85 Arrested in Montreal After Students Riot Over Tuition Hikes — See the Video
- Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:00am by
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MONTREAL (The Blaze/AP) — Police in Canada say 85 people have been arrested after thousands of students angry over tuition increases protested in
Montreal, with some smashing windows of businesses.
The rioting came after talks broke off Wednesday between the Quebec provincial government and student groups over the planned tuition increase of $325 a year.
The Montreal Gazette has more:
After two hours of peaceful protest, police declared the march illegal and the situation unravelled quickly.
Percussion bombs and pepper spray exploded at the corner of Peel and Ste. Catherine Sts., a car was set on fire at the corner of Stanley and Ste. Catherine Sts. and chaos ensued as the police started to push the crowd back using whatever tools they had in their arsenal.
Onlookers blamed a small group of protesters for instigating the trouble.
A standoff between mounted police and taunting protesters brought the crowd, estimated at about 5,000, to a dead halt at Drummond and Ste. Catherine Sts. and then the police intervention squad moved in banging their shields.
Officers in full riot gear marched up Peel St. and the air in the area was thick with pepper spray.
The talks broke off after the government ejected the most militant student group from the discussions.
Students swarmed the streets and fought with police over several hours. A police station, banks and other businesses had windows shattered.
Ironically, polls indicate Quebecers generally support the fee hikes.
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roadhog
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:13amThe Queen and the Communists
Report Post »SoNick
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:26amAnarchists and members of the Black Bloc always find their way into legitimate demonstrations. Since they’re the ones who tend to break stuff, they ALWAYS end up on the news even if they represent 0,01% of the demonstrators
Report Post »Unix
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:56pmDid you all notice all of the ‘RED PATCHES’ being worn by the students? Come May I think we will be seeing that here, along with the black bloc, unions and ows causing much trouble here! Be vigilant and prepared my friends, things could get very ugly here, very quickly!
Report Post »SoNick
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:35pm@Unix
Report Post »The Red Square is actually the symbol of the student movement in Quebec. They didn’t choose red because of its communist implications, but because they want to “stop” the tuition fee hikes (as in “red light”). Students who support the hikes (yes, they exist) wear green squares (as in “green light”). And just to keep things in perspective, the provincial government is actually doubling the annual tuition fees over a 5 year period.
Frogdaddy
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:12pmI noticed the same thing. I had to pause it. The first video had the guy with the anarchist symbol on the back of his jacket. The last video a guy walked in front of the camera with red commie star on his hat.
Report Post »They have a way of showing up to these events. Another reason I’d avoid large crowds these days.
Unix
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:15pmSonic, I don’t buy into what you say, when I see red stars intermingled, and anarchists. It might be what you believe, but believe me it means something quite different eh! I’m too old and wise to have the wool pulled over my eyes.
Report Post »druizeer
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:49pmRidiculous. What a bunch of socialist pansies. $325 over each of the next five years? Thats less than what the average US college student spends each year just for textbooks.
Report Post »sasquatch08
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:23pmIt’s not even what I spent on books in a single semester.
Report Post »Rover4444
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:00pmYou have to remember, they’re in Canada. CANADA. C-A-N-A-D-A. Canada. Their economy isn’t completely in the **** right now. C’mon, say it with me! CANADA.
Report Post »JB76
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:40pmWhy aren’t these college kids protesting their liberal professors? The professors and Universities are the ones benefiting from these hikes. It’s not the police, government, or surrounding businesses fault.
Report Post »tadroid
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:42pmAn education in most universities should absolutely be free. Afterall, you get what you pay for, and those holding diplomas can tell that today, that rag ain’t worth a whole lot.
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:48pmSimilar chaos is coming to a neighborhood near you beginning May 1 when OWS kicks off its kill capitalism campaign.
Glenn had on a segment that explained how the leaders of this group is using various factions….which includes the black faction and their acceleration of mob assaults…..to create violence, chaos and mayhem.
I was impressed with the credible information he revealed.
Get ready for a summer of violence, intensifying up to and including the Democrat National convention from the OWS crowd. Then look for more of the same from the black population if Zimmerman is acquitted as he should be next year.
And, the top economists are forecasting further imbalances in state budgets all over the country, creating austerity programs to accelerate for pensions and government personnel.
Ever get the feeling we’re fast approaching critical mass, and this empire is due to collapse?
Report Post »VISITORNUMBER3
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:32pmWow, you don‘t think this just so happens to coincide with Obama’s recent remarks about student loans, do ya? Hmmmmm
I‘d be real interested to know who posts these Canadian students’ bail….
Report Post »VISITORNUMBER3
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:43pmI mean “Canadian students”….
I’d be willing to bet that some of them are occupiers sent in from the US…it’d be interesting to find out…
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:32pmThis just proves that there are sheeple in Canada also. If the prices are too high then go somewhere else where the prices of tuition is lower.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:05pmI was going to make a crack about their French blood, but I know Americans aren’t any better anymore.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 7:51amI‘m thinking those arrested didn’t say please or thank you. What is Canada coming to…what is this all aboot?
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:22pmUsually they riot over hockey in Montreal.
More hickory shampoos. Harder. Faster.
Quebec is the womb of Canada’s Communism problem.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:12pmSte. Catherine St used to be nothing but strip clubs and bars back in the day. I haven’t been there in a while, so I don’t know for sure if it still is.
It is interesting that most of these riots and protests occur in immoral and decadent neighborhoods. Neither lack of wealth nor race has anything to do with it; Moral decay is at the heart of all of these protests.
Report Post »flamegonesilver
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:06pmAnd here I thought Canada, ‘didn’t have a care in the world.’
Report Post »Socialism works great…until you run out of OTHER’s peoples money!
canadianproud
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:23pmClean up your own doorstep. Canada doesn’t owe you.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:04pmthen why are you posting here Canadian? Socialism not good enough for ya?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:49amAt least the students in Canada are holding the right people accountable. Even if the tuition hike is economically responsible. Here, we’ve recently observed 0bama give a speech that essentially hooks the ring in the collective noses of our full of propaganda college students and has them believing it the fault of the lending institutions who loaned them the money to begin with, or naturally, the Republican party in general.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:59amYes. It‘s part of Obama’s anti-rich/ anti-banks/ ANTI- Capitalism message This election boils down to that : Capitalism versus Big Brother’s anti-capitalism ( don’t know what the so-called Democrat “ progressives” call themselves, but their rhetoric sure smacks of the old Karl Marx teachings ! )…. These are not your grandmother’s brand of Democrats !
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:36am$325 increase a year? Imagine what happen whent the “slop chute” trickles to nothing here in America?!?!
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:45amget government out of education and see how low tuition will be
Report Post »infortheride
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:23pmGet Unions out of education and watch the world get smarter
Report Post »TTCanuck
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:43pmI am a Canadian and I can tell you that it is $325 dollars per year, for five years. I am also a student (in Alberta), and I can tell you that Quebec already has the lowest tuition in the country and even after the increases over the next five years, they will still have the lowest tuition.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:32amYou lazy bums. GET A JOB!!!! Forget a higher education. It’s obviously beyond your abilities.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:29amThese colleges require so many courses not needed to excel in their major just to collect money from already strapped students. Build your own schools. Go into trades and expand. Who needs all that liberal indoctrination, anyway? Always learn the truth and the real history and laws. That way you will have it firmly on your side. Do not learn twisted versions of anything. Learn the truth. People have a tendency to twist things to suit their own agendas. You have only so much time in your life to get it right. Lean how to build and take care of yourselves. Pass it on. These idealists have nothing for you but pipe dreams and you just can’t eat them.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:25amLearn a trade and use it until some job comes by you are interested in. There are only so many white color jobs and they are handed down to family and friends. Learn something you can use and stick to it, invent something. There are too many colleges, and too much leftist propaganda that you are paying for to indoctrinate you into poverty and slavery.
Report Post »GoodCook
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:19amI really don’t see why these collage students should be complaining. These are just uber-liberal progressive professors who are demanding more of their money so they can spew and disseminate useless and incorrect information. Aren’t these the types of people that this group supports? OR, is it that they finally get it that they are being taken for a ride and that they will start eating their own.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:17amJust part of the international Lefties..the Black Mask type groups of anarchy- affinity groups ..the Asbusters ( Canadian ) OWS Movement. They have been planning a “ revolution” in America for months. Been reading their ” grab your hoodie / we need a street revolution in America ” posts in the New York Times for the last year. Remember the London riots last August ? Same crew of anarchist/ Lefty wackos. These guys are all over the place. Like the Anonymous group: they like to hack, to break laws, to break rules, to break windows , to break down law and order. After all, that is the “ job” of a destructive, dysfunctional anarchist . A angry loser. Angry at everyone – especially those in “ authority” who try to make them behave. These guys all need serious counseling and anger management . Not going to happen because they have an agenda : destruction for the sake of destruction . Sad.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:09amMontreal is the most “progressive” part of a “progressive” country . they SHOULD all be thrown out of school .. but they won’t be …
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:08amOWS… was begun from Canada… so was ObamaCare! It is Irony… or Justice!
Report Post »SoNick
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:16pmWrong and wrong. Obamacare is modeled on Romneycare, not on Canada’s single payer system. Insurance companies still run the show in the US.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:07amOnly arrested? Too bad!!!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:06amTuition would be far cheaper if colleges and universities got rid of the many foolish, and politically correct, majors that they offer.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 2:21pmFor once I wholeheartedly agree with you and I cannot emphasize that nearly enough. Moreover, getting rid of those useless majors would lead to higher eligibility for jobs among graduates which would in turn lead to less unemployment and a stronger economy while simultaneously enabling more people to be able to afford college.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:06am$325 in Canadian dollars? So actually $17.47 American
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:55amNope .. TED check the exchange rate … I think we are close to par or they are ahead .. while Obama was “stimulating” they were cutting spending and drilling .. we are so screwed!
Report Post »SoNick
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:19pmmake that 329 USD, according to today’s exchange rate. All it takes is a few seconds to check it out, which is apparently how long it took you to come up with your humourless post.
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