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American player Brittany Lincicome came out on top in the Canadian Women’s Open on Sunday. 

The twenty-five-year-old beat Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis by one stroke.
 
The tournament went on despite fears of cancellation due to tropical storm Irene.
 
Measures were taken to get the fourth round in before the course was washed out.
 
Start times moved up by ninety minutes, participants played in threesomes, and group started on both the first and tenth tees.
 
If they had cancelled the last round, there would have been a playoff between hole leader Wie, Tiffany joh, and Ai Miyuzato.

Quebec has made a $110 million proposal to decrease traffic in Montreal.

The proposal involves ideas such as forty kilometres of reserved bus lanes and a fifty per cent capacity increase for commuter trains.

Elected officials believe that if more people take public transportation it will help decrease traffic.

Quebec's mission began last week when the city of Montreal announced the postponing of certain roadwork projects.

PQ leader Pauline Marois’ had more to worry about Thursday as one of her own caucus questioned the party’s strategy.

Bernard Drainville, the man in question, released a tough analysis of the PQ that he hopes will shed some light on to how the party lost so much public favor so quickly.

A recent poll by La Presse showed that if an election were held now, the Liberals would lead by nearly six percent.

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After several hours of fighting, rebel forces in th Libyan capital of Tripoli have entered President Ghadafi's residential compound. The announcement from Reuters came at about 12 p.m. EST along with news that resistance from loyalists had stopped.

Rebel fighters were seen firing their weapons in to the air in celebration.

For the last few hours, news agencies across the world have kept their gaze fixed on Tripoli. The Libyan civil war has garnered much media attention, especially with NATO involvement.

Canadians across the country have been expressing their affection and sadness for NDP Leader Jack Layton ever since news broke that he died on Monday morning in his Toronto home.
 
Canadians have shared fond memories and sent condolences through news outlets and social networking sites. Social media acted quickly as a way to organize mourners for candlelight vigils and tributes in cities across the nation.
 
A letter written by Layton only two days before he died of cancer has touched the hearts of many. In it he addressed the future of the NDP and offered words of hope for Canada’s future through its youth. He also spoke of his fight with prostate cancer and endorsed the care he was given despite losing the battle.
 

Two British men in their twenties were sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for Facebook pages they created. 

20-year-old Jordan Blackshaw and 22-year-old Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan both created events last week encouraging rioting in their northwest England town of Warrington.

According to prosecutor Martin McRobb, the two men acted independently. McRobb said the men were wrong to believe that inciting disorder from the safety of the virtual world would not have real world consequences.

NHL forward Rick Rypien was found dead in his home Monday night. The RCMP is continuing to investigate the cause of death.

Rypien was acquired by the Winnipeg Jets this summer. He spent the last six seasons in the Vancouver Canucks organization though. Transitioning between the Canucks and their American Hockey League affiliate the Manitoba Moose.

On the ice, he was known as a tough guy who got under the skin of opposing teams. But off the ice, a battle with depression forced him to leave the team twice in three years for personal reasons.

Around 15 Concordia Student Union members joined hundreds of students in protest of the support of tuition hikes by the Quebec young Liberals.

The Liberal youth party met in Lenoxville this weekend, where they agreed to the Charest government's plan to increase tuition from the current $2,200 to $3,800 a year. The president of the Quebec young Liberals said the hike is a way to maintain accessibility to post-secondary education, while "maintaining the qualities of our universities." 

On Sunday, Norwegian police took gunman Anders Behring Breivik back to the scene of his crimes to reconstruct the actions that took place July 22. 

The 32-year-old was heavily guarded. After eight hours, prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby said police were able to get details about what the gunman did last month. 

The entire visit was filmed and could be used in court at Breivik's trial. 

A small block of concrete smashed a car windshield in Papineau street on Thursday afternoon, injuring a passenger. The male passenger who is in his late twenties obtained deep cuts on his arms.

It is unknown whether it was thrown off the overpass or caused by the CP rail freight trains.

The mishap is regarded by some as an example of the Montreal road network falling apart. In July, a concrete beam collapsed on the road in the Ville-Marie Expressway Tunnel.

North American stock markets rebounded from the week’s massive drop late Thursday after traders put cash in to markets by buying stocks that had sunk to attractive lows.

A trading practice known as short selling was also banned for certain shares by four European countries. The practice is believed to have been responsible for the sharp decline in shares of French Banks on Wednesday.

The S&P plummeted 1100 points in three days last week including a 520 point single day loss on Wednesday. 

The US market welcomed the news that less Americans were joining the unemployed than predicted.