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Concordia students who have had their classes cancelled will not be given academic amnesty said Concordia spokesperson Chris Mota to CTV Montreal.

Classes will also not be extended through the summer due to contract issues with faculty. Yet the university has encouraged professors to do take home exams.

Many classes especially ones in the Geography and Fine Arts departments have lost a considerable amount of course time since the strike at Concordia began. Some departments have been on strike for almost two months.

Concordia also announced on Thursday that President Frederick Lowy will hold a town hall meeting to discuss tuition hikes with students.

The town hall meeting will take place on Tuesday April 10 in H-110 of Concordia’s Hall building.

The meeting was prompted by a brief occupation of the hall outside President Lowy’s office on Monday. Around 70 students mostly from the Fine Arts faculty occupied the 15^th floor of the John Molson Building. They demanded that Concordia give academic amnesty for those who miss classes to strike.

Flickr photo by Steve Drolet

The long gun registry will officially be history.

The Montreal Gazette reported late on Wednesday evening that the Governor General's signature is all that's needed to kill the long-gun registry and enforce Bill C-19.

The vote passed in Senate by a count of 50 to 27. This marked the last hurdle needed to end the registry.

While most Conservative Senators widely support Bill C-19, several Liberal Senators voted in favour of the bill. The Tory Senators applauded when the Liberal names were announced.

Bill C-19 will put an end to the long-gun registry, however, gun licences for individuals and the registry for prohibited firearms will remain in tact.

The Governor General's signature is expected on Thursday morning.

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Thomas Mulcair and Bob Rae are taking part in a war of words.

The New Democrats and Liberals are battling to see who will oppose the Conservatives as national alternative. The fighting escalated after a new poll suggested the NDP is gaining popularity since Mulcair was elected in late March.

 Rae, the interim Liberal leader, went as far as calling Mulcair a “mini-Harper” due to his ultra-partisan style. For his part, Mulcair clearly indicated that he thinks the Liberals are irrelevant.

The NDP is leading the way in Quebec, which is Mulcair’s home base. They are also leading polls in British Columbia.

NHL:

The race to the playoffs continues, and it appears to be a three team race in both conferences with Buffalo, Florida and Washington vying for the final few spots in the East while Phoenix, San Jose, Los Angeles battle it out for the West (Colorado and Dallas look like major long shots at this point).

The topic of concussions has come up again this week, as there is a chance that Canadiens starting goaltender, Carey Price, might be suffering from one at the hands of his own teammate, David Desharnais, who fell on him last week during practice.

Finally, Mike Milbury of NBC openly mocked Sidney Crosby on Philadelphia radio this week the day after the Pens and Flyers had a heated matchup that ended in a brawl. Milbury called Crosby a little punk who deserved to be hit, and mocked him by saying he had just come back from his 35th concussion.

NFL:

The Saints Bounty-Gate drama continues this week as the punished parties in the organization have appealed their suspensions and will meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday. While it doesn't seem likely that Goodell will reduce the suspensions of head coach Sean Payton and GM Mickey Loomis, this does buy them a bit more time to find someone to run the organization in the interim; the most notable name coming up is that of Bill Parcells.

MLB:

The Major League Baseball season is about to begin, and there is already drama brewing; Ubaldo Jimenez of the Cleveland Indians started against his former team, the Colorado Rockies, last week and took the opportunity to let the organization know how he felt about not getting the treatment he felt he deserved last year by hitting all-star Troy Tulowitzki in the elbow with the first pitch of his first at bat.

PGA:

The biggest weekend of the year is about to kick off as Augusta prepares to welcome the world's best golfers at the Masters. The attention will be revolving around - you guessed it - Tiger Woods. Woods is coming off an impressive win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational two weeks ago and many believe is rounding back into his elite form once again; it couldn't have come at a better time for Tiger, and for golf.

-Andrew Maggio co-hosts Game Misconduct every Sunday from 12pm-2pm and runs a dedicated Habs blog that you can check out here