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Stories by Julia Bryant, Saturn De Los Angeles & Emeline Vidal

Produced by Catlin Spencer

LOCAL
by Saturn de Los Angeles

On the day after the federal election, Justin Trudeau was seen taking selfies with commuters at Montreal's Jarry Metro station.

In a report by the Toronto Star, the newly elected Prime Minister was shaking hands with commuters at the Tuesday morning rush hour.

He was thanking his constituents for supporting him and the Liberal party during the election's 78-day long campaign.  

The Liberals won a huge majority of seats late Monday night, effectively ending nearly a decade of Conservative rule under Stephen Harper.

NATIONAL
by Alexa Everett

Shell Canada has been given the authorization to begin drilling for oil off the coast of Nova Scotia.

According to CBC, the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board has approved plans for a subsea blowout drilling.

Environmentalists celebrated a small victory after the initial 21-day drilling plan was reduced to 12 or 13 days.  

The project and the drill ship, the Stena IceMAx, are said to be cost Shell nearly $970 million.  

INTERNATIONAL
by Patricia Petit Liang

The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees has found that more than half a million migrants have arrived in Greece since the beginning of 2015.

According to BBC News, Croatia and Slovenia have increased border security after claiming to be overwhelmed by the rising number of migrants entering their countries.

Slovenia is urging the rest of the European Union to help to accommodate the rising number of the migrants in their country.

The International Organization for Migration says that more than 3000 people have lost their lives while migrating this year.

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Stories by: Catlin Spencer

Produced by: Emeline Vidal

LOCAL
by Catlin Spencer

Montreal’s Concordia University will be hosting academics from all over North America on Friday to explore gender and human development.

According to the Montreal Gazette, the conference on gender and gender issues was organized by the university's own developmental psychologist William Bukowski.

Topics ranging from addressing gender segregation, to working with sex-atypical youth to feminism and masculinity will be presented and discussed.

Bukowski says that gender has become one of the big issues of our time and that there is a lot more leeway now in what it means to be a man or a woman.

NATIONAL
by Catlin Spencer

Eleven people were injured after a man with a hammer entered the Bridge River Indian Band office in British Columbia Wednesday morning and began attacking people.

According to The Globe and Mail, as of Thursday morning, four remained in hospital, one woman with a fractured skull.

Authorities were able to capture and subdue the attacker, who died shortly after his arrest. The cause of his death is still unclear.

Family of the victims say the attacker may have been suffering from any of the systematic problems facing the community, such as poverty and substance abuse, which may have lead to the attack.
 

INTERNATIONAL
by Catlin Spencer

Leaders of the European Union received stern warnings at a summit meeting on Thursday to respect their promises to tackle the refugee emergency.

According to CTV News, leaders had pledged to provide hundreds of millions in aid for Syrian refugees, funding for fingerprinting and screening new arrivals to Italy and Greece and to help Africa manage it's borders.

However, after a month, the European Commission says only three of the 28 nations have pledged a total of 12 million euros to help aid African borders and only a dozen have sent personnel to Italy and Greece.

EU President Donald Tusk says leaders can and must do much better as the influx of migrants could get much worse.
 

LOCAL
By Emeline Vidal

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre announced Wednesday that the city will not dump its sewage in the St Lawrence river, following a federal law.

According to the Montreal Gazette, Coderre warns that withholding the sewage could lead to breaks in the sewage system, which would cause long-term pollution to the river.

The Quebec Environment minister sides with Coderre, finding that the province had already fully examined the case.

No mention was made of where or when the sewage would be released.

NATIONAL
By Saturn De Los Angeles

A new investigation reveals that many First Nation communities in Canada have experienced severe water problems in the past decade.

According to CBC News, 400 out of the 618 communities had water advisories for as long as up to 20 years, such as Ontario's Neskantaga and British Columbia's Nazko First Nations.

First Nations Child and Family Caring Society Director - Cindy Blackstock - calls this finding outrageous that water - a basic life necessity - would be denied to Natives in a supposedly wealthy country.

Public researchers believe that a poorly maintained water infrastructure to rural areas and inadequate funding may be some of the many causes.

Federal agencies including Aboriginal Affairs declined to comment, but a Health Canada spokesperson acknowledged the seriousness of the issue.