Political Profiling: The Habs, Instagram and the SPVM
April 18th, 2013 | by Jason C. McLean
They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. Montreal’s police force, the SPVM, is now openly engaging in political profiling.
Browsing the "Maple Spring" Tag
‘There is no right to protest’: Montreal police deny Charter rights
March 26th, 2013 | by Ethan Cox
"This is approaching absurdist comedy," tweeted Montreal Gazette reporter Christopher Curtis Friday night, trapped in a police kettle
Another Maple Spring: “the social crisis is behind us”
February 27th, 2013 | by Jason C. McLean
“The social crisis is behind us.” Quebec Premier Pauline Marois made that statement yesterday, concluding her party’s Summit on Higher
Interview with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
December 4th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
Ethan Cox is the Quebec Correspondent for Rabble.ca where this interview with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the former spokesperson for student group CLASSE originally appeared..
‘Maple Tour’ kicks off with a bang!
October 3rd, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
Day two of our national speaking tour dawned sunny in London, Ontario -- a good omen for things to come. On day one we spoke to over a hundred people at King's College in London, an active and engaged crowd who kept us half an hour past the end of the event with questions
How $7 million in SPVM overtime could have bought a greener Montreal
August 28th, 2012 | by Erin Hale
With university back in session, the cops are back on the beat, arresting protesters and racking up overtime. Radio Canada found the SPVM logged $5.6 million in overtime from February 1 to June 27, y'know, keeping track of protesters. As of July 13, it had reached $7.3 million
CLASSE rally amps up Montreal students for Quebec Elections
August 21st, 2012 | by Emily Campbell
Video report from the CLASSE rally that included performances by Quebec artists speaking out against tuition increase last week. The evening featured speeches on issues from democracy to feminism within the student movement and was highlighted by the final speech by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois on behalf of CLASSE after his resignation
100th Nightly Student Demonstration
August 6th, 2012 | by Emily Campbell
On the 100th nightly demonstration, and the first demonstration since the announcement of provincial elections this September, reporter Emily Campbell interviews students and critics about the future of the student movement and their attitude towards the provincial elections
Quebec court rejects emergency injunction against Bill 78
June 28th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
Quebec Superior Court Chief Justice François Rolland on Wednesday rejected a motion filed by Quebec's student associations asking for an emergency injunction against certain elements of Quebec's contentious Bill 78. In a twenty-one page decision released late Wednesday afternoon, Rolland found that the students case had the "appearance of right", but failed to meet the two other criteria for this type of emergency injunction, namely "irreparable prejudice" and "balance of inconvenience"
June 22: Things are coming up Charest
June 22nd, 2012 | by Henry Gass
With another day of action against tuition hikes planned for this afternoon – the sequel for similar actions on the 22nd of March and May – I spent the June 21 combing few some of the recent polls to try and get an idea of where all this madness has left us politically
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights criticizes Quebec
June 18th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
In an opening address to be delivered today to the 47 member UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will express her "alarm" at ongoing attempts to restrict freedom of assembly in Quebec
Anarchy Leading the People?
June 14th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
A poster by the Montreal band Mise en demeure was on the news as the police found it in Amir Khadir’s home whilst they were looking for incriminating evidence after they arrested Dr Khadir’s 19 years old daughter Yalda Machouf-Khadir
“We can’t start the revolution from Starbucks” – For Quebec, for OUR budget, join us in the streets!
June 12th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
This Wednesday we need your voice. We only need to borrow it for a few hours, and I promise you'll enjoy its use. It needs to be raised in unison with others across the country and around the world
Quebec’s Tears of Entitlement – Canada’s Shame
June 10th, 2012 | by Mike Gwilliam
As a student living in Ontario, I pay more for tuition than Quebec students. I don't have any scholarships. I pay full price. If I was told I would be paying around $450+ more a year, I honestly wouldn't care. I really fail to see why students in Quebec are taking this so difficultly. It makes me laugh, and ashamed, that I have to share a country with a province that comes across as having such a sense of entitlement
We are all Quebecers: Chilean students
June 9th, 2012 | by ftbstaffposts
The following is an open letter signed by 109 Chilean student leaders and academics: The undersigned Chilean academics and student leaders denounce before the national and international public opinion the persecution of the Quebec student movement in Canada, as expressed in Bill 78, enacted on Thursday May 19 by the Provincial Government of Premier Jean Charest. Bill 78, the "truncheon law", is the most severe piece of legislation
Love is the movement: it starts in Quebec, but it will not end here…
June 9th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
Our world is upside down, and somehow we have been convinced that walking on the ceiling is normal. But this unsustainable balance of power is a house of cards, a carefully maintained illusion which depends entirely on our subservience to it. If we walk away from our televisions, break the bonds of our isolation and talk to each other about our dreams, our desires, we realize we are neither alone, nor crazy
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