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Occupy Wall Street demonstrators left their mark on Thursday evening when they crossed the Brooklyn Bridge.

The demonstrators began their day by making their voices heard at the city`s financial district and at subway stations.

Approximately three hundred protesters were arrested in New York throughout the day.

Quebec’s Education Ministry is under fire for allegedly hiring a company to rig Google searches on tuition hikes.

The president of the Quebec Federation of University students claims the government paid a company to buy keywords to tweak Google search results on the tuition increases.

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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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Articles By Esther Viragh, Soia Gay, Audrey Folliot, Gregory Wilson and Daniel J. Rowe

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.