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The provincial government has brought back funding for environmental protection and health research.

But they're in hot water for slashing them off the annual budget in the first place.

CBC News is reporting that Higher Education Minister Pierre Duchesne reinstated $26.5 million dollars to research funding. That amount is good for one year.  

However, the Liberals are not happy with the government's fickle move of taking out money and putting back in the coffers. Interim leader Jean-Marc Fournier says the P-Q has no vision on governing and does not think about the consequences.

There is growing concern over the financial situation at McGill University raising speculation of potential job cuts, reports the Montreal Gazette.

McGill provost Anthony Masi warned union leaders in a meeting Wednesday that nothing was safe, including jobs.

At risk are people without job security.

Masi stated that the $124 million cut to universities in December following the cancelled tuition increases were a huge blow.

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Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said the controversial Bill C-30 will not go ahead due to public opposition on Monday.

According to CBC News, The bill was known as the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. Its role was to enable the authorities to conduct online surveillance and warrantless wiretapping.

Opponents fought against the bill claiming it could potentially strip all Canadians to the right to privacy.

Bangladesh may be facing a difficult future because of climate change.

According to The Star website, climate change will cause a migration unlike anything ever seen. It will leave parts of Asia and Africa uninhabitable.

Bangladesh is expected to absorb the hardest blow. Rising sea levels from melting glaciers could flood seventeen per cent of the country. It is also expected to create twenty to third million refugees and people leave Bangladesh to search for jobs and safety.

Minors under the age of 18 will need to find another way to get a tan.

According to CBC News, a law forbidding the sale of U.V. tanning services comes into effect on Monday.

The P.Q. said the law represents a preventative measure against potential skin diseases from artificial tanning. Dermatologists and other experts agree that U.V. tanning beds can lead to different skin cancers, such as Melanoma.

The city of Montreal is faced another scene reminiscent of last spring’s student protests.

This time around, the protestors say they are against plans for new mining projects in northern Quebec, reports the Gazette.

On Saturday, the second day of protests against those plans, demonstrators rallied outside a job fair at the city’s convention centre.

Police arrested thirty-six people in relation to the protests.

Thirty-two of them will be charged with unlawful assembly, with nine of those being minors.

And four of them will be charged for assaulting an officer.

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Cabinet officials in China have given the O-K to a new set of economic reforms that will help bridge the income divide between the country’s rich and poor people. 

In a report by The Guardian newspaper, The Chinese government's State Council approved an Income Distribution Plan to ensure that its citizens can get equal footing on earning money.

Proposals in the 35-point reform plan include raising rural worker's wages, tax state-owned enterprises and giving interest rate incentives for bank savings accounts.

The plan also aims to improve China’s education, healthcare and affordable housing conditions.