Tuition increases will proceed but ancillary fees will be cancelled and the new offers of widened loans and bursaries will be kept, and a council will look into university funding in the deal being presented to student groups. More details here.
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A couple of people were pretty badly injured in yesterday’s Victoriaville scrum, but tweets coming out of today are saying it’s been pretty low-key there since reports that a tentative agreement has been arrived at with student leaders, who still have to present the as-yet-undisclosed arrangements to their members for approval. Details are to be revealed at or after 8 p.m. this evening.
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Tony Accurso’s Louisbourg firm and SNC-Lavalin have spawned a new group called Groupe Futur Turcot to pitch for the $3-billion contract to rebuild the interchange.
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Clément
I vaguely remember reading, a few months ago, that all contractors who will prepare bids for the Turcot rebuild will be compensated (generously $$$) for their efforts, even if they don’t win the bid.
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Raoul
Is it just my impression, or did these sortof things used to get done alot faster a few decades ago? Old newsreels tell me it took a few years to build expo, not sure if i believe it XD
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Kate
It took a couple of years to build Expo 67 because of having to create an entire new island, while building the metro at the same time. Still not bad. Metro cars were also built pretty damn fast when wanted. Not sure how you’d summarize what changed in the meantime.
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qatzelok
I’m glad his firm is called Lousibourg. The town of the same name bankrupted France.
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Kate
Clément, we’ve discussed that phenomenon on this blog before. It’s quite usual at that level to offer compensation to businesses that qualify to bid, as it can take a whole team several months to come up with a viable proposal, and that kind of effort does need to be reimbursed.
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This time of year I have the window open – traffic noises, people passing, dogs barking – but above it all I can hear a thin distinctive piping sound. It’s apparently the white-throated sparrow – that page has a “typical voice” link that will play one version of the bird’s call. A Toronto Star writer talks about hearing it in Toronto.
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Brad
Yep, I’ve been hearing them for the past week or so. In New England (where I lived for 20 years), people say the bird is singing “Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody.” In Ontario it’s described as “Oh, Sweet Canada, Canada, Canada.” Not sure how it’s described in Québec. ;-)
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I’m doing OpenFile today – some notes from the Victoriaville chaos and a few other stories, for starters.
Topnotch cartoon from Garnotte this morning in Le Devoir.
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C_Erb
I’d like to see a collection of Quebec newspaper editorial cartoons about the strike. A lot of them have been quite good (such as this one after the nude protest http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/yvon-roy/manif-toute-nue_b_1476917.html)
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Kate
I’d love to do that but some newspapers post cartoons inside scripted formats making them hard to link to individually. I’ll see what I can do.
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Ian 21:54 on 2012/05/05 Permalink
English version here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/05/05/students-group-talks-continue.html Is this victory? Either way I hope the offer is accepted. It’s not ideal but it’s a major concession that benefits future students and allows both sides to come out of this looking like they saved face.
qatzelok 10:09 on 2012/05/06 Permalink
Ian, you’ve got to be kidding. A six-month tuition freeze? Why not a two-week freeze instead? This is a cynical offer from a corrupt government that only listens to brown envelopes.
Ian 07:06 on 2012/05/07 Permalink
Having read the offer in more detail, I’ve come to agree with you, qatzelok. The government has simply offloaded the responsibility for negotiation to the universities much like they’re offloading the responsibility for funding education to the students, with no binding agreement in place and tuition increases going ahead as planned. It is indeed a cynical offer, you’re absolutely right..