The Alouettes are looking south of the border to help offset the retirement of Ben Cahoon. The team has signed NFL veteran Jerry Porter to a two-year deal. Financial terms were not released.

Porter spent nine seasons in the NFL, mostly with the Oakland Raiders. But the 32-year-old has been out of football the last two seasons.

The signing will be a reunion for Porter and Als head coach Marc Trestman. The two were part of the Raiders team that went to the Super Bowl in 2002.

It was a big night for Canada this Tuesday at the Brit Awards which are the U.K.'s equivalent to the Grammys. Montreal’s Arcade Fire took home two awards.Winning best international group. As well as best album for their latest release The Suburbs. The group was up against the Black Eyed Peas, Kings of Leon, The Script, and Vampire Weekend for Best Group.

On Sunday The Suburbs also grabbed the group a win for album of the year at the Grammys. Justin Bieber represented Canada by winning Best International Breakthrough Act.

The year is 2004, the location, Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. A young Michael Bresciani is leaving the Coachella Festival after having seen the Flaming Lips, Radiohead, the Cure and the recently reunited Pixies. If that musical experience wasn’t enough, Michael was also working at the HMV Megastore in the heart of Montreal and exploring new music.

News read and produced by Erica Fisher.

WHALE interviews by Joel Balsam.

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

Only twelve candidates will be participating in the elections starting tomorrow. Three of seven executive positions are going uncontested. A byelection will be needed next fall since no one applied for VP of communications.

Efforts have been made by the organization to clean up the elections. However, the decision to remove slates has its consequences.

Students will have no choice over three of their executives. To make voting easier, executive summaries of each candidate will be available at voting tables.