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Quebec Tuition Hike

Quebec Tuition Hike Not Completely Avoided

CP | Andy Blatchford and Martin Ouellet, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.27.2013 | Canada Politics

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...

PQ Scrap Tuition Hike

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.20.2012 | Canada Politics

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

Soon-To-Be Premier A Big Hit With Student Groups

CBC | Posted 11.08.2012 | Canada Politics

Martine Desjardins, president of Quebec's university students association, says Pauline Marois' promise to cancel a tuition fee hike is a victory for ...

Student Group Promises Summer Of Protests After Talks Fail

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Frustrated after a breakdown in negotiations, thousands took to the streets of Montreal Saturday and promised a summer full of demonstratio...

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...

Bill 78 Hearing Moved To Friday

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 07.29.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - A legal challenge against Quebec's controversial protest law will now be heard Friday.The case was scheduled to proceed today but a spokesw...

Are Students Ready For A Tuition Compromise?

CBC | Posted 07.26.2012 | Canada Politics

The outgoing president of Quebec's College Student Federation (FECQ), Leo Bureau-Blouin, says students are "ready for a compromise" on tu...

Quebec Student Protesters Rallying With Ontario Neighbours

CP | Maria Babbage, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.25.2012 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - As a social crisis over tuition deepens in Quebec, students and unions in neighbouring Ontario are gearing up to join their counterparts by ...

Emergency Bill To Be Tabled Thursday Night

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 07.17.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - Threats of further student-related mayhem in Quebec have intensified with the government's intention to crack down on the protest movement by...

Masked Protesters Storm Quebec University

CP | Myles Dolphin, Canadian Press | Posted 05.16.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL -- Protesters stormed into a university, many of them with their faces covered by masks, and worked through the hallways Wednesday on the hu...

Masked Protesters Storm Quebec University

CP | Myles Dolphin, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.16.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Protesters stormed into a university, many of them with their faces covered by masks, moving through the hallways in a hunt for classes to ...

Charest Makes Protesting Students An Offer

CP | Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.27.2012 | Canada Politics

Jean Charest has offered to slightly soften the blow of controversial tuition hikes in a series of proposals with two aims in mind: calming his provin...

New University President SILENCED

CBC | Posted 06.25.2012 | Canada

A group of students stormed an event at Concordia University Tuesday, where the school's incoming president was to be introduced to the s...

Accessible Education: A Societal Choice

Sameer Zuberi | Posted 06.07.2012 | Canada
Sameer Zuberi

At stake is more than a mere tuition increase, but the very concept of accessible education. Do Quebecers want to maintain a proud tradition of accessible education? Or does the province want to limit opportunities so that only some can attend university and secure a promising future?

Student Protesters Clash With Riot Police In Quebec

CP | Peter Rakobowchuk, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.24.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Student demonstrators temporarily blocked access to a Montreal bridge amid protests over tuition-fee hikes Thursday, triggering a brief sho...