NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29TH 2018

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LOCAL
By Allison O’Reilly

A video showing Montreal transit officers restraining and choking a man at the Guy-Concordia metro station has gone viral.

According to CTV News, witnesses claim the man attempted to use his girlfriend’s OPUS card on Friday evening, before he was tackled by two STM officers.

The video shows the man lying on the ground and kicking as he struggles beneath the weight of the two officers trying to subdue him.

The STM wouldn’t comment on the case because the investigation is ongoing.

NATIONAL
By Calvin Cashen

A recent letter written by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sparked a new mandate on gun control regulation in Canada.

According to CBC News, Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction Minister Bill Blair has been given the task of defining new policy and legislation on gun control.

The issue was brought to prominence following a mass shooting in Toronto last July.

INTERNATIONAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Fishermen discovered the bodies of 300 dead sea turtles entangled in fishing nets in Oaxaca, Mexico.

According to BBC News, this comes just days after 102 olive ridley turtles were found dead in the state of Chiapas.

Olive ridley turtles, which lay their eggs on the beaches of Mexico, are considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

The cause of their deaths is still under investigation.