Supporting community action and conserving the land around Lake Massawippi are the two objectives at the heart of a new foundation based in the Eastern Townships.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Sherbrooke last Friday to announce a new federal income support program that will offer parents of murdered or missing children financial aid of $350 a week for up to 35 weeks as they take time off of work to recover from their loss.

The United-States is the best it has ever been in terms of civil rights, but there remains a serious battle to be fought in terms of financial inequality and poverty, according to renowned American civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson. "We are far more civil now than we have ever been.

The number of city councillors in Sherbrooke is staying at 19 and sports and leisure services are remaining a borough responsibility. The work of the group of nine as well as the pleas of dozens of citizens at the public consultations and at Monday night's council meeting paid dividends as the CSAM resolutions both failed to pass through council.

They were present for the first vote, present at the consultations, and present throughout the community. The Lennoxville Residents Association, now approximately 1,200 members strong, made their feelings known one final time before the second vote on the CSAM resolutions Monday night, attending in force and reiterating that their supporters were not behind any centralization of services or reduction of councillors.

The interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada Bob Rae visited students at the Université de Sherbrooke Tuesday and encouraged them to become members of the party, emphasizing the important role of youth delegates and young people for the Liberals, and for federal politics as a whole.