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Cameron Fenton: B.C. Election 2013: No Such Thing as a Young Voter

2013-04-03T15:30:20Z

Where politicians and pundits are right is that there is more political power in our generation than even we realize. Organizations, social movements and politicians lusting after "young voters" is actually making the problem worse. The narrowing of electoral participation as a direct translation to political action has led us to miss the forest for the trees, a forest that in Canada is probably being threatened to be clear cut, plowed for a pipeline, or removed to make way for a new mine -- and that's a big, big problem.

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Anniversary Protest Quickly Broken Up

2013-03-22T20:21:56Z

MONTREAL - A march to mark an anniversary in Quebec's protest movement was swiftly broken up Friday by a police force that has shown increasing strict...

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Minotaurs' Nathan Lawr Talks Political Music, Street Protests And Why Obama Is Barely Better Than Romney

2013-03-11T08:53:12Z

In the Minotaurs press shot, the sprawling afrobeat band born in Guelph, Ontario is crowded towards camera, decked out in army green and facial hair ...

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Maripier Isabelle: Tuition Fees: When the PQ's Problems Seemed So Far Away

2013-03-11T16:48:03Z

Yesterday...
All my troubles seemed so far away...

Those might be the words going round the head of Premier Pauline Marois and her minister for hig...

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Kokulan Mahendiran: Open Letter to Pauline Marois, Premier of Quebec

2013-03-06T18:27:57Z

Dear Premier Marois,

Speaking at the infamous Summit on Higher Education you held last month, McGill Principal Heather Munroe-Blum warned, "The quali...

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Supriya Dwivedi: Will Montreal Students Live Happily Ever After?

2013-03-06T17:44:40Z

After the second protest in the last two weeks following a provincial summit on higher education, everything about Montreal's current spring weather seemed to have year-old Maple Spring undertones to it, including violence, arrests and injuries. The plight of student debt, post graduation underemployment, and rising housing costs are all unarguably quite legitimate burdens faced by my generation. Will free tuition as demanded by the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) and its followers solve these zeitgeist conundrums? Unlikely.

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Overnight Protest Ends In 50 Arrests

2013-03-06T04:00:14Z

MONTREAL - Premier Pauline Marois has called for calm as another nighttime student protest march is announced, this time in the provincial capital.The...

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(Maple) Spring Is In The Air

2013-03-05T20:43:34Z

MONTREAL - Montreal police donned riot gear and moved in to make at least 50 arrests after an initially peaceful demonstration by Quebec students prot...

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They're Back

2013-02-26T15:26:06Z

Montreal police say ten people were arrested for assaulting police officers during a protest in Montreal against the Quebec government's decision to i...

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Quebec Tuition Hike Not Completely Avoided

2013-02-25T20:45:28Z

MONTREAL - Quebec students who staged a memorable series of protests last spring could see their efforts result in a roughly 80 per cent discount on p...

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Quebec Student Groups Go Head-To-Head With Government

2013-02-10T18:24:31Z

DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - Quebec student groups didn't get along well with the province's Liberal government — and now things don't seem too rosy with t...

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Alison Loat: Best Moment in Canadian Democracy: 2012

2013-01-14T12:24:02Z

Just before the New Year, Samara asked for nominations for the Best Moment in Canadian Democracy in 2012. Despite the cynicism that we all feel from time to time, these five serve as important reminders that there are democratic mechanisms at our disposal, and that despite Canada's imperfections we are lucky to live here.

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Danielle S. McLaughlin: We Should Be Proud of Pint-Sized Protestors

2012-12-29T09:26:30Z

Recently, I heard a Grade 6 student explain that he and his friends had walked out of school to protest against a government measure that they believed had resulted in their teachers' rights being taken away. The principal was not impressed. I think we should be very impressed.

What are our children in Canada seeing in the streets of our cities and towns? Idle No More, Occupy, protests in Ontario and Quebec by teachers and students -- and remember the G-20 protests in Toronto in 2010? While some of us looked the other way, the children are still watching.

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Rick Ayers: Education Struggles Aflame Across the Hemisphere

2012-09-25T19:39:20Z

There have been protests across the country over these developments and now we face the increasing prospect of massive government loan default from people who can't pay their way out of debt in the stalled economy.

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PQ Scrap Tuition Hike

2012-09-20T15:22:55Z

QUEBEC - The tuition increase that triggered such social strife in Quebec was cancelled Thursday during an action-packed first full day in office for ...

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Samuel Getachew: Canadians Love the NDP For What It Is Not

2012-09-13T15:30:25Z

The latest Angus-Reid survey reflects an unexpected continued surge for the New Democrats across the country. From British Columbia and Newfoundland, where the party has never elected an NDP government, it is on the verge of electing itself for the very first time. This is a very surprising reality for Canadians as the NDP is becoming more mute on important issues and concentrates all power within its leader while neglecting the voices of its large caucus.

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5 Reasons You Should Care About Quebec's Election

2012-09-01T09:17:22Z

When the Quebec election was called at the beginning of August, it was in the shadow of protests by students caught in their own war over tuition, and...

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'This Isn't About Who Is The Most Macho'

2012-08-30T13:29:02Z

Jean Charest cancelled a campaign event when a couple of dozen peaceful protesters showed up Wednesday evening in his home riding of Sherbrooke, Que. ...

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You'll Be Hearing From Their Lawyers

2012-08-30T12:56:17Z

MONTREAL - A class-action lawsuit is being organized by young Quebecers frustrated because they say they were hurt by the province's student strikes.T...

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Classes Shuttered In Montreal

2012-08-29T00:50:27Z

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

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Protesters Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting Officers In Montreal

2012-08-28T10:29:01Z

MONTREAL - Police were laying numerous criminal charges in a second day of confrontation with student protesters following the reopening of Quebec's u...

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Students Defy Back-To-School Law

2012-08-27T09:24:15Z

MONTREAL - Quebec's controversial back-to-school law was wielded for the first time ever by Montreal police after showdowns involving masked protester...

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Quebec Student Protests Resurface Amid Election Campaign

2012-08-22T16:20:16Z

MONTREAL - Student protests made a reappearance in the Quebec election Wednesday after having dropped off the radar in the campaign's first weeks.Thou...

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David Gratzer: Back to School for Striking Quebec Students -- But Not Back to Democracy

2012-08-20T08:27:07Z

The student protests shut down Quebec higher education, gained international attention and shook that province's politics. By all accounts, the democratic protests were highly successful at gaining attention.There's only one catch: the protests were anything but democratic.

Indeed, it would have been illegal for any labour union in the country to conduct itself the way the student union leadership did. The next Quebec government needs to democratize the student associations. If they want the right to strike like regular labour unions, shouldn't they be held to the same basic democratic standards?

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Student Strike OVER At Quebec Colleges

2012-08-17T18:20:50Z

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

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