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Student protesters blocking Jacques Cartier Bridge at rush hour yesterday were shut down by police.

According to the Montreal Gazette three hundred students were blocking a main bridge connecting Montreal to the South Shore for almost an hour yesterday.

Montreal Police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd after warnings to leave weren’t observed. One arrest was confirmed.

Students were protesting the almost two thousand dollar increase in tuition fees expected to take place over the next five years.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s interim report leaked on Thursday, a day before the actual report was to be released in Vancouver.

It is composed of 20 recommendations that include some about health, education, and commemoration, among others.

The report calls on material about residential schools in aboriginal communities to be included in the jurisdiction of public schools to inform kids about the history.

Bill C-30 now has an estimated price tag.

According to the CBC, the online surveillance bill will cost at least $80 million to implement. 

The bill would update Canadian law when it comes to crimes committed online. 

Municipalities will be allowed to set up more photo radars. Bill fifty-seven will allow more of them in high risk areas like school zones and roadwork areas.

According to Al Jazeera, US Scientists have identified a new type of planet. It is a planet composed not of rock or gas, but of water.

The planet in question GJ1214b was discovered in 2009. It was initially believed to be covered mostly in water with a temperature far higher than our own.

Hubble telescope information helped validate that claim. Scientists say that the high pressure high temperature of the planet would likely create some interesting scenarios.

Polling for the Arts and Science Federation of Associations will be sometime in the next couple weeks.

According to ASFA President Alex Gordon, new polling dates will be announced as soon as possible, and will likely be two or three weeks after reading week. 

ASFA chose to redo polling after too many violations were committed in the first two days of polling. The biggest error being that students with a minor in Arts and Science could not vote.