Quebec's anti-protest legislation tramples basic rights: legal experts
Globe and Mail
Even as the Quebec legislature continued Friday morning its section-by-section adoption of a special law to stop this spring's student protests, legal experts are saying the legislation goes too far and contravenes fundamental rights.
All-night debate on Quebec law spills into FridayCTV.ca
Debate rages on in Quebec legislature ahead of vote on student-protest billWinnipeg Free Press
Quebec student protests: Back-to-school act threatens big finesMontreal Gazette
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Facebook shares open at $42 as it begins trading on Nasdaq
The Guardian
Facebook began trading shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange this morning, opening at just over $42, instantly up 10% on the initial offer price, before dropping back to just over $40. With the initial offer price of $38, Facebook's shares were already …
Facebook IPO: Nasdaq experiencing delay in tradingToronto Star
Facebook IPO: Mark Zuckerberg rings opening bellCanada.com
Facebook shares jump as trading opens on Nasdaq marketUSA TODAY
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G8 and Nato summits: will our world leaders get anything done?
The Guardian
World leaders will fly into the US on Friday for four days of intense diplomacy, against a backdrop of the deepening eurozone crisis and tension in the international military coalition in Afghanistan. After delivering a speech on international …
Obama hosts G8, NATO leadersCNN International
Obama and Camp David, by Mark Knoller's numbersABC News
Eurozone crisis looms large for world leadersToronto Sun
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Quebec student protests: Province bringing in legislation to end strike
Canada.com
QUEBEC — The Quebec government intends to present a bill to end the province's 14-week tuition strike, Premier Jean Charest announced Wednesday night — a proposal that was quickly and decisively rejected by student leaders.
Quebec expected to introduce law pausing school year todayCBC.ca
Student protests: Parti Québécois's Pauline Marois calls on Quebec Premier …Montreal Gazette
Quebec to suspend school semester amid protestsCTV.ca
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to skip rainbow flag-raising, organizers call it lost …
Montreal Gazette
TORONTO – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will not be attending a rainbow flag-raising to mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. The group behind the event – Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays – says the mayor declined an …
Mayor Ford to miss city hall rainbow flag-raisingCTV.ca
City Manager: there isn't $100 million in service efficiencies left in …MetroNews Canada
PFLAG to raise rainbow flag at city hallXtra.ca
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Federal study suggests relocating EI recipients
CTV.ca
OTTAWA — A new study from the Human Resources Department suggests Ottawa is looking at ways to get people receiving employment insurance to move to other regions with more jobs. Such measures would go beyond the Harper government's new policy that …
EI study asked recipients to consider movingCBC.ca
Federal study suggests relocating EI recipients to regions with labour needsCanadianBusiness.com

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Basic civil rights ignored by some police, says finding of G20 report
Winnipeg Free Press
TORONTO – Ontario's Officer of the Independent Police Review Director on Wednesday released its report into the G20 summit in Toronto in June 2010. Among its findings and recommendations: Key Findings: Some officers ignored basic civil rights.
Police violated civil rights, acted illegally, says scathing report on G20 summitNational Post
G20 police trampled 'basic rights of citizens,' scathing report concludesToronto Star
Some officers ignored basic rights during G20, review saysToronto Sun
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Quebec police riot squad breaks protest blockade
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — Around 100 baton-carrying Quebec riot police broke a blockade at a Montreal-area community college Tuesday morning, a day after a similar protest shut the school down. Faculty and staff of College Lionel Groulx in suburban Ste.
Montreal protesters shut down classes at universityCBC.ca
Protesters storm classes, force out studentsMetroNews Canada
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Tori Stafford's brother describes a life and family broken by loss (with video)
Calgary Herald
Read the sentencing statements from the judge, Rafferty and Victoria Stafford's brother. Even in a world where victimhood is regarded as akin to a universal right, where people claim trauma at the death of a stranger or a celebrity or even at a …
Tori Stafford trial: Dad hopes for positive changeEdmonton Journal
Christie Blatchford: Tori Stafford's family talks of loss before theatrics …National Post
Tori Stafford trial: Brother, parents share their pain while Michael Rafferty …Toronto Star
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Rafferty proclaims innocence following victim impact statements
Globe and Mail
When eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford was abducted and murdered, her older brother lost not only a sister, but his best friend, he wrote in a victim impact statement read at the sentencing of a man convicted in her death.
Tori Stafford trial: Michael Rafferty sentencing draws huge crowdMontreal Gazette
Michael Rafferty in tears at sentencing as Tori Stafford's family speaksToronto Star
Tori Stafford trial: Michael Rafferty cries as Tori Stafford's family speaksVancouver Sun
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