Unpaid internships and the Quebec strike – Episode 15
“Because students are there to learn and not work for free.” Dario Guescini, Director of Work Integrated Learning at George Brown College.
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Striking students march against unpaid internships in Montreal
With a banner reading ‘pay us, or we break everything’ students smash wooden doors in street outside of Université du Québec à Montréal
Quebec students to strike against unpaid internships
The Quebec-wide coalition against unpaid internships has set March 18 as the date for their general unlimited strike
CFS-O to create a student strike plan
Student strike would be ‘direct action’ against government’s OSAP cuts
A Day Against Islamophobia is the least we can do: Aysha White
One year after the mass shooting at a Quebec City Mosque killed six people, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is missing the point that they were targeted because of their religion
Concordia University denounces Quebec's secular charter
Kalina Laframboise CUP Quebec Bureau Chief MONTREAL (CUP) — Concordia University is the third and last English university in Quebec to publicly denounce the charter of secularism proposed by the Parti Québécois.
Students protest outside of CFS meeting
Demonstration focused on students’ hardships when trying to defederate
Parti Québécois adopts a tougher stance on The Charter Of Values
Kalina Laframboise CUP Quebec Bureau Chief MONTREAL (CUP) — The Parti Québécois officially tabled its controversial charter of values, aimed at separating church and state, in the National Assembly this week with stricter regulations for civil servants for religious accommodations. Minister responsible for Democratic Institutions and Active Citizenship Bernard Drainville presented Bill 60, now known…
Montreal police arrest 600 under new bylaw
By Karen Nickel DIALOG REPORTER Is protesting a thought crime? Montreal police have stated that people have the right to freedom of expression, but not the right to protest. The SPVM (Montreal’s police), since the “Higher Education Summit” in February, have used municipal by-law, P-6, to pre-emptively shut down protests before they even begin, labelling…
The campus press is a watchdog, don’t chain it
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor This week has seen the campus press making the news and much as covering it. The Gazette at Western University is in a hot dispute with the University Students’ Council (USC) over plans to move the paper into a space about half the size of its current office, reportedly to…
The problem with democracy is that it represents us
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor Many people don’t bother to vote, let alone lobby their elected representatives, sit in public galleries, or attend protests. It’s not that people are apathetic or dumb. On the contrary, many people know that their votes and their voices really don’t count for much in our system. Once you cast…
Ontario students create own movement
By Katherine DeClerq CUP Ontario Bureau Chief OTTAWA (CUP)—In Quebec, hundreds of thousands of students have gathered over the summer to protest the government’s decision to raise tuition fees and enact Bill 78, an emergency law passed on May 18 that restricts protests and picketing on university grounds. While the movement has received international attention…