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More than a hundred thousand teachers rallied on Wednesday to protest Ontario’s new Bill 115.

The new law is freezing their wages and banning strikes, says the Star.

Sam Hammond, president of Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, put in place a protest that he named “McGuinty Mondays”, starting next week.

The concept is one where teachers are asked by their union not to attend any in-school meetings or meetings with the school system or ministry officials on Mondays.

Unions and management in two Montreal hotels have reached tentative agreements; however, workers began their strike at one hotel.

According to CBC News, workers at the Gouverneur hotel were on strike all day on Sunday. Workers at the Queen Elizabeth and Hilton Bonaventure hotels reached deals and avoided strikes.

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Gatineau Police are investigating after 86 headstones were knocked down at the St. Francois de Sales Cemetery in Gatineau over Labour Day weekend.

Cemetery manager Roger Gagnon received a call from the police Sunday morning at 9am, notifying him of the vandalism.

Headstones of all sizes were knocked down across the cemetery and appeared to have been downed in no specific order.

Up to 80 Yanomami Indians are feared dead in a village deep in Venezuela's jungles.

In a report by National Geographic, the victims are thought to have been massacred by Brazilian gold prospectors. The incident occurred at a native settlement in Venezuela's remote Upper Orinoco region on July 5th.

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In a report by the BBC, global food prices have jumped up ten percent in July.

According to a statement by the World Bank, the rise raises fears of soaring food prices for some of the world’s poorest countries.

The price of corn, wheat and soybean has seen the most dramatic increases. Only prices for rice have decreased from June to July of this year.

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The Conservative government has given the RCMP and the federal border agency the right to use information likely obtained through torture.

According to the Globe and Mail, newly disclosed records show Public Safety Minister Vic Toews quietly released the directives not long after giving similar instructions to CSIS.

The directives given to CSIS were criticized last summer by human rights advocates and opposition MPs.

The campaign to get young Quebecers to vote on the September 4th general election is on.

According to the Gazette, Elections Quebec and Quebec Community Groups Network have partnered up to encourage young anglophones to vote.

The campaign is in response to the low participation of young voters which has fallen 60 per cent in the past 40 years. One in three between the age of 18 and 24 cast a ballot during the 2008 election

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has been given no choice by the Harper government in cancelling several reviews of potential environmental damage.

According to the Gazette nearly three thousand reviews of potential environmental damage were cancelled due to the Harper government`s budget legislation.

Out of the nearly three thousand projects which were cancelled for reviewing, several of them involved fossil fuel energy.