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Monk Island in Lachine is the site of a new monument to remember the victims of the Air India bombing. Families of the victims gathered there Sunday for a memorial event. Canada’s minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multi-culturalism was also there. There are three other monuments in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa. The Monk Island one will be the final memorial.

News read by Sofia Gay and produced by Sarah El Fangary

Stories by Sofia Gay, Sarah El Fangary and Samah Fadil

News Read by Brittany LeBourne and Produced by Drew Pascoe

Stories by Michael Moore, Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo, and Erica Fisher

This week’s DJ of the week is bittersweet. Yaël Ossowski will be leaving CJLO to explore what the world has to offer and make his mark. We would like to thank him first and foremost for being a great addition to the station, working hard on a weekly basis to produce an amazing show and for being an all around great guy.

News Produced by Erica Bridgeman and read by Drew Pascoe

Stories by Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo, Mike Moore, Alina Gotcherian

Read by Sarah Deshaies

Joel Balsam Reporting

Produced by Nikita Smith

Stories by Erica Fisher, Sarah Deshaies, Joel Balsam

Read by Sarah Deshaies

Produced by Nikita Smith

Stories by Gareth Sloan, Erica Fisher, Sarah Deshaies

Read and produced by Gareth Sloan

Stories by Michael Moore,Jaqueline Di Bartolomeo and Samah Fadil

News read by Drew Pascoe

News Produced by Drew Pascoe and Melissa Mulligan

Stories by Marcin Wisniewski, Michael Lemieux, and Chris Hanna

Student groups are protesting as Concordia plans to resign its exclusive beverage contract with PepsiCo Friday. This is according to Sustainable Concordia and the Concordia Student Union. The protest will take place at one-thirty Wednesday outside of the John Molson building.The alleged contract will continue to give Pepsi exclusive rights over selling drinks on campus. Pepsi has been Concordia’s only drink supplier for the past thirteen years.

Omar Khadr has pled guilty to war crimes charges at Guantanamo Bay Monday. This means he admits to throwing the grenade that killed a U.S. medic in Afghanistan in 2002. By pleading guilty, he is also avoiding a possible life-sentence. His plea agreement has not yet been disclosed. It is known that he will be able to transfer to a Canadian prison within one year. 

The much awaited dump of some 390,000 documents relating to the Iraq war has finally taken place and not surprisingly a grim picture emerges from this war of choice that the US and their "coalition of the willing" took part in.