Although there have been a few incidents, the massive protest downtown, still going on after midnight – it received a few police warnings but the illegal call around 10 pm was pulled back – has mostly remained peaceful. Tweets have boggled at the sheer numbers that have come out in response to Bill 78.
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A lot of people are out in the street demonstrating tonight, and Twitter says police have just declared the demo illegal, with tear gas, rubber bullets, percussion bombs and the whole kit.
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Marc
Molotov cocktails have been tossed at the police.
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Kate
La Presse’s P. Teisceira-Lessard just tweeted: Résumé: après une flambée de violence coin St-Laurent/St-Denis, un calme relatif est revenu. La #manifencours illégale est tolérée.
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Anto
Yeah well you should always expect the unexpected at the corner of two parallels.
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Kate
Yes, if the demos are bending space-time we’re really in trouble.
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mare
At a certain point the demonstration split up and then later reunited. It was kind of cool to see another demonstration coming towards you. Now my feet hurt after more than three hours continuous walking. And I left earlier, they’re now (2PM) almost 5 hours demonstrating.
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Ian
What I’d like to know is how, with 10s of thousands of peoples, many with cameras, hundreds of cops, many with cameras, helicopters, probably with cameras, and dozens of photojournalists, nobody managed to get a shot of these alleged “molotov cocktails”.
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Kevin
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Kevin
That’s a photo of a smoke bomb, and the report says a CP photographer saw the firebombs.
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Marc
@ Ian, It was reported on the SPVM’s Twitter feed. I realize you don’t find that to be trustworthy but you have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Ian
A smoke bomb’s not a molotov, and if you’re seriously telling me a photographer saw the molotovs but got no pictures as proof… well, if you hear a soft snickering sound, that’s me over here, laughing derisively.
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Ian
@Marc – no I don’t. The cops have lied many times before, and they have every reason to lie about this. That they let the protest re-form speaks volumes to disorganization up the chain of command – I can just imagine, “There’s too many people on the street to control! Shut it down, make up something about molotovs!” “Oh no, they’re not going home & we can’t arrest them all, we need to look like we’re in control – tweet that it’s legal after all!”
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Marc
@ Ian: Seeing you resorting to non sequiturs it’s obvious that you and I won’t agree on this (or on anything, for that matter), so I bid you farewell.
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steph
This reddit user details the passing of events, and tells “A molotov cocktail is throw at police but lands in the street without hitting anyone”
http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/tu702/quebec_student_protests_turn_increasingly_violent/c4psjt4 -
Ian
…and still, no photos.
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Kevin
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Ian
@Kevin – I don’t expect them to be perfect, but I do expect them not to propagate lies on behalf of the alarmist police. tens of thousands of people and not a single photo? I call bullshit. We’ve all seen the cops stretch the truth to serve their needs on many occasions, why would this one be any different?
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Ian
I stand corrected – a friend forwarded me this youtube footage. Pretty intense, and I can’t support throwing molotovs at the cops. http://youtu.be/IZBzWqp6mRQ
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In the spirit of “tell Vic everything” people have been phoning the police to get permission for all kinds of gatherings – “On a une réunion de famille demain et on s’en va de tel coin de rue à tel coin de rue”…
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Anto
The student associations also didn’t take any chance and already informed the authorities of the path the May 22nd protest would take
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Kate
That’s quite a hike.
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Anto
If nothing else, Quebec’s youth will be the fittest in the country at the end of the summer (tear gas fumes notwithstanding).
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Adam
Kate, I think you need to look a bit more carefully at the outline of the route… I think they might be trying to send a subtle message.
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Kate
Adam, I’m actually not a complete idiot, you know.
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Adam
Kate, breathe. I just thought you’d missed it. I did at first, it took me a minute to notice.
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Adam
Anyway, if it helps rehabilitate me around here, I’m horrified by this law. It’s a grotesque infringement on freedom of speech and freedom of association. I’m glad that people are taking notice and fighting back. Although the reports of molotov cocktails being thrown tonight are not encouraging. Hopefully people stay peaceful and creative, like these phone calls.
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ant6n
I wonder what they mean by “molotov cocktail”. Are they actually referring to bottles of booze, with a sock (or whatever) in it on fire, which blow up on impact? Cuz that would be pretty fucked up. In any case, protesters need to stop throwing shit.
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Anto
@ant6n: I wonder as well, because they used that term earlier in the protests to describe simple liquid filled bottles, with no fire involved. Whatever it is, I hope policemen arrest the criminals and let the rest protest peacefully.
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ant6n
True. Thing is, the use of the term ‘molotov cocktail’ invokes images of civil war and war zones.
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Faiz Imam
Is it bad if I imagine killing Zombies?
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Hamza
Can like everybody stop picking on the blogeuse? If you find yourself needing to correct her on like every post please just hit the back button on yr browser to national post.
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Hamza
Actually I correct myself. Don’t hit back, click an ad on the top right.
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Kate
Thanks Hamza!
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The petition against Bill 78 that I linked and tweeted earlier was wishful thinking. It has no binding power. Please everyone, stay home and don’t cause any fuss.
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As expected, the National Assembly passed Bill 78 on Friday afternoon. Wow, even using Facebook or Twitter to encourage people to demonstrate could be actionable now. Whether wearing a red square will be considered a provocation is not yet clear.
OK folks. These are my instructions: Stay home, only leaving the house to go to work, never congregate with more than half a dozen people at a time, keep your heads down and your voices down, and limit your net postings to pictures of kittens.
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walkerp
And I suspect Charest just signed his resignation slip with this one. Still, quite astounding. He is the one who finally took off the mask.
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Kate
It would be more satisfying if there were anyone else I preferred to see in power. Why don’t we have a provincial NDP?
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Ian
I will be awfully surprised if Marois repeals this convenient bill when she is elected. You know, like how the federal Liberals didn’t get around to “scrape” the GST.
Anyway the obvious solution to the assembly law is to break the student movement up into small independent groups of 20 people. “Oh no, officer, we aren’t 10, 000 marching in the street against social injustice, we are 500 completely independent groups of 20 with a common interest that are only coincidentally marching at the same time”. -
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Of course you might have just created a single movement that protests in small groups of 20 people; that are nevertheless associated because of your post. So you’ll be fined that 100K after all. -
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The only good thing about the bill is that it expires next year, so Marois – you speak as if her election is a certainty, Ian – wouldn’t have to lift a finger.
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Ian
I do think Marois is pretty much a shoo-in but whatever, they’re all a bunch of corrupt clowns. The small independent cell concept worked for a group now known as the bolsheviks. Food for thought.
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Kevin
I’ve been hearing from several people that the latest Leger marketing poll will show that more than 60% of Quebecers support this law.
As a tactic, putting a sunset clause within the next year was pretty smart.And while there is a demo tonight, and will be tens of thousands of people in the streets next Tuesday, the law is not designed to stop it (nor should it).
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Clément
“It would be more satisfying if there were anyone else I preferred to see in power.”
And this is one of the reasons the liberals manage to stay in power. Many people in Québec would rather vote for an anti-democratic prick like Charest than vote for a party that represents most of their values (social-democrat PQ, socialist QS), yet also favours a separatist utopia that has near-zero chance of ever happening in our lifetimes.
Even if Charest ate little kittens for breakfast on TV, was part of a satanic cult, had a Swastika tattooed on his forehead and was seen on TV accepting big fat brown envelops from contractors, he would still get 30% of the votes. People would say “Well he might be evil, but at least, he’s not a separatist”.
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Kate
Clément, I see what you mean, but it’s not quite that clear in my case. For one, the PQ used to be social democrats if not outright socialists, but they haven’t truly espoused those positions in a long time. Likewise, since their position means they have to constantly give lip-service to independence, duplicating federal services and generally putting a lot of effort into the national project, that’s a lot of taxpayer money down the drain for very little win.
In addition, I’ve never warmed to Mme Marois as a personality – she’s just too rich and too remote and fundamentally too humourless. Of course you can vote for people you wouldn’t particularly want to have drinks with, but it helps if you have some glimpse of what they’re like as a human being, and in her case I can’t say I do.
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ant6n
At least the ‘lefties’ have decent alternatives on the city and the federal level.
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Raoul
For all the complaints of “quebecois racism” and french cultural opression… and its the PLQ (of all parties) passing fascist-like laws.
Irony (and treachery?) is in the eye of the beholder.
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Kevin
Everyone knows these fascist-like laws apply in places like… New York City, right?
Actually NYC is a little more strict. You need to apply for a permit 5 days in advance if you want to protest in the park http://www.nycgovparks.org/rules/section-2-08BTW Big protest this coming Sunday in St. Jean by motorcyclists. Because the cost for our driver’s licenses went up 100% a few years ago, and the annual costs for registering our vehicles went up by 100 to 700% depending on what you ride. (Although thanks to protests, talks, and having facts on our side we convinced the SAAQ to change things. My registration only cost $545 this year.)
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Kate
Kevin, you’re flailing to make a point here. New York City is profoundly different from Montreal, U.S. law is different from our law, and besides we’re not talking about protests in a park.
As for the motorbike thing – well, they’re dangerous beasts. I have no idea how the cost of a permit connects onto the expense of caring for injured motorcyclists but it isn’t unreasonable to ask riders to defray a little of the collective cost of using that form of transportation.
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We can draw parallels all day but that still doesn’t equate conditions in Montreal with conditions in New York City.
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The three women accused in the smoke-bombing incident on May 10 have been released on bail with conditions that include never using the metro and keeping a curfew of 9 p.m.
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Ephraim
But they can still use the bus and the train? Shouldn’t they have been kept off of all mass transport? I actually think that the bail they got is pretty minimal considering the charges that are being laid against them. If the charges stick, they may have ruined their own lives, with any charge carrying that particular word, it will be tough to travel, ever.
Honestly, I wish that people would think long and hard before doing things that rash without consideration of their future.
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Legal experts are saying that Bill 78 tramples fundamental constitutional rights.
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St-Henri
Bill 101 also tramples fundamental constitutional rights but the same gang of yahoos who are upset today run around town trying to enforce it.
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Kate
It’s been remarked here recently (see comments to this entry) that most hardline language demonstrators and PQ stalwarts are gray-haired, whereas most of the demonstrators in the protests against tuition hikes – and now against Bill 78 – are of college and university age.
Not the same demographic at all – different generations responding to different problems.
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Somewhat buried by the massive response to Bill 78, the city’s law against masks was adopted Friday afternoon by city council.
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qatzelok
Without a mask on, anyone can identify who the protestors are. This includes the mafia best-friends of the mayor. What a great law for the mafia this is. Soon, “uppity” people will begin disappearing. Thanks a lot, Boo-boo MaTremblay.
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dwgs
qatzelok, while I don`t often agree with you I usually just file it under `different strokes` but really? I mean really? This is a stupid law that I disagree with but the idea of Tremblay unleashing armies of Mafia hitmen? Surely even you admit that’s a bit over the top.
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Qatzel Ok
Both Tremblay and Charest do business with the mafia. They are friends, and co-conspirators. Why do you trust the mafia? You do realize that the very definition of fascism is the collaboration of government-corporations-banks-mafia? That’s why this anti-mask law is being proposed: to unleash the goons on students.
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Bill Binns
Anyone in Quebec who has had a house built or their driveway repaved in the last 50 years has “done business with the mafia”.
I’m pretty sure the whole intent behind the mask ban is catching people who are committing violence. The metro bombers were caught by ordinary citizens with cell phone cameras. Not scary government surveillance drones, just ordinary people who saw a crime committed and did something.
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Bill Binns
Btw…All but one of the smoke bombers are out on bail. A week in jail. I suspect thats all they will do.
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Kate
Terrible, isn’t it? They really need a short sharp shock (TM Margaret Thatcher) – two or three years in solitary ought to do it, maybe with occasional “visits” from their jailers, nudge nudge, know what I mean? Then there’d be no more nonsense out of THEM.
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qatzelok
Near the end of the Easter Island civilization, there were “dead enders” defending the right of the Elite to continue cutting down trees to move those giant statues. Right to extinction, they defended their stupid civilization.
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Kate
I’ve read “Collapse” too, and Easter Island is a great metaphor. I suppose they expected their gods to come bail them out till the last minute. I imagine there are plenty of modern people thinking along the same lines.
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dwgs
Would it be possible to get a citation for that Easter Island theory?
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Kevin
Why, like all those modern students expecting the working gods ti pick up the tab for their free education and not complain about it? Or Greeks expecting Germany to bail them out of their debt?
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Kate
dwgs, I don’t know where qatzelok read about it, but chapter 2 of Jared Diamond’s “Collapse” ponders the Easter Islanders’ destruction of their ecosystem as an example of how humans can follow a mistaken train of thought until they’ve destroyed their own habitat. The islanders were not literate so left no written records of their decline, but archaeology shows that they felled every tree on the island to enable them to build more and bigger stone heads. It was a marginally fertile island anyway, so removing the trees caused erosion and the loss of more food species and finally they all died.
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qatzelok
You can read about the Great Easter Island civilization (and many other human civilizations that have died out from superstition/environmental destruction) here:
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Kate
qatzelok, that’s also an excellent book, and a terser read than Jared Diamond’s.
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The BBC has a short piece on Montreal: One Square Mile of Canada – with lots of subtle mistakes and clichés, alas. It’s presented by Lyse Doucet, a longtime BBC reporter, who’s from New Brunswick.
For starters – the Main is anything but “sweeping” – that makes it sound like a grand Paris boulevard rather than the cranky one-way thoroughfare it actually is …”once the symbolic dividing line between the city’s French and English speaking communities” – again a cliché and never really true: anglos lived in Hochelaga and Rosemont, francophones in Ville Émard and Verdun and all over … “the Quartier Chinois, or Chinese quarter” – actually, we call it Chinatown, and it’s more a small shopping area now than a “quarter” where many people live.
“Maple Spring”? That translates printemps d’érable which was mostly just a pun on printemps arabe. And translating Garde-Manger as “The Larder” is just kind of weird.
And hey – Mount Royal is not a hill.
But “the mighty St. Lawrence River” – it’s always fun to spot one of those.
Nice chat with Mike Finnerty though.
(I can’t tell whether this is a piece in itself, or a teaser for a longer report. But I do know it’s part of a series on Canada that the network is doing.)
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Raoul
cmon its the BBC… have you ever seen their depiction of americans in doctor who? theyre dressed in red, white and blue, junk-food all over the place, and they seem think american household are as cramped as your typical english flat.
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carswell
«And hey – Mount Royal is not a hill.»
Well, it’s not a mountain in any geological sense. More like a volcanic plug that, when it was formed, didn’t even break the earth’s surface. And it *is* officially one of the Monteregian Hills, so at least Doucet has geological science on her side.
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Kate
carswell, are you trying to pollute my Montreal pride with geological facts?
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jeather
Geological science is, in this case, wrong. They’re not facts, they are mistakes that will clearly be rectified once geologists have learned the truth.
Seriously, Kate, you need to moderate this community better. It’s one thing to have people fighting all out about tuition hikes, but it’s another to have them polluting your comment threads with heresies like “Mount Royal is not a mountain” or “Mount Royal is officially a hill”.
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C_Erb
I honestly don’t think I can continue reading this blog until that comment has been removed and the commenter banned from ever posting again. Besides, these so-called “facts” are flimsy at best. I for one have never heard of these “Monteregian Hills” and quite frankly, have already heard enough about them.
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walkerp
Not only is Mont Royal a mountain, but it’s two mountains! Hell, it’s practically a mountain range.
[good Friday stuff, people. :) ]
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Spock
Mount Royal… Yeah, mountain… uhuh, yup.
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carswell
«Not only is Mont Royal a mountain, but it’s two mountains! Hell, it’s practically a mountain range.»
Actually, in that case it’d be three: the cross summit, the Westmount summit and the Outremont summit.
Guess you all aren’t interested in hearing about the claim that the Laurentians aren’t a range or even mountains but rather the crenelated edge of the Canadian Shield, eh?
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Anto
If it’s not a mountain, what did I climb last Sunday, huh?
That’s where your “logic” fails.
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MB
After the first hike of the season, it sure *feels* like a mountain. #winterpadding
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It’s not called Mount Royal because it’s a mountain. It’s called that because the bump is a great location to get … you know… excited.
I bet you think Beaver Lake was named after flat-tailed rodents too.
And the Big O. Do I really need to be more obvious? Cum on!
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Spock
Its a small hill, a slight bump in the terrain.
You can’t even build anything taller than 200m or risk blocking the view…
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The 24th night demo saw thousands of people pour into the street as the debate on Bill 78 at the National Assembly pondered heavy fines for pickets at CEGEPs and universities and for many categories of demonstration. Although big, the demo was peaceful and there were no arrests.
100,000 signatures are needed by 4 p.m. to defeat Bill 78: loi78.com.
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Anto
@Kate: Where is the quota of 100 000 signatures by 4pm from?
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Kate
Saw that tweeted. Not sure of the origins, let me look around a bit.
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Bill Binns
No arrests. Our supposedly blood thirsty, Nazi, jack booted, thug police force calmly followed the group around the city all night. Literally, all night. The Gazette says it broke up at 3:30 AM.
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qatzelok
As Bill suggests, there is nothing fascist about passing laws to protect a corrupt government that’s in bed with industry/the mafia. Forcing the idle Elite to actually work for a living, on the other hand, is sure to inspire some scary Hollywood movies.
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Mark
This also shows that the vast majority of protesters are completely peaceful. Perhaps the police didn’t bother getting rough because they won’t even have to resort to shady tactics if 78 passes.
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La Presse says the summer will be chilly and wet with lots of storms, based on the predictions of U.S. site AccuWeather and the recurrence of El Niño, while the Journal says it will be hot and dry, based on quotes from an Environment Canada authority.
The Montreal City Weblog summer weather prediction is that it will be a mix: sometimes the one, sometimes the other.
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Kris
Ma boule de cristal est d’accord avec les prédictions de MCW.
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Spock
Global warming…
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Kate
What about it?
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qatzelok
Global warming, with a 60% chance of extinction.
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ant6n
I bet hot and humid (ugh)
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Spock
Global warming doesn’t explain snow along the Lebanese coast last winter or in the mountains around Dubai two years back…
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Kate
Yeah, you’re right. Global warming’s all a big fake plot by evil left-wing environmentalists who want to interfere with the profits made by multinational corporations. I see the light now.
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Jaddle
Actually, it does just that, Spock. Rising GLOBAL temperatures result in more extreme and unpredictable weather – both extreme heat AND cold. I’m tired of people confusing weather and climate like this…
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Spock
OK so there is global warming.
How to you explain the “Little Ice Age” of the 1890s when the Thames froze over or it snowed in Quebec City in the middle of June.
How to you explain the droughts of the 8th century when much of Europe was turned into a dustbowl…
Temperature swings and extreme climates are what makes the Earth, the Earth!
To think that man is able to change something like this all by himself is arrogant and reeks of man’s illusions of grandeur.
Only human’s can think they are that special and powerful…
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Kate
One word for you, Spock: Anthropocene.
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ant6n
They say sugar makes you fat. But I almost eat no sugar, and still I’m fat. And my friend who eats lots of chocolate is totally skinny. So clearly this “science” is all just propaganda by the anti-corn lobby.
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Discussions continue at the National Assembly over the special law, Bill 78 – OpenFile has the English of it here.
Jean-François Lisée calls it liberticide. Josée Legault points out the risks of such repression. Ariane Moffatt sings about it. Thousands are marching.
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Jack
Off those three, give me Moffatt off key playing the ukulele.
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Hamza
Is this special law not unlike a Québécois version of Harper’s proroguing parliament? Tell me just one thing that’s solved by this dereliction of duty. Was not debate , just 48 hours ago, about wrongfully denying access to education?
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St-Henri
This law isn’t repression unless you were already breaking the law. This is an ANTI-BULLYING law. You still have the freedom to march, to demonstrate, to associate, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press. There are no jail terms, there is no disbanding of organizations, there are no identity cards, there are no curfews. File your map before you demonstrate and leave the students who want to finish their education alone. If you want change then get your agenda put on the platform of a political party and elect them into power. The student unions have shown that they do not understand how their freedoms are supposed to work and now they are getting a lesson (for free) from an elected government.
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Matthew
Kate, respecting your wishes to keep everything positive, I deleted what I wanted to reply to Hamza. Instead I’m opting for something positive:
Hamza, thanks for all the great laughs over the past few weeks. Your comments, which I couldn’t disagree with more for the most part, are about the only thing that have put a smile on my face during these protests.
See everyone, wasn’t that easy?!
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Anto
Maybe the PLQ’s strategy will work in the short term with people who think a few broken windows is more important than a corrupt government. Maybe they’ll be reelected. But in the long term, all they achieved with the way they reacted to the strike, and now with law 78, is to create a new generation of activists who will remember 2012 for a long time.
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Spock
Its about time.
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St-Henri
Anto – Dealing with corruption of government officials is extremely important and urgently needs to be dealt with. Breaking windows of taxpayers and fellow citizens, delaying them on their way to work, threatening their children who want to learn, saying you want democracy when you represent a small proportion of your constituency and an even smaller proportion of the general populace is equally as corrupt and that is corruption that the special law is addressing. If you want I will march with you demanding a special law punishing corrupt government officials as long as we don’t break any windows.
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Hamza
‘threatening children’ makes me think of reverand lovejoy’s wife.
Laugh it up while you can guys. Your smugness might just triumph this time but your generation’s clock is ticking. And we will remember
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Bill Binns
@Hamza +1 for the Simpson’s reference but given what happened at UQAM two days ago, I think St Henri’s line was accurate.
This “our generation will remember and you will be sorry” line has been cropping up all over the place today. I doubt it. There is something about looking at your first few check stubs from your first real job and seeing in ink how much of your earnings are being handed over to “the people” that makes you feel like maybe you are doing enough.
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Kate
It makes me sad to read anyone glorying in breaking the spirit of youth, but I’ve seen it on the blog and elsewhere in recent days.
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Matthew
“your generation’s clock is ticking”. I am all of 25 and many of my friends have very similar views to my own on this issue. I am tired of the radical left acting as though they speak for everyone under 30. And yes, I use the word radical, because I know of several people who vote for the Bloc, NDP and Liberals federally who agree with Charest on this matter.
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Josh
Matthew, I agree. One of the most galling aspects of this protest movement (and other similar ones that have come before) is its tendency to speak as though they just assume everyone is on their side.
I remember at the Quebec City summit in 2001, a counter summit held by activists alongside the official one. The name of the counter-summit? The Group of Six Billion Summit. Talk about arrogance! I don’t remember voting for anyone who spoke there. That kind of arrogance shows up in lefty protests from time to time still.
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Hamza
Since agreeing with students is grounds for being a radical leftist, I’ll indulge in a little radicalism. But just this once.
Agreeing with Charest demonstrates a disturbing willingness to submit to authourity , regardless of everything the facts have demonstrated over these past months. The man pals around with people who take envelopes from the mafia, ruled for ten years over this province without dealing with the budget, taxes or the massive bureaucracy, wants to basically sell the entire north of the province to energy companies and is the number one reason that any of us are in this mess.
This is your hero? This is who you call your leader? Because the ADQ are wingnuts and the PQ are a joke, he’s gotten himself elected. Well done. Stephen Harper got himself elected too. Should we accept everything he says too? He’s our prime minister after all.
We as citizens do not have to swallow every bit of filth that emerges from the Assemblie Nationale. Dissent is democracy folks.
But no, somehow we’ll just all magically shut up , go to class (cancelled till August), pay our taxes and happily swallow everything else once this law passes. Just relax. Cool off. Quebec is fine. Trust in Charest.
Thanks.
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Hamza
I’m 28, for the record, and Matt , if you think that everything that’s happened over the past two years, from Egypt to Occupy and now this, is just leftist nonsense, then you’re just as f’d as the older generation.
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Matthew
Hamza, wow. “Since agreeing with students is grounds for being a radical leftist”…first of all not all students think the same. Get that straight. And to compare the Arab Spring with a protest against a $250.00 a year tuition increase protest is deplorable. And thanks for the compliment, you reek of class…I mean CLASSE.
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Matthew
PS I hope every single poster on this weblog has a great long weekend :). Digital group hug anyone?
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Kate
Matthew, if you think the protests have only been about tuition, you’re sadly blinkered. There’s a much deeper criticism of socioeconomic trends going on.
Please don’t insult other commenters and please refrain from ordering people around.
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Kevin
@Hamza
You’re fundamentally wrong on the Budget. The PQ made a series of budgetary decisions in the ’90s that are still affecting us today.
All that construction across Quebec and the deaths of several people when 2 overpasses collapsed: direct result of the PQ slashing Transport Quebec inspection budgets to the bone.Can’t find a doctor? The PQ offered early retirement to doctors in the ’90s while pressuring the College of Physicians to limit admissions.
The PQ budgets of the 90s were short-sighted documents created with one goal in mind, and when that wasn’t achieved, boy did it screw things up for a generation.
But don’t worry too much about the Plan Nord. Newfoundland and Labrador has grander plans for its ‘northern’ development. SNC-Lavalin and other companies is in the process of building not just towns, but entire cities for miners and their families, on a scale about 10x larger than what Charest would like to see.
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Nick 08:45 on 2012/05/19 Permalink
Thanks for underlining this, Kate. The mainstream media is playing up the violence from earlier in the night, but the post-midnight march was very big, and (from what I saw) very peaceful.