Translating the printemps érable

Translating the printemps érable is a volunteer collective attempting to balance the English media's extremely poor coverage of the student conflict in Québec by translating media that has been published in French into English. These are amateur translations; we have done our best to translate these pieces fairly and coherently, but the final texts may still leave something to be desired. If you find any important errors in any of these texts, we would be very grateful if you would share them with us at translatingtheprintempsderable@gmail.com. Please read and distribute these texts in the spirit in which they were intended; that of solidarity and the sharing of information.

If you would like to volunteer and join the effort, please contact us at the above email before embarking on any translation work, in order to avoid any redundancies. We cannot accept translations that have not been cleared with us first.

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CUTV - broadcasting live from the protests nightly

OpenFile Montreal

Rouge Squad - Tactical Translation Team

Montreal Media Coop

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Rabble.ca's Maple Spring Coverage

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Media coverage of the student conflict (Le Devoir)

Raphaël Dallaire-Ferland July 7, 2012

Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/medias/354051/la-couverture-mediatique-du-conflit-etudiant

In a report published this week, Influence Communication analyzed 396 front pages of Montreal’s four commercial dailies —La Presse, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montréal and The Gazette.

The period covered extends from February 15, when strike votes first started attracting major media attention, up to June 9, 2012, more than one week after the failure of negotiations between minister Michelle Courchesne and the student leaders.

While the conflict made the front pages of Le Devoir, La Presse and The Gazette in similar proportions (approximately 73.5% of front pages), Le Journal de Montréal gave it less attention, allocating 42% of front-page coverage. Le Devoir had the highest ratio of top headlines (stories given the most space) devoted to the student movement, occupying 43.88% of the total of its front pages.