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A night of celebration turned to rioting Saturday night in Blainville, leading to the arrest of almost 20 people.

According to CTV News, the riot started shortly after about 200 people refused to leave after an outdoor performance by Les Trois Accords at the Blainville en fete festival.

Rioters tossed objects at police, including bottles, and flipped a police car and set it on fire.

Local police, along with the SQ and other nearby local forces, arrested 19 people, 10 of which were minors between the ages of 14 and 22.

North Korea has reached an agreement with South Korea to resume family reunions of those separated in the Korean War.

The reunions will take place in a North Korean tourist resort on September 19^th. South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye had urged for the continuation of the family reunifications last week.

North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea stated, “the reunion of separated families and their relatives shall be made in Mount Kumgang resort on the occasion of the upcoming Harvest Moon Day."

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This week marks week 11 of the Toronto Plaza Hotel's employee strike.

On May 30, about forty workers at the 200-room hotel walked off the job. They have been protesting wage and benefit cuts ever since.

According to the Toronto Star, employees accepted a wage freeze and cuts to their benefits in 2011. Benefits were supposed to be reinstated in spring of 2013, but never were.

Hotel owner Rehan Chaudary said he would like to give his employees "a very good package", but is unable to because the hotel is struggling.

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An investment treaty between Canada and China is being blocked by the Hupacasath First Nation in B.C.

According to CBC News , the small BC First Nations community said in federal court in June that the federal government must consult with First Nations before signing agreements such as the investment treaty in question.

Federal Government lawyers have argued that any duty to consult First Nations does not apply in this case.

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Military personnel have been sent to Honduras' main prison following a deadly riot.

According to BBC News, the riot broke out due to a fight between gang members and other prisoners, resulting in the deaths of three inmates.

Authorities later found hand grenades and firearms in the prison. A military takeover of the prison has been undertaken.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reports that Honduran jails are regulated by the inmates themselves. The IACHR characterizes the country's prisons as "impoverished, overcrowded, and corrupt".

A man is dead after being tasered by an RCMP officer in Alberta.

According to CBC, the 27 year old man died in hospital Sunday morning.

He had been taken into custody Friday night after an altercation with three RCMP officers at a gas station.

ASIRT Executive Director Clifton Purvis said officers used a taser to subdue the man before handcuffing him.