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The mining and exportation of asbestos may be coming to an end the new PQ government.

During the election campaign, the Liberals were ready to give the industry 58 million dollars.

However, the PQ, the CAQ and Quebec Solidaire all pledged to end Quebec’s support of asbestos mining.

According to Rabble.ca, this marks a historic political shift in support for the mines, where the modern Quebec labour movement was born.

A recent study shows that university is a lot less affordable now than it was twenty years ago.

The report, done by the CCPA, looked at how accessible univeristy is for average Canadian familes by examining tuition fees and family income.

According to the results, education affordability has decreased since 1990 across the country in all provinces with the exception of Newfoundland and Labrador.

More than a hundred thousand teachers rallied on Wednesday to protest Ontario’s new Bill 115.

The new law is freezing their wages and banning strikes, says the Star.

Sam Hammond, president of Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, put in place a protest that he named “McGuinty Mondays”, starting next week.

The concept is one where teachers are asked by their union not to attend any in-school meetings or meetings with the school system or ministry officials on Mondays.

Unions and management in two Montreal hotels have reached tentative agreements; however, workers began their strike at one hotel.

According to CBC News, workers at the Gouverneur hotel were on strike all day on Sunday. Workers at the Queen Elizabeth and Hilton Bonaventure hotels reached deals and avoided strikes.

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Gatineau Police are investigating after 86 headstones were knocked down at the St. Francois de Sales Cemetery in Gatineau over Labour Day weekend.

Cemetery manager Roger Gagnon received a call from the police Sunday morning at 9am, notifying him of the vandalism.

Headstones of all sizes were knocked down across the cemetery and appeared to have been downed in no specific order.

Up to 80 Yanomami Indians are feared dead in a village deep in Venezuela's jungles.

In a report by National Geographic, the victims are thought to have been massacred by Brazilian gold prospectors. The incident occurred at a native settlement in Venezuela's remote Upper Orinoco region on July 5th.

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In a report by the BBC, global food prices have jumped up ten percent in July.

According to a statement by the World Bank, the rise raises fears of soaring food prices for some of the world’s poorest countries.

The price of corn, wheat and soybean has seen the most dramatic increases. Only prices for rice have decreased from June to July of this year.

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