will drop if Loto-Quebec starts selling tickets online.

Sports betting tickets may be available online as early as January 2012. A Loto-Quebec spokesperson says there is no specific date set.

The vice-president of the Canadian Convenience Stores Association says this would affect depanneurs’ profits. He says stores depend on alcohol, tobacco, and lottery tickets to stay in business. He says six hundred deps in Quebec closed in the last three years.

Finally, after months of preparation and planning, Quebec students took to the streets to protest against tuition hikes. The number of protesters is estimated to be upwards of 20 000.

These students want a tuition freeze and a stop to the proposed sixteen hundred and twenty-five dollar tuition hike proposed in the Quebec budget.

Approximately two hundred thousand students were technically on strike on November 10th, but many still went to class. 

At UQAM and Dawson College though, students stood in doorways forcing the school to cancel classes.

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The Shafia trial resumed Tuesday after a delay due to illness. It's been an emotional trial so far.

Mohammed Shafia, his wife Tooba Mohammed Yahya and their son Hamed are charged with four counts of first degree murder. Their three teenage daughters and another relative were drowned in the Rideau Canal in Kingston in 2009.

A relative of the mother's came from Sweden to testify. He claimed Mohammed Shafia asked him to invite the Shafia daughters to Sweden. Shafia allegedly told the relative he thought it would be easier to drown them there.

The Pentagon is increasing efforts to build an arsenal of cyber weapons for use against enemy targets by the U.S. military.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, held a symposium discussing the increasing threat to systems controlled by computers.The goal is to secure U.S. infrastructure and assure the military’s ability to use these systems in future conflicts. A recent DARPA assessment found that the U.S. is limited in dealing with fast-evolving threats from malicious software code.

DARPA played a role in creating Arpanet, a forerunner to the Internet.