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As of 10 pm Thursday night, Montreal’s longest boil-water advisory was finally lifted, and citizens were told the water was safe to drink.

Mayor Michael Applebaum gave the all clear in a press conference Thursday night, roughly 36 hours after the alert was issued late Wednesday morning.

Test results showed no bacterial contamination.

According to CTV, Applebaum said investigations into what caused the city-wide water ban are still on going, but was likely due to the Atwater treatment plant being drained lower than it should have during maintenance.

CBC reports that opposition municipal party leaders are saying the warning system took too long to reach the 1.3 million Montrealers affected.

The decision to expand the alert from the Sud-Ouest borough was made at 9 am Wednesday, but took an hour or more to reach the media and spread across the city.

This was Canada’s second largest boil-water advisory, but not the country’s longest.

According to Global, as of 2011, the average duration of an advisory in a First Nations community was over two years, and has increased over the past decade because of unresolved issues.

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A planned nuclear waste disposal site in southwestern Ontario is a cause of concern for Michigan state senators.

According to The Star, Michigan senate passed a resolution on Tuesday which suggests the waste site be moved farther from the shores of Lake Huron.

The senators expressed their concern over the proximity of the plant to main drinking water intakes for southeast Michigan. Ontario Power Generation explained that there is no danger to the general public living around Lake Huron.

Michigan state rules, prohibit the storage of nuclear waste within 16 kilometres of the lakes and rivers from the Great Lakes system that border its shores.

The proposed site is located 1.6 kilometres from the Lake Huron shoreline. Senators suggest the OPG build the plant more inland away from the sensitive shoreline.

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A new bill in the National Assembly can enable justice to be served when a crime victim comes before.

As reported by The Gazette, Bill 22 would extend Quebec's statutes of limitations on criminal civil suits to 30 years for sexual abuse and 10 years for other crimes.

It will also increase compensation under the Quebec crime victims’ compensation act. 

If passed, victims of a crime can seek compensation from the act to two years from one, raise the amount parents of victims of a crime can ask for to 12 000 dollars and raise the funeral expenses of crime victim to 5000 dollars.

Currently, a crime victim must file a civil suit within three years of the incident. The Bill also enables cases filed 27 years ago to be heard almost instantly.

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