{"id":8925,"date":"2012-04-10T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T02:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8925"},"modified":"2012-04-10T18:26:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T02:26:52","slug":"quebec-student-strike-intensifies-longest-in-province-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/04\/quebec-student-strike-intensifies-longest-in-province-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Student Strike Intensifies, Longest in Province History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Peter McCabe, The Gazette<\/p><\/div>\n

The Quebec student strike is now in its eighth week and has\u00a0gathered nearly half the higher education population in the province. \u00a0There are about 185,000 students on strike out of 400,000. “About 90,000 of them have agreed to an unlimited strike that won’t end until the government rescinds its plan for a $1,625 tuition increase over five years.” The students have sustained a series of demonstrations, protests, and strikes against the tuition hike. \u00a0Monday April 9 saw mass demonstrations and “Wednesday will be another big day for protesting students as they launch a 12-hour-long demonstration that will begin at 7 a.m. at Victoria Square.\u00a0The “unlimited protest” is supposed to show the students’ unlimited resolve in the face of tuition increases and the Quebec government’s unwavering stance on the issue. A continual loop of students will take turns marching for an hour at a time throughout the day.”<\/p>\n

Today, the resolve of striking students at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al was tested, “as the university sent out an email last week saying if students aren\u2019t back in class by then, they can\u2019t guarantee that all courses can be completed by June 15, the end of the extended semester. That means some classes could simply be suspended, as the university asserts there will be \u201cno compromise\u201d on the quality of the education.”<\/p>\n

Read more: Montreal Gazette<\/em> Story 1<\/a> and Story 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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