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Student protesters blocking Jacques Cartier Bridge at rush hour yesterday were shut down by police.

According to the Montreal Gazette three hundred students were blocking a main bridge connecting Montreal to the South Shore for almost an hour yesterday.

Montreal Police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd after warnings to leave weren’t observed. One arrest was confirmed.

Students were protesting the almost two thousand dollar increase in tuition fees expected to take place over the next five years.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s interim report leaked on Thursday, a day before the actual report was to be released in Vancouver.

It is composed of 20 recommendations that include some about health, education, and commemoration, among others.

The report calls on material about residential schools in aboriginal communities to be included in the jurisdiction of public schools to inform kids about the history.

Bill C-30 now has an estimated price tag.

According to the CBC, the online surveillance bill will cost at least $80 million to implement. 

The bill would update Canadian law when it comes to crimes committed online. 

Municipalities will be allowed to set up more photo radars. Bill fifty-seven will allow more of them in high risk areas like school zones and roadwork areas.

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Gasoline prices reached their highest levels in nine months last Tuesday according to the CBC.

A two point five percent increase in the price of a barrel of regular gas has been noticed in New York.

This is due to European leaders lending the equivalent of 172 million Canadian Dollars to Greece.

This way, Greece can avoid a debt default after Iran has clarified the conditions in which it would export gas to the European Union.

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In the run-up to a possible spring election the Parti Quebecois has strengthened it’s push for independence.

According to the Globe and Mail the PQ recently announced it would update over one hundred studies on Quebec sovereignty.  Included is the infamous Bélanger-Campeau papers – once used to justify the 1995 referendum.

Quebec students are still on strike against tuition-fee hikes, as roughly 36,000 post-secondary students will be striking Tuesday.

Less than 10 percent of students from some universities and colleges will be participating after a vote was held. These actions are a message for the Charest government.

Iran has cut off oil exports to France and Britain as reported by the Montreal Gazette.

In a move seen as retaliation for sanctions placed against them, Iran cut off it's exports of oil to France and Britain on Sunday.

The move coincides with UN inspectors arriving in the Islamic Republic on Monday to press about the disputed Nuclear Program undertaken there.

Students have spent the weekend planning strike action.

According to CTV, CEGEP student leaders from around Quebec convened at CEGEP Montmorency to plan out their strike action should a walkout occur.

Plenty of students are already on strike as of last week and more should follow suit in the coming weeks.

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