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The School of Community and Public Affairs may be Concordia’s first Anglophone undergraduate student association to join the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante if their membership is approved by ASSÉ in April.

According to The Link, from the 38 percent of students that voted in the SCPA’s general elections last week, 71 percent were in favour of joining ASSÉ.  

Executive secretary Anthony Garoufalis-Auger stated that the policy research SCPA students do for their classes could be of use in ASSÉ. 

New Brunswick mine workers discovered finding new jobs close to home is no easy task.

According to CBC, a new job training centre opened to help the mine employees find a new job. About 1000 people will be unemployed by the time the mine closes on May 10.

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The United Nations have called Canada’s pullout from the UN drought convention regrettable.

In a report by CBC News, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada is withdrawing from the convention because the program has been too bureaucratic. 

He says less than one-fifth of the 350 thousand dollars Canada puts into the convention goes to programming.

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The minority Parti Quebécois government has announced an upcoming study on uranium.

Environment Minister, Yves-François Blanchet told the Gazette on Thursday that the study, which will study the impact on the development of uranium in the province, is set to begin next fall.

There will not be a green light issued for the exploration or development of uranium in Québec until the study is completed.

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois is defending a Montreal bylaw that demands protesters give an itinerary at the beginning of a protest.

The Montreal Gazette reports Marois and her ministers do not consider bylaw P-6 to be unreasonable.

After the election, the Parti Québecois removed punitive sections of Bill 78 that limited the number of demonstrators, where they could gather, and giving 8 hours notice.

According to access to information requests made by Radio-Canada, over 180 health care sites contain asbestos.

The carcinogenic fiber used as a fire- retardant is being found in buildings such as hospitals, clinics and long-term care homes.

Provincial authorities are working to create a registry, but say it won’t be completed for another two years. During that time, they will have to determine asbestos levels in buildings and report them.

Student associations and university labour unions can learn a lot from each other.

The Link reports that while labour unions can benefit from the tactics used in the student movement, student associations can equally gain from the history of labour movements.

Spokesperson for the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante Jérémie Bédard-Wien says fostering solidarity between students and workers is extremely important.

Students who work and educational workers face unpredictability and a lack of job security in the workforce, and can benefit from supporting each other.

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Workers at the N.D.G. food depot have until the end of the week to vacant the building that has been serving food to families in need for more than 20 years.

According to the Gazette, though the lease ended on March 31^st, the owners agreed to let the staff stay until June in order to have more time to find a new home. 

A first-year McGill medical resident at St. Mary’s Hospital claims he is being punished by the McGill faculty of Medicine for standing up for patients.

According to the McGill Daily, Dr. Alexander Nataros received a dying patient last November after senior doctors made what he said were “significant life-threatening medical errors.”

Nataros says that by correcting and reporting the errors allegedly made by senior physicians, he was able to save the patient’s life.