“Once again, François Legault sticks his neck where it doesn’t belong, interfering in the affairs of a university he’s defunding, in a city he otherwise doesn’t care about.”
Une centaine de personnes ont pris d’assaut l’espace devant les bureaux de #FrançoisLegault, au centre-ville de #Montréal, vendredi midi.
La manifestation, organisée par le Front régional pour l’action communautaire autonome de Montréal ( #FRACA Montréal ) se déroule au coin de la rue Sherbrooke Ouest et de l’avenue McGill College, juste en face du fameux campement installé depuis samedi.
More than 20,000 students at #McGill and #Concordia universities are set to strike for a week on Monday to protest the #Quebec government's tuition hikes for out-of-province and international students.
In October 2023, after months of meetings with Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry, the English universities thought tuition reform would not hurt them. They were very wrong.
McGill and Concordia universities said they were shocked in October when Higher Education Minister
Pascale Déry announced major tuition changes directly targeting the English institutions’ finances, enrolment and reputations.
I have a feeling the #CAQ is going to regret how transparent they were in drafting #Bill21 to specifically target Muslim women who covered their heads by this afternoon.
The previous court ruling in a separate, unrelated litigation determined that the law was unambiguously and specifically targeted against Muslim women.
That last word is what matters.
Gender discrimination in application of the #Charter cannot be shielded by a notwithstanding clause.
« [Quebec's] strict limits on admissions for family reunification, and subsequent delays that make the wait three times longer here than in the rest of #Canada have led to profoundly heartbreaking human consequences.»
«Contamination from #pollutants emitted by the Horne smelter could reach areas larger than the expropriation perimeter, according to the group Mères au front, which presented the results of a new study on Friday in #Montreal.»
“Let’s talk about why the government’s creating artificial urgency to spend $870-million on a roof for a stadium that functioned without one for 10 years.”