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Olympic Bid Imperiled?

CP | Martin Ouellet, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.22.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - The president of the International Olympic Committee diplomatically sidestepped the question Tuesday of whether student strife in Quebec coul...

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. ...

Quebec's Emergency Law Stokes The Fire

CBC | Posted 07.19.2012 | Canada Politics

The adoption of emergency legislation to end Quebec's escalating student crisis stoked fiery debate across the province overnight, from h...

Students Slam Law, Call For New Talks

CBC | Posted 07.17.2012 | Canada

Quebec's legislature has gathered for a late-night debate on emergency education legislation Thursday night, as student protests were hel...

Emergency Law In Quebec As Semester Canceled

CP | Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.16.2012 | Canada

The Quebec government has announced plans to suspend the current academic session for striking students in an attempt to restore order in a province p...

Why Learn, When You Can Protest?

Daniel Alexandre Portoraro | Posted 07.16.2012 | Canada Politics
Daniel Alexandre Portoraro

The sorry fact of the matter is that with only one third of students in Quebec left on strike, we should hope these vandals would stay out of university. After all, that would increase the likelihood of actual students finding employment after graduation. Students who instead of donning cowardly, immature masks, actually want to be working.

Line Beauchamp Acts Like a Grown-Up. Why Won't the Students?

Supriya Dwivedi | Posted 07.15.2012 | Canada Politics
Supriya Dwivedi

On Wednesday, Quebec's education minister resigned claiming she was no longer helping to solve the problems. Her admission is honest, introspective and poignant, but above all, it is something an adult would do. Conversely, as the protests continue, violence and vandalism has become increasingly commonplace as protesters become ever more uncompromising and antagonistic.

Meet The New Education Minister

CBC | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec's new education minister, Michelle Courchesne, has called representatives of student groups and post-secondary institutions to two...

Heavy-Handed Police Contributing To The Problem?

CP | Nelson Wyatt, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.07.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - Some people are lashing out at Quebec police in the wake of violent confrontations in which several protesters were injured, including one ...

Why the Media Hate-On for Quebec Students?

J.J. McCullough | Posted 07.02.2012 | Canada
J.J. McCullough

2012-04-27-mediabitesreal.jpgTwo quiet professors in yesterday's Globe and Mail drew upon that rarest resource in opinion writing (actual evidence). They noted one of the great unspoken truths about post-secondary education in Canada: the leading variable determining whether kids attend university or not is usually cultural pressure within one's social class -- not cost. For some reason, asking university-educated journalists to analyze politically active university students rarely yields these sorts of conclusions, however.

Student Leaders Heckled By More Students

CP | Posted 07.01.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - Divisions in Quebec's protest movement erupted into public view Tuesday, with masked demonstrators disrupting a news conference held by the...

Jean Charest: Robbing From the Young to Give to the Old

Nora Loreto | Posted 07.01.2012 | Canada Politics
Nora Loreto

In real dollars, Quebec's Premier paid less for his university education than Québec students do today. Now, he wants his generation of baby boomers to pay less in taxes. The result is robbery of the young to pay for the old. It is hard to see how students are the entitled ones in this scenario.

Montreal Student Protest March Declared Illegal

CBC | Posted 06.26.2012 | Canada

Montreal police declared a march by protesting students illegal, less than an hour after the demonstration began Thursday night. ...

"Maple Spring?" Seriously, Students?!

Supriya Dwivedi | Posted 06.26.2012 | Canada
Supriya Dwivedi

Once again, the boycotting students took to the streets of Montreal last night in protest of tuition hikes. Once again, Montrealers are subject to broken glass and a shattered downtown core. And once again, the student leaders of the organization refuse to take any responsibility or action for what they have unleashed on our beautiful city.

While You Protest, I'm Going to Class

Supriya Dwivedi | Posted 06.04.2012 | Canada
Supriya Dwivedi

During this past Thursday's protests about tuition fees, Montreal's students found another foe worthy of their vociferous appeals to the masses: student scabs, who they claimed did not have the right to cross picket lines and go to classes. The protesters may indeed have 99 legitimate problems, but just to be clear, a scab isn't one.