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Suite à l'échec de la commission visant à réduire l'endettement des États-Unis, Barack Obama s'est dit déçu et blâme les Républicains pour le résultat. Rappellons que cette commission était composé de 12 membres dont 6 républicains. 

Afin de remédier à la situation les démocrates ont proposé une hausse d'impôts pour les plus aisés alors que les Républicains ont proposé de couper dans certains programmes sociaux.

A study done by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care says that most Canadian women under 50 do not need regular mammograms. It also says that woman over 50 can go three years between their scans.

The death toll in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has risen over the weekend. 13 people were killed and hundreds injured following clashes between Egyptian authorities and demonstrators.

The European Union has strongly condemned the violence. Clashes have taken place in other cities as well.

The TV series Big Love may had its final episode, but real life polygamy is still on the air and on trial. The multi-wived faithful will soon learn whether their polygamous way of life is legal in Canada. A B.C. judge will rule Wednesday if Canada’s anti-polygamy laws are unconstitutional.

The polygamous commune in Bountiful, B.C. has lived in defiance of this hundred and twenty one year old law since 1946. The courts have failed to prosecute two of the community’s leaders thus far.

After 28 years of waiting, postal workers won in court yesterday. The supreme court of Canada ruled in their favor in a pay equity case. It could mean up to 250 million dollars in damages awarded to about six-thousand current and former workers.

A case like this might not be seen again for a while. In 2009 conservatives passed a measure that forces workers to deal with pay equity disputes through collective bargaining agreements. It was meant to keep pay equity disputes out of the courts.