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The G8 is officially condemning North Korea’s recent war threats towards South Korea.

The group of foreign ministers issued the statement on Wednesday after meeting in London.

The G8 is made up of representatives from eight of the richest countries in the world.

Canadian foreign minister John Baird is part of this group.

North Korean state television has been issuing nuclear war and missile threats to neighbouring South Korea.

According to Al Jazeera, tensions are rising between North and South Korea.

It’s official: after 66 years food trucks will be making their way back onto Montreal streets.

The Montreal Gazette reports the city’s commission on economic and urban development voted unanimously to allow the return of street food.

Starting June 20, the downtown Ville Marie borough will pick ten sites where food trucks and carts can sell food.

Vendors must have a registered restaurant or catering business in Montreal to be eligible for a license.

Radiological exams performed in private clinics may soon be paid for with public money

The provincial government announced it will start footing the bill for a wider variety of medical imaging procedures.

Right now, Quebec’s health insurance board only covers radiological exams conducted in hospitals.

At privately owned clinics however, patients pay out-of-pocket for MRIs, ultrasounds, CT and CAT scans.

Religious tension rumbles at Jerusalem’s wailing wall but its not between the groups you might think.

According to BBC News, Orthodox Jewish women want to pray and perform religious ceremonies at the historic site of the ancient biblical temple.

The group Women of the wall want to perform religious rituals that Orthodox Jews say are reserved for me.

Ten members of the group were arrested recently.

Chairman of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky proposed a new area for mixed gender and women led prayer.

E-learning was put on the spotlight at a conference last week at Concordia.

The Link reports people gathered from around the world to share their secrets on improving the e-learning experience.

Some of the technology highlighted included gesture-based computing, video games, synchronous online classes and social media.

Concordia Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning Ollivier Dyens says these technologies have forced us to really think about what is a twenty-first century university.