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A new initiative in indigenous justice has been brought to the table.

A call for indigenous activists and allies to act and speak up about injustices has been set forth. The campaign is called Idle No More.

According to Rabble.ca it is coming out of the growing frustration of the silencing of indigenous rights across Canada.

During the federal budget negotiations, First Nations leaders were denied entrance to the House of Commons despite the impacts of the bill having direct effects on indigenous people.

This, in addition to the frequent dishonoring of Treaties between nations has sparked this campaign.

So far the initiative remains primarily through social media networks however aim to broaden to other forms of resistance such as peaceful protests and marches to raise awareness.

STORY WRITTEN BY: HANNAH BESSEAU 

The Canadian government is working on a new system to speed up the acceptance of skilled foreign tradespeople.

According to the Globe and Mail the Immigration Minister announced that Jan 2, 2013 will mark the beginning of a new federal skilled trades program.

The Immigration Minister stated that the program will decrease labour shortages within certain regions of the country.

Applicants within the program are required to have at least two years experience within their trade and to speak a basic amount of either language.

A lifeless body found in an SUV in north end Montreal could be a common trend says an expert.

According to the Globe & Mail, Antonio Nicaso, a Toronto based author who has written about the mafia, told the paper that tension has risen since Vito Rizzuto served out his prison sentence and came back to the city. He also claimed that the situation could get worse as associates, friends and family members of the Montreal mobster are increasingly being picked off one by one.

50 year-old Emilio Cordeleone, was found dead in his SUV in north-end Ahuntsic on Saturday morning, ,with numerous serious injuries to his upper body.

SPVM spokesman, Dany Richer, said that the victim is believed to be linked to Italian organized crime. The Cordeleone family was well know to police in Quebec and was named in a 1991 report on the mafia in the province.

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Quebec university administrators and students are speaking out against cuts and fee hikes proposed by the Parti Quebecois.

Minister of Higher Education Pierre Duchesne said on Tuesday that Quebec universities will need to cut $124 million dollars from their budgets.

But university officials aren’t happy with that announcement.

Université de Laval rector Denis Brière expressed his frustrations in Radio-Canada interview last Wednesday.

Brière criticized the PQ for breaking their promise to hold an education summit before making any decisions regarding higher education in Quebec.

McGill principal Heather Munroe-Blum addressed the cuts in a mass email sent out last Friday.

In the message, Munroe-Blum called the cuts “short-sighted.”

The McGill Daily reported that Duchesne also wants to increase international student fees by 7.6 per cent.

Martine Desjardins, president of the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec, told The Daily that this fee hike adds up to over two hundred dollars extra per international student.

STORY WRITTEN BY: ALYSSA TREMBLAY