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Nearly nude students take to Montreal’s streets to protest tuition hike
MONTREAL — Striking students stripped down to their birthday suits and an astonishing array of red underwear to protest, yet again, against Quebec’s proposed tuition hikes. The students gathered...
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Government endorses bill to unmask rioters
OTTAWA — The federal government has decided to throw its weight behind a private member’s bill that would make it a crime to wear a disguise while taking part in a riot. The bill, tabled by Alberta...
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Quebec students reject tuition-hike proposal in early voting
MONTREAL — The first student reaction on Monday to a proposed agreement to end the three-month strike has been cool, with four associations rejecting the offer on Monday and voting to continue their...
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Tuition agreement with Quebec schools doomed, early votes show
MONTREAL — Voting results on Quebec’s tentative agreement on increasing university tuition stand at 3,200 for — and 83,250 against, results likely to prolong the three-month crisis. That’s the latest...
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Smoke bombs cripple Montreal subway system during morning rush hour
MONTREAL — A co-ordinated smoke-bomb attack crippled Montreal’s subway system Thursday, cutting off service and creating a nightmarish morning commute. Bombs were tossed onto the tracks during rush...
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Montreal subway smoke bomb suspects facing multiple charges
MONTREAL — Four suspects will be charged with committing a terrorism-related prank following smoke-bomb attacks that crippled the Montreal subway system Thursday. The suspects, one man and three women,...
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Where are the grown-ups in the Montreal student strike? Check the front lines
MONTREAL — With scenes of student unrest in the streets of Quebec, one might be tempted to ask: Where are the grown-ups? In some cases, they’re right there with the students — on the front lines....
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Fire, arrests and a Rolling Stone: Quebec student protests get international...
MONTREAL — A plan to restore order in Montreal appeared to erupt in smoke late Saturday, with fiery blockades blazing on a busy downtown street corner in a dispute gaining international attention....
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Quebec’s largest student group vows to defy government’s new emergency law
MONTREAL — Quebec’s largest student group has vowed to defy the Quebec government’s new emergency law, calling for a summer of protests and acts of civil disobedience. C.L.A.S.S.E., the more radical of...
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Union cash flowing into Quebec to fund prolonged student protests
MONTREAL — Out-of-province money is rolling in for Quebec student activists amid warnings their protest movement could persist into the summer. Trade unions based outside Quebec have already confirmed...
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Union cash flowing to Quebec student groups to fund protest, now in its 100th...
MONTREAL — Out-of-province money is flowing toward Quebec student activists amid warnings their protest movement could persist into the summer. Trade unions based outside Quebec have already confirmed...
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Quebec student protest reaches 40 days in a row
MONTREAL — Despite scattered showers, several thousand people marched through the streets of Montreal Saturday afternoon to voice their anger with the Charest government over its handling of the...
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Quebec students take to the streets with anti-Liberal message as election looms
MONTREAL — Thousands of students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal on Sunday to denounce the province’s tuition increases, sending a message they will be ready for a fight if Premier...
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New Quebec political party, led by Francois Legault, suggests middle ground...
MONTREAL — The latest proposal to end Quebec’s student conflict comes from a new political party hoping to vie for power in an election campaign expected to start this week. The Coalition For Quebec’s...
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Student protesters target Quebec Liberals as provincial election kicks off
Charest hangs his re-election hopes on a ‘silent majority’ With about 30 candidates behind him baking in the midday sun Wednesday, Jean Charest repeatedly invoked the “silent majority” that he says...
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Classes resume at many Quebec junior colleges … but will the students break...
Quebec students at several junior colleges have begun the return to class today under the provisions of a special law imposed by the Charest government. It’s unclear how smoothly the return will go....
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Police and protesters clash over back-to-school law as students return to...
MONTREAL — Quebec’s controversial back-to-school law was wielded for the first time ever by Montreal police after showdowns involving masked protesters disrupted the reopening of universities Monday....
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Locked out Quebec students file class action lawsuit over (student) strikes
MONTREAL — A class-action lawsuit is being organized by young Quebecers frustrated because they say they were hurt by the province’s student strikes. The motion to sue 25 universities and junior...
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One year after its ‘Maple Spring,’ Quebec hosts long awaited tuition summit
MONTREAL — Not even the most militant of Quebec’s student federations expects this week’s education summit to plunge the province into another Maple Spring. Quebec gained international attention last...
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Student protesters, police clash in Montreal streets after Marois praises...
MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has declared that the unrest related to student protests is over in her province, one year and one week after it began. Later in the day, police and protesters...
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