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Delhi News-Record
| 1 year ago
Things are right back where they started in the three-month Quebec student strike. One school after another rejected a government proposal aimed at softening the effects of a seven-year, $1,800 tuition hike. It's a major blow to Premier Jean Charest,...
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The Globe and Mail
| 1 year ago
A few hundred demonstrators walk to a hotel Saturday, May 5, 2012 where the Quebec Liberal Party is meeting in Victoriaville, Quebec...PM EDT The Quebec student strike has been portrayed largely as an issue gripping only that province. Yet a survey...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Video Video Video The average price of a house in Toronto back in 1984 was just over $96,000. I wasn't buying just then, but it's worth noting that the average family after-tax income back then was close $50,000...I had it easier than today's...
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Delhi News-Record
| 1 year ago
A simple apology would have saved taxpayers more than $1 million in legal fees and damages after Radio-Canada lost a defamation suit against a Quebec filmmaker in 2008...Fournier and producer Marie-Jose Raymond sued Clement and the state broadcaster...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
A mere 12 hours after the streets of Victoriaville were filled with rioting protesters, flying rocks and rolling clouds of tear gas, life in the small town east of Montreal was slowly returning to normal on Saturday morning. Police officers and...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
What began as a peaceful and well-organized demonstration in Victoriaville, Que., on Friday evening quickly degenerated into a chaotic scene as hundreds of protesters clashed with police for more than two hours in the small town just east of Montreal.
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
EDT A vicious clash between protesters and police hit the small Quebec town of Victoriaville Friday. Protesters hurled smoke bombs at riot police as they demonstrated outside the Quebec Liberal Party convention More videos in:
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Delhi News-Record
| 1 year ago
Riot police clashed with protesters Friday night after more than 2,000 people some of them masked and dressed in back turned up to protest the Quebec Liberal Party's policy convention in a quiet town north of Montreal on Friday. Cops blamed a handful...
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The Globe and Mail
| 1 year ago
Video Video Video Some protesters threw rocks and pelted the police with debris...I think it only makes matters worse, said Jehu Hernandez, a delegate from Montreal. I find this outrageous, said Transport Minister Pierre Moreau...Premier Jean Charest...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
It wasn't long after students descended on Victoriaville, Que., on Friday, that rocks and other projectiles were being thrown at police who responded with tear gas cans and warnings to disperse. At least two people were injured, one with a lacerated...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Quebec Premier Jean Charest and provincial Education Minister Line Beauchamp on Friday presented a six-point plan to end an 11-week student strike that has imperilled the academic year of about 180,000 Quebec students. But the student associations...
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The Globe and Mail
| 1 year ago
Student leaders are being convened to Quebec City for an emergency meeting with the provincial government. The meeting has been called this afternoon with the province's student unrest into its third month, and the semester at risk of being cancelled.
