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The campaign to get young Quebecers to vote on the September 4th general election is on.

According to the Gazette, Elections Quebec and Quebec Community Groups Network have partnered up to encourage young anglophones to vote.

The campaign is in response to the low participation of young voters which has fallen 60 per cent in the past 40 years. One in three between the age of 18 and 24 cast a ballot during the 2008 election

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has been given no choice by the Harper government in cancelling several reviews of potential environmental damage.

According to the Gazette nearly three thousand reviews of potential environmental damage were cancelled due to the Harper government`s budget legislation.

Out of the nearly three thousand projects which were cancelled for reviewing, several of them involved fossil fuel energy.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has won over German Chancellor Angela Merkel in his attempt to conclude one of the biggest trade deals since NAFTA.

In a report by the Globe & Mail, Merkel promised to quickly complete talks on an ambitious Canada-European Union trade deal.

Everytime I hear the tune “it’s the most, wonderful time…of the year!” play during a commercial for school supplies, I tend to agree; it is, in fact, a wonderful time, but not because school is around the corner.

It’s a wonderful time because the NFL, NBA, and (hopefully) NHL seasons are around the corner. Today, we stick to football, as preseason slooooowly trickles by, while anticipation for opening night continues to build.

Organizers of an event in Montreal were left scrambling after Immigration Canada denied temporary visas to 35 women from Haiti.

The art exibit, organized by members of Montreal's Haitian Community, was forced to cancel.

Member of Women in Action for Haiti Caroline Telemaque stated that they carefully examined each woman. The federal government wanted more proof that the women would return home after the event.

Three more CEGEP student associations voted to end the strike and return to class on Thursday.

According to The Gazette, students at Ahuntsic, Bois de Boulogne and Rosemont CEGEPs voted to go back to class. In all three cases the option to end the strike passed by large margins.

There was one exception as two departments at the Universite de Montreal voted to continue their strike. So far ten university student associations have voted to continue their strikes.

Democracy Watch insisted that changes should be made on Quebec`s political system regarding last elections low voter turnout.

According to Rabble, Democracy Watch stated that Premier Charest`s decision to hold the election on September 4 benefits nobody but himself.

Their reason for stating this is because early September is a time where most people are on holiday.

Democracy Watch feels that`s time for the Quebec government to establish fixed election dates in order to increase voters.

CNN's Candy Crowley is set to moderate one of four presidential debates in October, making her the first woman to do so in two decades.  

Written by Tom Lin, Jimmy Liao
Produced by Chen Kuo-fu, Wang Zhonglei
Cast Xu Jiao, Lin Hui-min, Harlem Yu, Kenneth Tsang

It was a busy weekend for Montreal police as 3 murders occurred in a little more than 24 hours could be related to street gangs.

According to the Gazette the leader of the Bo-Gars street gang was shot dead in a parking garage at Les Galeries d'Anjou on Friday evening. Several hours later a 42-year old man was shot and killed outside his Laval apartment building. The second victim is a cousin of a Bo-Gars associate.

On Saturday afternoon a man was found dead inside his penthouse apartment on Cote-des-Neiges road. He died from a gunshot to the upper-body.