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The Grand Chief of the Innu people said that his tribe will continue hunting caribou regardless of the recent ban.

According to CBC News, the Newfoundland and Labrador government prohibited animal hunting from George River for the next five years.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government feel that the ban will prevent the caribou heard from dying off altogether.

The Grand Chief replied by stating that his tribe always make careful decisions on how much caribou will be killed each year.

He also stated that they make a great effort to make sure that the supply of caribou meat is equally distributed within the tribe.

In Greece, layoffs have been ruled out with unemployment at a European record of 27 per cent, as stated in a report by the Guardian.

The country was heading for a full-on collision with its international creditors on Sunday.

Representatives of the creditors: the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank discussed the situation in Greece.

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has issued an apology after a document was leaked explaining how the liberal party planned to win ethnic votes in the upcoming election.

According to the CBC, members of Vancouver’s Chinese and South Asian communities are calling the B.C liberal party dishonest after learning of the party’s plan to get votes from ethnic groups with their Multicultural Strategy. 

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Montreal police officers took to the streets in protest on Thursday morning.

Union members demonstrated in front of the police headquarters on Saint Urbain Street.

The union is upset over a change to their work schedules, according to the CBC.

The protest was spurred by the city of Montreal’s decision to end a pilot project.

The project allowed police officers to work three-day weeks with extended hours.

Union president Yves Francoeur says that the new work schedules are unfair and outdated.

Tensions between the city and the police union are high.

This week's Summit on Higher Education initially proposed a virtual "freeze" on tuition fee hikes.

 But upon finding out it was a three percent hike, student groups responded with disappointment.

The Montreal Media Co-op reports that the Quebec government proposed a kind of price adjustment - called an Indexation - to reflect the province's current social and economic status. 

This indexation called for a three percent annual increase in tuition fees, and a three percent increase cap on “ancillary fees”.

A group in Victoria, British Columbia is calling for a coroner’s inquest following a spike in homeless deaths in the city.

Thirty people living on the city’s streets have died in the last four months.

That’s triple the number of deaths compared to last year, according to the University of Victoria’s Poverty Law Club.

The anti-poverty group hopes an inquest will find solutions to prevent future poverty-related deaths in Victoria.