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US President Barack Obama announced his bid for re-election this morning on his website. Joe Biden will be running along side Obama for the office of Vice President. Using his new slogan "It begins with us", Obama told his supporters that the campaign had started. This means that the race for contributions is on.

Erick Ung, candidate for Independant councillor on YOUR Concordia, encourages students to vote on the last days of polls. Ung won his position.

To everyone’s relief, a missing twenty inch poisonous snake that went missing from a New York city zoo has been found.

The Egyptian Cobra was found hiding in the holding areas of the zoo’s reptile enclosure. Officials managed to lure the snake out with wood shavings.

The snake gained notoriety when an anonymous Twitter account @BronxZoosCobra began posting shortly after the snake went missing.

The snake tweets focused on the fears of local New Yorkers. One tweet went “City may not sleep, but I'm ready to. Ooh a chimney! I bet you bragged to your friends about having a working fireplace in NYC. Hi roomie."

The results are in: Your Concordia has won the Concordia Student Union elections. CEO Oliver Cohen sent out the unofficial results early Friday morning. The results were close, with the Your Concordia executive winning by just under three-hundred-and-fifty votes. 

Your Concordia took nearly a clean sweep of councilors, Board of Governors members and senate representatives. JMSB councilors will be made up of Action candidates and ENCS will be split. There will also be only one Action member on senate.

The Green Party of Canada is challenging a decision not to include Elizabeth May in the upcoming broadcasted leaders’ debates. On Tuesday, a consortium of broadcasters decided to exclude May from the April 12 and 14 debates. That consortium includes CBC and Radio-Canada. The NDP, Conservatives, Liberals, and the Bloc Quebecois were invited. 

The party submitted a complaint to the Federal Court of Appeal. They’re asking that the court review the regulations that say the broadcasters do not have to include every party leader. 

In a recent public address, Syrian president Bashar al-Hassad has decided not to give in to protesters’ demands for reform. In a highly anticipated speech, the president did not announce any significant political reforms, disappointing protesters and international observers alike.

Read by Sarah Deshaies

Produced by Nikita Smith

Stories by Joel Balsam, Cassandra Keating, Sarah Deshaies

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has made his first big campaign promise, and it's a policy that could benefit students.

When Brennan Richer came to CJLO, the station was a very different place. Some DJs hosted for themselves, using the air time as an outlet to express themselves. Others hosted for their community, as a means to promote the culture of their musical taste. Lastly some hosted with all that and more in mind. Not only to promote their show, their genre but for everyone. Brennan Richer has always been one of those DJs and has paved the way for a generation of DJs who approach their shows in that manner. As the host of The Almighty Riff, he has been a staple of the Sunday line and has been a key to building its popularity.

Read and produced by Gareth Sloan

Stories by Joel Balsam, Sofia Gay, Aisha Samu and Dominique Daost.

Residents of Quebec will soon be encouraged to turn off their water taps. Quebecers use more water than any other province in Canada.

On Monday, the provincial government announced new rules to control this overconsumption. Towns in the province will have to measure their water consumption and come up with a plan to cut back.

The rules include installing equipment to detect and fix water leaks, using water meters, and submitting a yearly water report.

The Quebec government estimates this will reduce water production by 20 percent. This will save $2 billion over 20 years.

A plane crash was averted when the landing gear was deployed at the very last second Sunday. The front landing gear of a Bombardier aircraft did not deploy on the first landing. It was forced to try again. This time it worked. Only moments before the plane would have teetered on its nose in a crash.

Similar incidents have become alarmingly frequent with Bombardier airplanes across several continents. Incidents have multiplied over the last few months. Bombardier is investigating the developing landing-gear problems.