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Louise Harel has a creative solution to Montreal’s pothole problem.

On Wednesday the leader of the Vision Montreal Party suggested that the city produce its own asphalt.

City council is having a hard time selecting an asphalt company to repair Montreal’s roads for the next two years .

CBC reported that the council is in a deadlock over who to hire after seven of the companies considered were either named or linked to the Charbonneau Commission.

The contract up for grabs is worth five million dollars.

Another West coast Canadian mining company is the target of an international protest.

According to CBC News, Vancouver-based Eco Oro Minerals Corp. is the target of a Colombian protest in Bucaramanga.

Tens of thousands of Columbians were on the streets defending their water supply from the Canadian gold mining operating in the high-altitude, environmentally sensitive area.

Eco Oro is one of about a dozen Canadian companies that have been targeted in as many countries recently.

Did you have trouble going anywhere between six and seven, last night?

Chances were, you’re not the only one.

The Montreal Metro was suddenly shut-down for an hour, due to a computer glitch, according to the C-B-C.

Shuttle buses outside the stations were out to help stranded passengers get around town.

S-T-M president Michel Labrecque (ME-SHELL, LA-BREK) spoke with Radio-Canada.

Minority students are suspended at higher rates than white students according to statistics from public schools in Portland, Oregon.

The Oregonian reports African American students were four times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students.

American Indian students and Latino students were also disciplined at higher rates while Asian students recorded lower rates.

The results echo a broader trend in the U.S. that civil rights advocates say contributes to the achievement gap.

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Lack of drinking water and extremely cold temperatures are the latest efforts being used by prison guards to force prisoners to end their hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay.

According to a report by Rabble.ca, the strikers’ lawyers have filed an emergency motion in federal court in Washington in response to the treatment of prisoners’ by the guards.

Their lawyers stated that the lack of drinking water has caused additional health risks along those that go with a hunger strike, including kidneys, urinary and stomach problems.

The McGill University student campaign, known as Demilitarize McGill, claims that the links on their new website exposes the university’s involvement in military research and weapon development.

According the Montreal Gazette, this is something that McGill has been denying for a while.