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Huffington Post Canada Student strikes begin to paralyze the education system and make the provincial government back down from proposed tuition increases.
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Education Minister Line Beauchamp is digging in her heels in the face of a fast-growing student strike that threatens to paralyze many educational institutions in the coming weeks. “No, no,” said Hélène Sauvageau, an aide to Beauchamp, “there is no plan to change the tuition increases. It’s being done to assure the quality of teaching here.” Read it on Global News: Global Montreal | Quebec tuition hikes will go ahead: Education Minister
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Over 200,000 people took to the streets of Montreal on March 22 to protest tuition increases, many of whom were students from universities across Quebec.
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"At this point, the students must understand that the biggest disturbance will be in their own lives," Beauchamp said in an interview with The Canadian Press. "Boycotting class will result in disrupting their lives. It could mean an extension of the session, makeup classes, possibly at night."
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Getting the attention of the media. About 150 chanting,
stomping students staged a brief yet noisy rally outside Charest's upscale Westmount home under the watchful eye of police and the curious gaze of several neighbors -
Students promise more distruptive protests. "There's going to a protest every day, if not a few a day," he says. "These protests will also be more disturbing." "This government only seems to understand the language of money, so that's the language we are going to speak to them."
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The Quebec government has offered what it hopes will be seen as an olive branch to the province's students. Education Minister Line Beauchamp said Sunday she's prepared work with a leading student group, the FEUQ, to set up an independent commission to manage university finances.
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Premier Jean Charest has denounced as totally unacceptable the refusal of some student leaders to firmly condemn the vandalism and social disruptions of the last few days. Charest said four of his Liberal MNAs woke up to find tanks of gasoline on their private property.
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Protesters clashed with riot police at Montreal's Palais des congrès for a second day as a job symposium for Quebec's northern plan was held inside under guard. Students joined Réseau de résistance du Québecois and aboriginal groups and students for the planned protest. Police using tear gas and sound grenades on rock-throwing protesters.
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The leaders of Quebec's CÉGEP and university student federations called off talks with the Liberal government, after it expelled the movement's most militant faction, CLASSE.
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Montreal police trying to keep up with disturbers of the peace, some of whom spent part of the day throwing "smoke bombs" in some very public places.
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Montreal Gazette The government’s proposal includes:
- Spreading the tuition increase over seven years instead of five.
- The addition of $39 million in bursaries.
- Loan payback schedules linked to income after graduation.
- Creation of a special council to oversee management of universities.
- Periodic evaluation of the impact tuition increases are having on students.
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Some Quebec students were baring it all – or close to it – in their anti-tuition fight.
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Student requires eye surgery after Que. protest. At least 3 police officers and 6 protesters injured.
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CBC The deal had been supported by student unions and major Quebec labor unions including the Quebec Federation of Labour, the Confédération des syndicats nationaux and by the Centrale des syndicats du Québec.
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CP24 Titled: "An Act to enable students to receive instruction from the postsecondary institutions they attend." Prohibits freedom of assembly, protest, or picketing on or near university grounds, and anywhere in Quebec without prior police approval.
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