June 2012
201 posts
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Quebec City - Regulation on law and order is...
Isabelle Porter June 20, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/ville-de-quebec/352903/le-reglement-sur-la-loi-et-l-ordre-est-adopte-dans-le-tumulte
Quebec City’s new regulation on protests caused quite a stir yesterday at City Hall and led to an arrest for assault yesterday afternoon.
“Charest! Labeaume! Same fight! ” shouted the protesters in the...
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Pauline Marois will no longer wear the red square...
Patrick Bellerose June 20, 2012
Original French Text: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/20/pauline-marois-ne-portera-plus-le-carre-rouge_n_1612264.html
The leader of the Parti Quebecois,Pauline Marois, has put her red square away for good.
She said so Wednesday morning on the show, “Puisqu’il faut se lever,” hosted by Paul Arcand on the radio at 98.5 FM.
“I will no longer wear the red...
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Tyrant children? Really? (La Presse)
Jerry Beaudoin, Primary school teacher June 2, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/le-cercle-la-presse/actualites/201206/02/48-443-des-enfants-rois-vraiment.php
I’m truly astonished every time, after more than a hundred days of student outcry, that I’m still reading such spiteful and condescending clichés about students in comments on various social networks.
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Opinion – The oppressor as victim (Le Devoir)
Francis Dionne Montreal June 19 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/352773/la-victimisation-du-bourreau
The trivialization of violence is spreading in Quebec society, or so we are told. “Casseurs,” intimidators (i.e. strike supporters, demonstrators and general protesters) are poisoning the collective mind, which once upon a time was...
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Bill 78 – Artists, intellectuals, syndicalists:...
Original French Text: http://profscontrelahausse.org/communiques/loi-78-artistes-intellectuel-les-syndicalistes-unis-contre-linfame-speciale/
Montreal, June 20th 2012/ CNW Telbec/ - Tomorrow, June 21st, 49 people, among some 1200 signatories of a letter against the infamous special law, will take to the street to arrive at the office of the premier of Quebec and the leader of the liberal party....
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Letter from Elise Turcotte to the Premier
June 18, 2012
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/notes/kim-doré/lettre-délise-turcotte-à-lendroit-du-premier-ministre/10150927469944705
Mister Premier,
I am writing to you today, to you, to your government, knowing in advance that the words of a writer don’t interest you, that you won’t read them since they have never and will never have any impact on the economic life of your...
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Letter: Intimidation over casseroles (Le Devoir)
Denise Eva Ouellette - Verchères June 11, 2012 (Published June 13, 2012)
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/352278/intimidation-a-propos-des-casseroles
Sunday, June 10, around 8:20 PM, we were two retired couples, two young couples, and seven children who were playing together in the park of Verchères. It was a peaceful and festive demonstration...
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Violence -- Brazen Dishonesty (Le Devoir)
Virginie Larivière - Doctoral student in Environmental Sciences at UQAM and author and spokesperson for a petition of 1.5 million signatures against television violence in 1992.
June 19, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/352769/malhonnetete-ehontee
Dear Premier Jean Charest,
I hope, in this space, to express my trouble with your repeated appeals...
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Ottawa flies to the defense of the Charest...
Joël-Denis Bellavance June 20, 2012
Original French text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-quebecoise/201206/20/01-4536841-loi-78-ottawa-vole-a-la-defense-du-gouvernement-charest.php
(OTTAWA) Twenty-four hours after adding its voice to that of the Charest government in denouncing United Nations critics with regard to the special law (78), the Harper government took...
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Jacques Villeneuve tells protesters to "stop...
June 8, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2012/06/07/004-villeneuve-manifestation-etudiants.shtml
The student protests are in the sights of a new, high-profile detractor— and he weighs into them like a freight train.
Jacques Villeneuve, ex-champion of the Formula 1, is fed up with the protest movement that has dragged on for months and now threatens...
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The CLASSE defines its plan of action for the...
Original French text: http://www.bloquonslahausse.com/2012/06/la-classe-definit-son-plan-daction-pour-lete/
Montreal, 18 June 2012 — The assocations that make up the CLASSE (the Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante / Broad Coalition of the Association for Student Union Solidarity) held a congress on Sunday in order to work out the organisation’s...
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Law 78: The Harper Government supports Québec (La...
Joël-Denis Bellavance & Martin Croteau June 19, 2012
Original French Text:
(Ottawa) The Conservative government has made a grand gesture to defend Quebec’s right to have adopted Law 78, a measure aimed at stifling the student conflict. What’s more, the conservatives are challenging opposition parties to follow its lead. Stephen Harper’s lieutenant in Quebec, Christian...
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Account of a search in my home (La Presse)
Francine Lamarche June 12, 2012
The author is the mother of a young 25-year old man who was subject to a search related to a break-in at the University of Montréal.
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/votre-opinion/201206/12/01-4534163-recit-dune-perquisition-chez-moi.php
Thursday, June 7, 6:01am…
There is ringing at the door. That’s rare at this hour… But me,...
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Student conflict: the FECQ launches a third appeal...
The Canadian Press June 18, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/352761/conflit-etudiant-la-fecq-lance-un-troisieme-appel-a-la-mediation
FECQ president Éliane Laberge thinks that mediation, a process that has “stood the test of time,” would allow all parties to come together and arrive at a satisfactory compromise.
Today, the Fédération étudiante...
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Police Denial (La Presse)
Rima Elkouri June 12, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/chroniques/rima-elkouri/201206/12/01-4534009-deni-policier.php
“Charged with driving while black.” This is what black Americans call it when they are victims of profiling while driving, with no other reasonable motive. Rather than being accused of driving while intoxicated, they get a veiled accusation...
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Talking "Responsibility" With Jean Charest (La...
Vincent Marissal June 18, 2012
Original French Text: http://blogues.lapresse.ca/marissal/2012/06/18/parlons-%C2%ABresponsabilite%C2%BB-avec-jean-charest/ I don’t know what message exactly the liberal strategists are seeking to send [with the ad that was released today, which is viewable here], but if they want to tell us that the last session was hard and that their leader is tired,...
