Today is the first day that support workers at MCGill University head back to work after more that three months of strike.

Monday saw 71.5 per cent of MUNACA workers voted yes to the new contract.

Workers will now have a 2.6 to 3.2 per cent wage increase a year. Initially, they were offered an increase of 1.2 per cent. This pay rise will now allow workers to get the maximum pay in 12 years instead of 37.

The MUNACA strike affected many services on campus, such as laboratory and clerical support, registration, and student residence management.

The Quebec Association of Private Daycares wants the Charest government  to overhaul its licensing policies.

The association accuses bureaucrats within Quebec’s Ministry of Family of evaluating similar applications for daycare licenses vastly different from one another.  It wants the province to come up with a fairer standardized grading model.

Canada is standing firm on its decision not to sign on to a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol. China’s compromise to start cutting its greenhouse gas emissions hasn’t swayed Environment Minister Peter Kent. Kent wants more details on China’s proposal to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in 2020.

The gap between the earnings of the rich and the poor in OECD countries is expanding.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, in 2008 the top 10 percent of Canadians average annual income was roughly 105 thousand dollars, which was 10 times higher than the earnings of the bottom 10 percent. The annual income of the bottom 10 percent was closer to 10 thousand.

A University of Toronto professor who claims to be an expert on honour killings told the courtroom of the Shafia murder trials that in some cultures, honour is more valuable than human life.

The professor, named Shahrzad Mojab, said that it’s almost expected for male family members to kill female family members if they threaten the family’s honour.

He said that this belief is strongest in the Middle East.