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The death of a patient has resulted in the suspension of two nurses.

The Montreal Gazette reports that the nurses were suspended for two and four weeks by the Quebec Order of Nurses.

The suspensions stem from an incident in August 2008. Christine Sasseville died of a major brain hemorrhage shortly after she gave birth to her third child at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.

The hospital report said that Sasseville died from medical error and that the staff on duty that night did not perform the protocol for someone in her condition. Doctors underestimated the urgency of her state and nursing care was absent.

Sasseville’s husband said that the suspensions are too short. A prosecutor suggested that the nurses be suspended for two months.

The baby although born prematurely survived.

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CLASSE voted to rejected the liberal government’s tuition increase proposal.

Quebec’s most militant student group voted at a weekend meeting in Quebec city.

CLASSE’s spokeswoman Jeanne Reynolds said the proposal did not really respond to their demands.

Premier Jean Charest proposed Friday to spread to tuition increase on seven years instead of five, and to increase the bursary program.

Tuition would rise from $254 a year for seven years instead of $325 on five years.

But the legitimacy of the increase is what is being questioned, and there has been no compromise on that.

The proposal still has to be discussed with Quebec’s college and university students associations FECQ and FEUQ, but their leaders said they doubt the offer will be accepted.

The two groups said they think about mediation, but CLASSE said it isn’t interested because they think it won’t change anything at this point.

On Sunday, the Quebec Liberal Government said it was relocating its annual convention from Montreal to Victoriaville because of the protests.

Nightly protests have been held in Montreal lately, marked by violent police interventions.

A major protest was planned to be held in Montreal Sunday night.

The province-wide class boycott is in its eleventh week and has since drawn international attention.

A new scandal has once again rocked the Secret Service

A report on an alleged scandal similar to the one that occurred in Cartagena, Colombia surfaced on Thursday.

CNN affiliate KIRO in Seattle, reports that a contractor formerly with the Secret Service stated that the acts were committed in March 2011 in El Salvador before President Obama arrived for a diplomatic visit. He said that a dozen or so agents went to strip clubs in the capitial San Salvador and paid heavily for drinks and sexual favours.

A U.S. government official admitted the agents' mistakes, however defended the government's internal review process on the situation. The investigation into the Cartagena scandal in ongoing.

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