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Classes Shuttered In Montreal

CBC | Posted 10.28.2012 | Canada

The University of Montreal has suspended classes in the departments that have been targeted by student protesters since Monday, when a winter make-up ...

Student Strike OVER At Quebec Colleges

CBC | Posted 10.17.2012 | Canada Politics

After months of boycott, students at every Quebec CEGEPs will be resuming classes. Friday afternoon, students at CEGEP du Vieux Montréal ...

Quebec Students Getting Reinforcements?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - The more hardcore Quebec student activists say they will receive help from outside the province as they form picket lines to block the retu...

Only Select Media Welcome At Crucial Student Vote

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.07.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - A group of Quebec students voting on whether to return to school, a decision that could hold far-reaching political consequences, is limiti...

Big Week Ahead For Quebec

CP | Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.05.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Quebec's student strikes, which gained international attention in the spring, now face a pivotal week as students start voting on whether t...

Will They Boycott More Classes?

CBC | Posted 10.04.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec student coalition CLASSE will hold several general assemblies starting next week to decide whether to resume boycotting college and university ...

Quebec Student Group Outlines New Manifesto

CBC | Posted 09.14.2012 | Canada Politics

CLASSE, the more militant group taking part in the Quebec student protest, affirmed it will be mobilizing students against "neo-liberal" politics if a...

'Preventive Arrests'

CBC | Posted 08.11.2012 | Canada

Montreal police are defending a series of "preventive arrests" over the weekend after student groups and civil rights activists accused t...

Montreal Police Accused Of Political Profiling

CP | Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.11.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Montreal police are being accused of political profiling — of searching and detaining people wearing the red square, the symbol of Quebec...

Charest is no Putin. Poutine, Maybe.

Henry Mintzberg | Posted 08.08.2012 | Canada
Henry Mintzberg

How ironic that the most extensive demonstrations we have seen to date in North America have concerned not unemployment, global warming, or the notorious one per cent, but the tuition that Quebec students have to pay for the benefits of a college education. Now two professors at the University of Montreal have likened Quebec to Putin's Russia.

Is The End Nigh?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 07.29.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Negotiations between students and the provincial government will resume Thursday after students left a third night of talks saying the gove...

Emergency Law A Major Bust : Opposition

CBC | Posted 07.22.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec's opposition parties have taken aim at the Charest government for failing to restore order in the streets of Montreal, charging th...

A Timeline Of The Student Protest

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 07.22.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - A timeline of events in the tuition dispute between the Quebec government and student federations, which has sparked 100 days of unrest in ...

Students Vow To Fight Bill 78 In Streets.. And Court

CBC | Posted 07.21.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec student group CLASSE says it is ready to defy the province's controversial protest law, regardless of legal consequences. ...

Student Group Rejects Charest's Offer

CP | Posted 06.29.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - One of Quebec's most powerful student groups has shot down Premier Jean Charest's revised offer on tuition fees.The C.L.A.S.S.E. student fe...

Students Walk Out On Talks

CBC | Posted 06.25.2012 | Canada

Demonstrators and police clashed in downtown Montreal Wednesday after student group leaders abandoned talks with Quebec's education minis...