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Negotiations between McGill support staff and the administration are back on. After calling talks off last week, the two groups will meet with a conciliator on Friday.

Members of the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association (MUNACA) have been on strike since September 1.

Recently the chancellors dinner at McGill was postponed. This dinner is an annual event that celebrates major donors for McGill. It was expected to be even larger this year because it is McGill’s 190th year. The event was postponed till sometime in the Spring.

The administration points to events such as the student strike where police came on campus as reasons for the delay. However MUNACA workers see it as a sign their strikes are working. MUNACA President Kevin Whittaker said they consider the delay a victory.

A Montreal teenager won the right to return to his English high school Monday after months of fighting. Sixteen-year-old Emilio Morales-Espinosa was forced to attend a French school after his father applied for permanent residency. 

Quebec language laws allow children of parents who have temporary residency to attend English school. The exception no longer applies once the family applies for permanent residency.The family emigrated from Mexico eleven years ago. The government reversed its decision in this case on humanitarian grounds.

A spokesperson for the English Montreal School Board stated that they’ve lost almost seven thousand students over the last decade.The majority of those lost are due to the language laws and it is crippling the English system.The family’s two younger children have yet to hear if they will be allowed back into English school.

Suite à l'échec de la commission visant à réduire l'endettement des États-Unis, Barack Obama s'est dit déçu et blâme les Républicains pour le résultat. Rappellons que cette commission était composé de 12 membres dont 6 républicains. 

Afin de remédier à la situation les démocrates ont proposé une hausse d'impôts pour les plus aisés alors que les Républicains ont proposé de couper dans certains programmes sociaux.

Cette impasse a pour conséquence de lancer un message négatif au marchés internationaux.

De plus, à partir de 2013 la loi prévoit une réduction automatique des dépenses sur 10 ans qui coupera également dans les programmes sociaux et la défense.

A study done by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care says that most Canadian women under 50 do not need regular mammograms. It also says that woman over 50 can go three years between their scans.

However, these guidelines are for women who are healthy, don’t have first-degree relatives who have battled breast cancer and have never had breast cancer themselves.   

This study is the first of its kind to be conducted in Canada in 10 years.

 It has been reported that the suggestion for older women to get a mammogram every two years has not lowered deaths from breast cancer. Instead, it is making women more anxious about having breast cancer. Mammograms spot any lumps found in the breast and most of them are not even cancerous. The procedure is also quite uncomfortable and pricey.

The CTFPH want to make sure that the public knows that these suggestions are only a guideline. It is solely up to the patient to decide how frequently they go for check-ups.