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B.C. students will gather March 16 in what is expected to be the biggest student rally in the province’s history.

Only two days after a leadership change in the provincial government, as many as 1,000 students, and possibly more, will arrive at the provincial legislature to protest rising debt and declining funding, according to the Martlet.

Omar Khadr, through the help of his lawyer and a Canadian university professor, is receiving an education while in prison in Guantanamo Bay.

The 24-year-old, who was born in Toronto, has been in the American detention camp since his 2002 capture in Afghanistan, and recently pleaded guilty to charges which will see him serve seven of his eight year sentence in Canada.  

The process of his education began after Khadr “showed a great desire to be educated,” his Canadian lawyer, Dennis Edney, said.

Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) students were shocked this past week by a stabbing incident that occurred between two male students on the afternoon of March 9.

Jeff Fifield, an investigation officer with MUN, said the stabbing was an isolated incident that doesn’t reflect university safety.

“It wasn’t something that was planned,” Fifield said about the confrontation. “This campus is one of the safest universities anywhere. Incidents like these are not an everyday occurrence.”

Animal rights activists say the University of British Columbia-Okanagan is hiding the fact that the university is opening a new medical research facility next September, a move the university says isn’t uncommon.