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Peaceful demonstrators sit in front of a line of police officers in riot gear in Victoriaville, Que.

More than 400,000 Canadians-students and defenders of freedom of expression-filled the streets of Montreal this week to demonstrate against a 75 percent university tuition hike and emergency legislation that placed draconian penalties on people exercising their right to protest.

Peaceful demonstrators sit in front of a line of police officers in riot gear in Victoriaville, Que.

The staggering number of student protest-related arrests in Quebec - 2,500 and counting - is about to add costs and delays to an already overburdened justice system.

In Resistance is not violence , Mona Luxion describes why it is important for protesters to disregard the limits set by those who "profit from the status quo." The timeline of the Quebec student movement has indicated that students have been doing exactly that.

Peaceful demonstrators sit in front of a line of police officers in riot gear in Victoriaville, Que.

Voter irritation with the student-led tuition protests, which have hog-tied Quebec's education system, may have given the ailing provincial Liberals a shot in the arm.

Education Minister and Deputy Premier Line Beauchamp dropped a bombshell on Monday, abruptly resigning from politics in the face of the ongoing student protest that appears to have no end in sight.

An award-winning documentary maker in radio, film and TV, Terence McKenna has created documentaries on such topics as black-market adoptions, the political use of food during the Ethiopian famine and the search for Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive, and to be young, Trotskyist, and a Quebec CA©gep or university arts or humanities student or loosely-affiliated hanger-on is very heaven! What A a time our friends are having.

Montreal riot police clash with protesters outside College de Rosemont on Monday morning.

This is both surprising and utterly predictable: surprising because college students in French Canada have by far the best financial deal in the country and should thus be the last people to complain, predictable because the Qubcois have a long history of being difficult and demonstrate adroitly that, even when surrounded, the French will be the ... (more)

Studentsmarch on May 5, 2012 in Victoriaville, Canada, where Quebec's liberal party is holding its annual convention.

MONTREAL: Students from a number of universities in Canada's Quebec province voted Tuesday against a tentative deal on contested tuition hikes and in favor of a continued strike.

Some people are lashing out at Quebec police in the wake of violent confrontations in which several protesters were injured, including one young man who lost an eye.

Quebec Premier Jean Charest speaks to delegates at the end of a Quebec Liberal Party meeting Sunday, May 6, 2012 in Victoriaville, Que.

For the past three months, students across the Canadian province of Quebec have waged an unprecedented strike against rising tuition.

A protester jeers at riot police during demonstrations outside the convention of the Quebec Liberal Party in Victoriaville, Que., Friday.

VICTORIAVILLE, QUE. After a bitter three-month battle, there was hope of a breakthrough in Quebec's tuition crisis, with news of a tentative agreement reached between the provincial government and student leaders.

Student protesters and other groups clashed with police in Victoriaville, Que., on Friday as the Quebec Liberal Party gathered for a meeting nearby "Quebec tuition talks continue after violent protest" is categorized as "world". This video was licensed from Grab Networks.