As 180,000 students continue their 12-week strike against tuition increases, and police respond with concussion grenades, pepper spray, batons, kettling and mass arrests, Quebec’s major city is becoming ungovernable.
What was a fairly routine student s…

Asked by an Anglophone journalist what the Québec student struggle means for the ROC, this is what I had to say.read more

La forme du débat Sarkozy-Hollande a été désappointante. Elle aurait dû permettre à chacun des participants de dire ce qu’il avait à dire pour mieux éclairer l’électorat sur sa personne et son programme.Les animateurs de ce débat n’ont …

Broad coalition of the Association for a student union solidarity (CLASS) has offered a few ideas to eliminate tuition in Quebec by 2016. They say they have a plan to pay for the increase by:
1. Transfer 142-284 million in research spending t…

Broad coalition of the Association for a student union solidarity (CLASS) has offered a few ideas to eliminate tuition in Quebec by 2016. They say they have a plan to pay for the increase by: 1. Transfer 142-284 million in research spending t…

Asked by an anglophone journalist what the Québec students struggle means for the ROC, this is what I had to say. http://cutvmontreal.ca/videos/1102 I’m was among a varied group of people who published a declaration tuesday, on May day, in support of the student movement. One of the main themes of our message was to link [...]

Margaret Wente hits it out of the park with this article. There are a lot of kids who shouldn’t be in university. Many of them will graduate and not have jobs in their field. I love how Wente calls it victim stydies( like I do)

In fact, Quebec’s s…

Tune in live to CUTV (Concordia University TV) in Montreal as they report on May Day actions, and the ongoing struggle for the future of education in Quebec. NOTE: If the channel below is not streaming, watch the livestream at: http://www.cutvmontreal….

Don Macpherson has a great article on who pays taxes to keep the broken socialist Quebec model limping along. Apparently only half of Quebeckers pay income tax. So half of Quebec’s population doesn’t care if taxes go up and they keep demanding more.
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But compromise could be near

The opposition between the government and an important social movement like the student movement is reminiscent of a game of chess. Two organizations face off, each unravelling complex strategies both to confound their adversary and to reach their obje…

On May 9 2011, the Charest government presented its Plan Nord. Its objective is to revitalize the economy north of the 49th parallel. This plan relies on natural resource extraction to breathe new life into the entire province’s economy. To do so, it i…

Too many years of good rains and bountiful harvests have made the members fat and idle. They’ve lost the memory of droughts and hungry winters and with it, the wisdom to save the grain and salt the fish. They mock the wise ones who know the sky and th…

Please find, below, a handful of links to the few reports in English that fairly portray the current situation in Quebec concerning protests against proposed post-secondary education tuition hikes. Unfortunately, the English-language press has not done…

In the context of student protests over Quebec tuition fees, my friend Luan Ngo has just written a very informative blog post on Quebec’s fiscal situation. While I encourage readers to read his full post, I do want to use the present space to make mention of three important points he makes: -On a per [...]

Rex is exactly right.

Whatever justification the foolishly called student “strike” in Montreal may have had — and I’m inclined to believe it was precious little — it now has none, absolutely none.

Serious protests, involving grave issues, …

A rather depressing, but realistic piece about Anglos in Quebec. He is right that voting liberal is a bad idea. The ADQ was a possibility, but the CAQ has the same attitude towards Anglos as the pq.

Opinion: A reality check on the language front

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A recent article by Stefani Forster, of the Canadian Press, suggests that the Quebec student protests may be starting a larger social movement outside of Quebec. According to the article: In the last few days, Quebec’s student protests have received coverage in French news outlets like Le Monde and Agence France-Presse, in Australia, in New [...]

Simon Tremblay-Pepin, an emerging social policy scholar, has recently blogged here (in French) about Quebec tuition fees. He points out that, when one adjusts for inflation, Quebec tuition fees are headed into uncharted territory. Indeed, contrary to some recent spin from the Charest government, Tremblay-Pepin makes two important observations: 1. When one takes an average [...]

Clips from JournalismStrategies.ca panel “Where to from Here?” Thursday April 19, 2012. Judy Rebick (rabble.ca) and Kai Nagata (The Tyee) discuss Canadian Anglophone coverage of the ongoing student protests in Quebec.