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A Montreal man is facing the stiffest sentence related to animal cruelty the province has ever issued.

According to CBC News, Geoffrey Laberge was sentenced to 6 months in prison after he beat and stabbed his two dogs in August 2011.

Veterinarian Lissa Altschuler said one of the dogs, a 3-year old pug was stabbed in the head. Both were taken to a veterinary clinic in NDG and both survived the attacks.

The SPCA said a sentence of this magnitude sends a message to the public that animal cruelty is being taken seriously.

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The main walkway to an AMT train station will soon become a condo construction zone.

According to the Gazette, the new Tour des Canadiens will be built on the walkway that is the main entrance to the Lucien L'Allier train station. The site is now known as Centennial Plaza located next door to the Bell Centre.

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Gilles Surprenant has testified that he has met Mob boss Vito Rizzuto twice before.

According to CBC News, the former Montreal engineer met Rizzuto twice over the time he was accepting kickbacks on construction contracts.

They crossed paths in 1997 and 2002 both times while playing golf in the Dominican Republic and Terrebonne a suburb on Montreal’s north shore.

Surprenant testified last week that he accepted $600 000 in bribes over a period of ten years. In return for giving more money to construction companies through the contracts they won.

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Mohawk Kateri Tekakwitha has become the first North American aboriginal to ascend to sainthood.

Pope Benedict XVI conducted the canonization ceremony of Tekakwitha and six other individuals at the Vatican’s St-Peter Basilica Sunday morning.

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The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act, known as FIPPA,will come into effect at the end of October.

It is Canada’s biggest foreign trade treaty since NAFTA, reports the Vancouver Observer.

This treaty will penalize BC from negotiating a greater share of profits and creating regulations related to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline for the next thirty-one years.

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Quebec Premier Pauline Marois visited France and met President Francois Hollande at the Elysee palace in Paris.

According to CBC News Hollande stated that he is neither for or against the idea of an independent Quebec.

France`s neutral policy on the seperation of Quebec was introduced in the 1970`s, but was frozen during the Sarkozy era.

Quebec seperatists have always sought support from France, believing that obtaining support from a foreign country would help them become independent.

With or without France`s support Quebec will not seperate anytime soon with recent surveys indicating a miniscule amount of Quebecers favouring seperatism.