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The State Department announced on Wednesday that the U.S. government has rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

According to CBC, the Department said in a statement that they are willing to accept an application with a different route.TransCanada has said that they will apply with a new route based on the research they have compiled these past three years. 

The city of Montreal announced on Tuesday the creation of a new committee against racial profiling.

According to CTV Montreal, its purpose will be to fight and curb racial profiling in the city’s public institutions.

The Montreal Public Transit Corporation and the Montreal Police will be two main partners of this committee. Police chief Marc Parent said officers found using racial profiling could face consequences as serious as dismissal.

Mayor Gerald Tremblay admitted in a statement that social and racial profiling was a major issue in the city’s administration.

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The first person charged under the post 9/11 Security of Information Act is a member of the Canadian armed forces.

According to the Montreal Gazette navy lieutenant Jeffrey Paul Delisle was charged Monday for communicating classified information to a foreign entity.  CTV News reported that the foreign entity may have been Russia.

The alleged crime supposedly took place over a period of four years.  Delisle was charged with three counts under the anti-terrorism law and could face a life in prison.

According to CBC, the Iranian community of Montreal is at a standstill about to do with the body of 34-year-old Farshad Mohammadi. Montreal Police shot Mohammadi on January 6th after he attacked an officer with an exacto knife at Bonaventure metro station.

Currently, authorities are unable to find Mohammdi’s family and therefore are unsure what his last wishes were.

The Liberals have voted yes to the legalization of marijuana at the Liberal Party’s biennial convention on Sunday morning. 

According to the Huffington Post, interim party leader Bob Rae acknowledged that the war on drugs was not working effectively. 

He also said that the implications of the resolution had to be carefully studied.

Still, 77% of the delegates said they wanted a future Liberal party to legalize the drug.