{"id":8834,"date":"2012-03-22T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T00:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2012-03-22T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T00:16:30","slug":"quebec-students-flood-montreal-in-march-against-tuition-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/quebec-students-flood-montreal-in-march-against-tuition-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Students Flood Montreal in March Against Tuition Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8835\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/Photos+Mass+student+march+Montreal\/6343263\/story.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8835\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8835\" title=\"Montreal 3-22-12\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2012\/03\/Montreal-3-22-12-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2012\/03\/Montreal-3-22-12-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2012\/03\/Montreal-3-22-12.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dave Sidaway, The Gazette<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Historically, at least over the last fifty years, Quebec students have been immensely successful in checking the powers of government and universities from unilaterally raising tuition and other expenses for higher education. \u00a0Large, focused, unified, and sustained protests by Quebec students over the years have been influential in keeping tuitions among the lowest in Canada. \u00a0Knowing this, there is no way the students will back down from this latest and increasingly vocal series of small resistances and large demonstrations, protests, and strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Today in Montreal, &#8220;tens of thousands of activists filled Montreal&#8217;s downtown core Thursday to protest tuition increases.\u00a0Students demonstrating Thursday in Montreal and across the province, say higher fees mean higher debt for them and their parents.\u00a0The protesters reject the government&#8217;s position that student aid, offered to about 35 per cent of students and based on a system of loans, will ease the debt burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/Thousands+students+protest+tuition+increases+Montreal\/6342421\/story.html#ixzz1ptSNThPi\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Gazette\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, at least over the last fifty years, Quebec students have been immensely successful in checking the powers of government and universities from unilaterally raising tuition and other expenses for higher education. \u00a0Large, focused, unified, and sustained protests by Quebec &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/quebec-students-flood-montreal-in-march-against-tuition-hikes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2249,635,2266,5038,2273],"tags":[1288954,1288961],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-government","category-protests","category-student-movement","category-students","tag-protests","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8837,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}