June 2012
201 posts
3 tags
Decrease in tourism not fully explained by...
Nathaëlle Morissette June 14, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/201206/14/01-4534757-baisse-du-tourisme-les-manifestations-nexpliquent-pas-tout.php
The student crisis cannot be held fully responsible for the decrease in performance for Montreal hoteliers in May. Compared to 2011, the city has hosted 7,300 fewer conference-goers. However,...
3 tags
CLASSE denounces police and government...
Original French Text: http://www.bloquonslahausse.com/2012/06/la-classe-denonce-lintimidation-policiere-et-gouvernementale/ Montreal, June 13, 2012 – The Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE) denounces what it considers to be a strategy of intimidation on the part of the police forces and the government. In effect, the cases of preventative arrests, of...
5 tags
User-Payer at the heart of the student conflict...
Jérôme Lussier June 4, 2012
Original French Text: http://voir.ca/brasse-camarade/2012/06/04/lutilisateur-payeur-au-coeur-du-conflit-etudiant/
It has been clear for months but last week confirmed it: the student crisis is an ideological conflict. The tuition fee increase serves as a pretext. The profound war aims at the user-payer principle.
The realistic negotiation that should...
5 tags
The sickening Belle Province (Voir)
Marc-André Cyr June 12, 2012
Original French Text: http://voir.ca/marc-andre-cyr/2012/06/12/vomir-la-belle-province/
« Fear of all shapes susceptible of setting off a transformative love. Blue fear – red fear – white fear : link of our chain »
– Refus Global,...
4 tags
June 22 events in Montreal & Quebec City
Event: March against the student-fee hike By : CLASSE Date : June 22nd, 2pm to 5pm Location : Place du Canada, Montreal
Description : On June 22nd, let’s walk together in protest against the student-fee hike and Bill 78. The Coalition large de l’ASSÉ (CLASSE) invites all Quebeckers to join us and march in the streets of Montreal. We must all stand together against...
5 tags
The world upside down (Le Devoir)
Response to Pierre Dubuc and Marc Laviolette
Benoit Renaud – Gatineau teacher, member of the national coordinating committee of Québec solidaire
June 12, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/352176/titre
Having evidently crossed over to the other side of Alice’s looking glass and entered the upside-down world of wonderland, Mr. Dubuc and Mr....
9 tags
Opinion Piece – Why Was I Arrested? (Le Devoir)
Julie Théorêt June 12, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/justice/352188/pourquoi-m-a-t-on-arretee
Sunday, I took the subway with a friend to Île Sainte-Hélène. We arrived around 10:40AM. There were a lot of police at the Berri-UQAM station, but we told ourselves that because of the F1, that was normal.
We wanted to picnic near Place de la Fontaine or go to La...
7 tags
A Five-Cent Theory (La Presse)
Patrick Lagacé June 14, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/chroniques/patrick-lagace/201206/14/01-4534781-une-theorie-a-cinq-sous.php
The further we settle in to this maple spring that’s slowly turning to vinegar, the more I feel I understand how entire societies can be sucked into heinous spirals. I understand more and more how a the Irish, Palestinians, and Israelis...
9 tags
The absurdity of the conflict in 6 points...
Alexandre Champagne June 11, 2012
Original French Text: http://urbania.ca/blog/3150/labsurdite-du-conflit-en-6-points
I am a big fan of absurd things. Humor, moments, people, places, stories. My first reaction facing the things raised by this phenomenon is to laugh. However, for some time the absurdity that rages in the social crisis we are presently experiencing doesn’t make me want to laugh...
6 tags
Elections against a backdrop of crisis: Jean...
MONTREAL, 13 June 2012 /CNW Telbec
Original French Text: http://www.newswire.ca/fr/story/992415/elections-sur-fond-de-crise-jean-charest-fait-de-la-petite-politique-sur-le-dos-des-etudiants
With the Quebec Liberal Party’s electoral strategy revealed publicly today, the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ) is astounded to learn that the Liberals have been using the deterioration...
11 tags
Politics, police, and protests (La Presse)
Vincent Marissal 14 June 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/chroniques/vincent-marissal/201206/14/01-4534743-politique-police-et-manifs.php
I was talking to Carl Vallée, press attaché for Stephen Harper, in the hall of the Hilton Bonaventure, where Harper had just given a speech, when an officer of the Montreal City Police (Service de police de la ville de Montréal,...
7 tags
The rejoinder > from casseroles to voting booths -...
Françoise David, Amir Khadir - Spokesperson of Quebec solidaire
June 14, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/352379/le-declencheur
PHOTO CAPTION: According to Amir Khadir and Françoise David, no alliance is possible without a common vision of the recent months’ social crisis and of its potential for profound and lasting change.
Of Note:
The trigger
...
7 tags
Violence and Intimidation (La Presse)
Marc Cassivi June 12, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/chroniques/marc-cassivi/201206/12/01-4533962-la-violence-et-lintimidation.php
You can be left or right. You can be for or against an increase in tuition fees. You can believe that the ways in which Bill 78 restricts fundamental rights and freedoms are justifiable in a free and democratic society.
But when you...
12 tags
$866,000 to justify the tuition hike (TVA)
By Rémi Nadeau (Agence QMI) 13 June 2012
Original French text: http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2012/06/20120613-210238.html
The Charest government has spent $866,000 to promote its position on tuition fees in a large-scale publicity campaign.
The Parti Québécois (PQ) has vigorously attacked the minister for Education, Michelle Courchesne, accusing her of having wasted...
9 tags
The Police Overtime Swindle (Huffington Post...
Me Claude Laferrière, Lawyer June 11, 2012 Original French Text: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/me-claude-laferri%C3%A8re/arnaque-temps-supplementaire-police_b_1585323.html
Québec taxpayers are being treated like cash cows or, at best, taken for patsies. Now you have retired cops and criminal experts providing colour commentary on police actions during student demonstrations, as if they were...
13 tags
Verbal Gaffes (La Presse)
Michèle Ouimet 9 June 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/chroniques/michele-ouimet/201206/08/01-4533303-le-derapage-verbal.php
Jacques Villeneuve, former Formula 1 Champion, thinks the students are loafers who scare tourists and make Quebec look bad in the eyes of others.
They were also poorly raised by parents who never learned to say no.
“They spend...
12 tags
Superior Court: Student Associations denounce Bill...
Pierre Saint-Arnaud June 12, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/justice-et-faits-divers/201206/12/01-4534002-la-loi-78-est-contestee-en-cour-superieure.php
On Tuesday, student associations have begun to elaborate their legal arguments to the opening of the hearings of the Superior Court of Quebec, which examines the first of two motions which aim is to...
10 tags
Bill 78: Gaétan Arel leaves the CAQ (La Presse)
Chloé Cotnoir June 11, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/la-tribune/estrie/201206/11/01-4533653-loi-78-gaetan-arel-quitte-la-caq.php
(Richmond) The Richmond candidate from the Coalition avenir Québec, Gaétan Arel, announced his resignaion yesterday. The adoption of bill 78, with the support of the MNAs of François Legault’s Coalition avenir Québec was a determining factor in...
12 tags
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association: Police...
By Charles Faribault | TVA News 12 June 2012
Original French Text: http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2012/06/20120612-175641.html
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (ACLCL) is preparing a damning report on the use of excessive police forcethat has occurredsince the beginning of the student strike in Quebec. The organization, which had severely criticized the conduct...
8 tags
Letter: The Illusion of the Election (Le Devoir)
François Bergeron and Christophe Reutenauer, Professors at UQAM; Sylvie Hamel, Professor at the Université dé Montréal 11 June 2012
Original French text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/352279/l-illusion-de-l-election
For many, the only possible way out of the student crisis is simple: all that is needed is for the government to call an election. In the worst hypothetical case, let...
