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News - January 20th 2012
Read by Shaun Malley
Produced by Erica Bridgeman
Stories written by Chris Hanna, Danny Aubry and Katie McGroarty.
Rick Perry quits race for president
Rick Perry announced Thursday that he was quitting the race to replace Barack Obama as president of the United States.
According to Al Jazeera and agencies, Perry said he thought there was no viable path for him in this election and decided to withdraw.
He also said that he would endorse Newt Gingrich for president.
Gingrich is the main conservative rival to front runner Mitt Romney.
The two other candidates left in the race are Rick Santorum, from Pennsylvania, and Ron Paul, from Texas.
Gingrich is only three points behind Romney in South Carolina, and getting just a few of Perry’s vote will be beneficial for him.
Perry had been committing a series of gaffes since the start of his campaign and only had about five percent of the votes.
The Iowa Republican Party announced Thursday that the state’s caucus had been won by Santorum, with thirty-four votes over Romney.
Results released by the Iowa caucuses were the first state-to-state battle to announce who would face Obama on November 6.
Quebec's tobacco lawsuit
Nearly three years ago, the national assembly paved the way for a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against large tobacco firms.
According to CBC News, a Superior Court judge in Ontario gave Quebec the thumbs up last week to commence an anti-tobacco suit.
The suit is estimated to be around $50 billion.
The court deadline is approaching as it is supposed to take place as late as June 2012.
Quebec`s health minister has promised to do whatever it takes to file legal action and meet the court deadline.
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Supreme Court reviews common-law rights
Common-law couples in Quebec may be granted spousal benefits.
According to the CBC, the Supreme Court of Canada is reviewing a landmark case that could alter alimony and property rights for Quebec’s unmarried couples.
Government lawyers argue that the province should allow common-law couples to settle their own affairs.
Several years ago, a wealthy Quebec businessman and his ex-partner argued over alimony payments in court.
The lower courts ruled that the defendant did not have to pay, since the couple had never been married.
However, the Quebec Court of Appeal overturned the verdict, ruling in favour of the plaintiff.
In most Canadian provinces, common-law partnerships are given alimony and property rights.
Quebec is the only province that does not recognize common-law unions, despite the fact that one-third of Quebecers are not married.
Hydro power: not as clean as you think
Hydro power is not as green as you think. According to the Canadian Press, a new study shows that hydro power plants produce about 20 times more greenhouse gases than the government estimate. The study was based in Quebec and is part of a report released by the Global Forest Watch. Hydro power is still cleaner than power from fossil fuels but the study shows that the gap is narrower than expected.
Each hydro plant needs a reservoir. When it is built, the trees in the area are effectively drowned. As they decompose, they release greenhouse gases. The government’s calculations assume that the trees stop releasing gases after about ten years. But the new report says emissions extend far beyond that.
The study estimates that hydro power plants in Quebec emit from seven to thirteen megatonnes of greenhouse gases each year.
Montreal police officer leaks confidential information
A retired Montreal police officer is being accused of leaking names of informants to the mafia.
According to CBC, police found out about the leak through a wiretap investigation in April 2011, and the officer was arrested in October 2011.
Radio-Canada says that the officer tried to sell the information to the mafia for a six-figure sum.
A few names were leaked, but Montreal Police chief Marc Parent says that the sources are not at risk.
Blackout provokes US lawmakers to jump the anti-pirate ship
Yesterday’s Internet blackout on anti-piracy legislation made an impact. Eight U.S. lawmakers withdrew their support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy and Protect I.P. Acts. Most prominently Republican Marco Rubio who co-sponsored the Senate bill.
The legislation targets the sharing of pirated copyright material internationally. Those found guilty could face up to five years in prison.
Critics of the legislation include major online sites Facebook and Google, but it was Wikipedia that made the largest statement by blacking out its website for all of Wednesday. They say the bills would infringe on the free and open Internet. The US News website Politico said seven thousand other sites also participated in the blackout.
According to the BBC, the U.S. Senate could vote on one of the Acts as early as next week.
TransCanada's rejection
The State Department announced on Wednesday that the U.S. government has rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
According to CBC, the Department said in a statement that they are willing to accept an application with a different route.TransCanada has said that they will apply with a new route based on the research they have compiled these past three years.
The original proposal would have run from Alberta all the way to Texas. This would have caused a problem in Nebraska, where it would have cut through an area that supplies drinking water. The proposal was then changed in November of last year. US officials said they would only make a decision at the end of the year, after the next presidential election.
In the meantime, TransCanada is working to build a route around an ecologically sensitive area in Nebraska. That process will most likely finish in September or October of this year.
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