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A Montreal teacher has been fired after  showing his Grade ten class the video believed to show the death and dismemberment of Jun Lin.

In a report by CBC News, the substitute teacher was informed of the schools board’s decision on Thursday one day after he was suspended with pay.

Students at Cavelier-de LaSalle high school voted in favour with three objecting to view the video on the morning of June fourth. A discussion about the video followed the viewing.

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Grand Prix weekend was marred with more student protests and increased police presence downtown.

In what police were calling “preventative measures,” thirty-six arrests were made at various metro stations across the island.

Of the thirty six, twenty eight people were eventually released.

Security officials say that the former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak has been slipping in and out of consciousness eight days after he was transferred to a hospital from the Cario prison. Mubarak was serving his life sentence.

Montreal police conducted an early morning raid on Thursday resulting in numerous arrests.

The arrests included Quebec Solidaire MNA Amir Khadir’s daughter. In a report by the Montreal Gazette, nineteen year old Yalda Machouf-Khadir was arrested at the family home at 6am.

She was wanted along with ten other people arrested on Thursday in connection with the vandalism of the riding office of Line Beauchamp on April twelfth. 

Los Angeles police contacted Montreal police regarding Luka Rocco Magnotta`s possible connection with the Hollywood Hills body parts murder.

According to CBC News, L.A Times indicated a California Law enforcement which denies Magnotta`s connection to the murder.

The severed feet, hands and head of the victim were discovered in Bronson Canyon Park in January.

The victim was identified as Hervey Medellin, who was a sixty-six year old retired Mexicana Airlines employee.

Wisconsin’s Republican governor survived a recall vote brought on by union leaders and public sector workers.

According to the BBC Republican Governor Scott Walker defeated Democratic challenger Tom Barrett by a margin of seven per cent.  He is the first elected governor to survive a recall vote in U.S history.

Toronto police have a man in custody less than two days after a shooting occurred in Toronto's Eaton Centre's food court on Saturday.

According to the globe and mail, the man turned himself in early Monday morning. He escaped the scene despite the presence of many bystanders and police officers.

Police said on Sunday that numerous security cameras around the crime scene captured images of the suspect.

The suspect in the dismembering case that’s shocking people worldwide may have been spotted in a Paris district over the weekend.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, twenty-nine years old, is at the center of a global manhunt for the murder and dismemberment of Jun Lin, an international exchange student at Concordia.

A state of emergency in place in Egypt with interruption has expired.

In a report by the BBC, the state of emergency was put in place when then President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981.

The terms under the state of emergency included the right to detain people indefinitely without charge, prohibit protests and censor the media.

The search for Luka Rocco Magnotta, who is the suspect involved in dismembering a victim has become international.

According to CBC News, Montreal police have stated that the search becoming international will make it easier to catch him.

Police believe that Magnotta was romantically involved with the victim who was a man in his thirties.

After the murder the body parts were found in a suitcase near Magnotta`s apartment and sent through mail.

Two human body parts mailed to different address in Ottawa on Tuesday were from the same point of origin.

According to CBC News the body parts in question were a foot sent to Conservative headquarters and a hand found at a Canada Post terminal.