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Depanneurs are worried sales will drop if Loto-Quebec starts selling tickets online.

Sports betting tickets may be available online as early as January 2012. A Loto-Quebec spokesperson says there is no specific date set.

The vice-president of the Canadian Convenience Stores Association says this would affect depanneurs’ profits. He says stores depend on alcohol, tobacco, and lottery tickets to stay in business. He says six hundred deps in Quebec closed in the last three years.

Finally, after months of preparation and planning, Quebec students took to the streets to protest against tuition hikes. The number of protesters is estimated to be upwards of 20 000.

These students want a tuition freeze and a stop to the proposed sixteen hundred and twenty-five dollar tuition hike proposed in the Quebec budget.

Approximately two hundred thousand students were technically on strike on November 10th, but many still went to class. 

At UQAM and Dawson College though, students stood in doorways forcing the school to cancel classes.

The city of Montreal says structures built by Occupy Montreal protesters are not allowed. The protesters, who have been camped out in Square Victoria for the past three weeks, have been building shelters to fight the cold.

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The White House officially states that E.T. never left home.

Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wrote on the House’s website that the American government doesn’t have any sufficient evidence to support the existence of aliens.

Larson did acknowledge the fact that the existence of life trillions and trillions of stars away is possible.  But the odds that they could make contact with earthlings is more than unlikely.

The statement was in response to two petitions by American citizens demanding disclosure on the question and answer section of the White House’s website called We the People.

A lecture on the intersection of art and pornography will be given tonight in the EV building.

Professor Kelly Dennis will discuss the debate over Internet porn and its economies, its communities, its sexisms and its surveillance.

The lecture is part of Concodia's "Speaking of Photography" series.

Kelly Dennis teaches modern and contemporary art history and the history of photography at the University of Connecticut.

The lecture will take place at 6:30pm tonight in room EV-1.605.