Two student associations will file a lawsuit to challenge the newly adopted Bill 78. According to the Montreal Gazette, FEUQ and FECQ will be aided by a non-profit legal clinic when they go to court next week.

The general manager of the Clinique juridique Juripop Marc Antoine Cloutier stated that the group may ask for an injunction against the law.

The lawyers will use a tactic similar to the one used by the Quebec government to prevent the abolishment of the long gun registry.

Cloutier stated that the Clinique has received over 500 emails from lawyers willing to help with the case.

The Clinique is taking on the case because they feel that basic democratic rights have been infringed upon.

A petition against the law has so far seen around 150 000 signatures.

The issue is also important to lawyers, with the Quebec Bar Association making a statement against Bill 78 last week.

While the group hopes for a Cloutier warns that the legal battle could go on for months.

A deadly earthquake struck Italy on Sunday morning.

In a report by the BBC, the magnitude 6.0 quake hit the Emilia Romagna region in the northeast. The epicentre was thirty-five kilometres north of Bologna. It was followed by an aftershock measuring 5.1

Seven people have died and fifty people have been injured. The quake also damaged numerous historical buildings in the region.

Sunday's earthquake was the worst to hit Italy since a 2009 tremor killed 300 people in Central Italy.

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Facebook has announced their share price ahead of Friday’s opening of the stock market.

According to the BBC, the social networking giant has valued their shares at thirty-eight dollars per share.

Facebook have 421 shares ready to be sold when trading opens on the Friday session of the New York Stock Exchange. With their per-share price the company is valued at one-hundred billion dollars.

They will begin trading for the very first time on Friday and the demand is high. Facebook expects to sell 25 percent more shares than planned as a result of the demand.

The company has 900 million users worldwide.

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The National Assembly is debating a new bill introduced by the Liberals in an effort to end the tuition fee strikes.

According to the Montreal Gazette, Bill 78 imposes heavy fines to student groups and labour federations who prevent a student from attending class. The fines range from one thousand to one-hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

The Bill states that fourteen CEGEPs and eleven universities will have their winter semester suspended unless the strike ends before it becomes law. Classes will resume on August seventeenth at the latest and August first at the earliest. It also states that protestors who plan a march must give the planned route, time, duration, venue and their means of transportation to the police eight hours in advance.

The institutions affected by this bill have until June first to plan their August schedules while students have until June fifteenth to announce of they plan to return.

Bill 78 is expected to become law by Friday evening at the earliest.

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