NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH 2018

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LOCAL

A Laval school principal has been charged for child luring, sexual assault and exploitation.

Harold Vallée is the principal of the Centre de Qualification Professionnelle et d'Entrepreneuriat de Laval.

CBC reports Vallée has been fired from his job, and is expected back in court January 11th.

NATIONAL

The Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Métis National Council and the Government of Canada are working together to build a framework for the care and education of Indigenous children.

Ottawa will also invest up to $1.7 billion over the next 10 years.

Funding for the framework comes from the 2016 budget of $7.5 billion for various childcare services.

INTERNATIONAL

Thousands are protesting in the streets of Ethiopia after at least 23 were killed in a racially motivated attack near the capital, Addis Ababa.

Al Jazeera reports 200 people were arrested in connection with the attack, which broke out during the return of the Oromo Liberation Front, a formally banned rebel group.

Groups of Oromo youth, the regional ethnic majority, are believed to be responsible.