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Masked Canadian Students Barricade Themselves In Montreal University, Police Storm Building

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The students are (still) restless in Canada. Over the past several weeks we’ve documented student protests in Montreal and Quebec City, noting that the Blockupy spirit of raging against anything that can be construed as “austerity” seems to be infectious north of the border. This has led to a number of clashes between students and police including a rather surreal scene in the Quebec City protests where it certainly appeared as though a few protesters may have been shot in the face with tear gas canisters — here’s that clip, for reference:

According to witnesses, students and police were at it again overnight, when hundreds of protesters chanting “free our comrades” (who were arrested earlier in the evening apparently) barricaded themselves inside Montreal university. This dramatic display was the culmination of a series of events this week which began when student “radicals”, upset at the student union’s decision to suspend protests, put on masks and turned the lights on and off in classrooms. Here’s more via RT

The tense night comes after days of disturbances at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where students are protesting the provincial government’s budget cuts.

 

The university administration called in police twice Wednesday, saying the protesters were disrupting classes

 

In a statement, UQAM rector Robert Proulx said acts of intimidation had no place at the university, and that violence and vandalism are unacceptable.

 

"The position of the university is that we are legally obliged to give our courses to students who have the right to go to class and who paid their tuition," he said, CBC reported.

 

Earlier Tuesday the protest of several days at UQAM escalated after the student union voted to suspend the protest. Radically-minded protesters who did not agree with this decision ramped up their action, disrupting classes…

 

Masked people reportedly sang, flicked the lights on and off, erased notes from whiteboards and interrupted classes in other ways. 

Here are the visuals:

 

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Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:40 | 5975713 keremetski
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Maple syrup revolution?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:49 | 5975735 anonymice
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I predict some students are going to be mighty disappointed in Democracy and Freedom of Speech.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:56 | 5975745 macholatte
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In other news …..

The hackers were able to seize control of the television network founded by the French government in 1984, simultaneously hacking 11 channels as well as its website and social media accounts. 

French media groups hold emergency meeting in wake of Isis hacking attack

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/09/french-tv-network-tv5monde-hijacked-by-pro-isis-hackers

 

 

The second wave of immigrants, as some are calling it, is expected even as localities and school systems struggle to absorb about 53,500 children who arrived in the last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, 2014.

39,000 immigrant kids coming to U.S.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/report-more-unaccompanied-minors-on-t...

 

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:03 | 5975779 TeamDepends
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Which microaggression are these poor children the victim of?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:12 | 5975816 Latina Lover
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Of a supposed sovereign Canadian government, controlled by banksters, royals and foreign elites. 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:16 | 5975826 TerminalDebt
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Why does it say Canadian? They are from Quebec, do they even pay Canadian taxes there? Do they even pay taxes? Does collecting Canadian welfare make you a Canadian?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:18 | 5975844 RU-GAY2
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Education is a human right!  And taxpayer funded gender changes!  And abortions!  And soup kitchens and... nah, fuck it we're gonna riot anyway!

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:33 | 5975926 taoJones
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Thank you RG2 for not mentioning BTC :)

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:45 | 5975953 strannick
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Torn between loathing of a militant police force and loathing of entitled francophone Arts students. Think I'll go with the cops on this one.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:57 | 5976018 Latina Lover
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....Till they shoot you in the back for running away from a traffic ticket. Then we will see how much you like militarized cops.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:54 | 5976420 GoinFawr
Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:10 | 5976471 kaiserhoff
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Masked froggie students.  So this is one of those furry costume, group gay sex thingies.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:22 | 5976487 GoinFawr
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You talking from experience are you?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:24 | 5976526 kaiserhoff
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Circling around the toilet bowl,

  isn't that fawr.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:34 | 5976553 BobPaulson
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ZERO news of this in mainstream Canadian media. ZERO.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:41 | 5976582 kaiserhoff
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The media everywhere seem to be in their own bubble.

They only gossip among themselves.  Amazing.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 22:07 | 5977335 Laowei Gweilo
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this is a non-issue outside of socialist Quebec

 

most Canadian students are a lot more worried about their own debt and unemployment and just trying to get job experience than protesting over the austerity of foreign European governments lol

 

there ARE legitimate reasons for Canadians students and recent grads to be in the streets but European austerity shouldn't even be on a Top 5 list... i mean, seriously, Canada has the worst fucking consumer debt of the G8... we could use some effing austerity

 

students on the other hand are fucked outside of nursing or IT because new grad unemployment is so high that it's easy to cherrypick people with 3-4 years experience for entry level positions, let alone actual no-experience entry levels new grads

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:43 | 5976750 nailgunnin4you
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39,000 immigrant kids coming to U.S.

 

 

Ain't no war but the class war faggot.

 

Quit abiding by the mainstream media's current agenda, get pissed off about something the tv is not telling you to be pissed off about you fucking Mork. 

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 00:07 | 5977555 GoinFawr
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No, Mork's dead. Poor Mork.

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 08:24 | 5977968 m13
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only tva, rdi, cbc.ctv etc

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:54 | 5976421 strannick
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Yes, I spoke from my ivory tower heart, not my unbuckled seatbelt mind.

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:29 | 5976541 ZD1
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"....Till they shoot you in the back for running away from a traffic ticket. Then we will see how much you like militarized cops."

 

....Till the spoiled entitled leftists in the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante shoot you in the back for not being a Marxist like them or ou parce que vous ne parlez pas français (or for not speaking French). Then we will see how much you like militarized Marxists and anarchists.

 

Demonstrators marched for over two hours, chanting anti-austerity and anti-capitalist slogans while throwing projectiles. 

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2015/03/thousands-of-students-protest-cuts-in...

 

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:02 | 5976641 seminal1
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Quebec is full of lazy socialists on welfare who are subsidized by Canadian taxpayers in other provinces. 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mark-milke/quebec-subsidized-by-canada_b_50...?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:28 | 5975892 Arktik
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Actually the Quebec jurisdiction has the highest personal and sales tax load in North America. 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:32 | 5975917 TerminalDebt
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comes from being the biggest liberal state in North America

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 20:45 | 5977089 Loup Kib
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Yes they pay taxes to Ottawa, yes they pay taxes, they even pay taxes to Québec, and Welfare in Québec isn't Canadian.  They even breathe air, eat, piss, shit, as you do, but are A+ in maths which you probably aren't.  They can do a lot of other things you probably can't like doing research before spitting nonsense with your ass.  

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 08:39 | 5978005 m13
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NOT A WORD OF TRUTH. THE NONSENSE IS YOUR COMMENT...A+ IN MATH????? REALLY BUT MORE INDEBTED THAN GREECE . WHICH MATH? 

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 21:25 | 5981051 FIAT CON
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I have read before that students in Quebec get a better subsidy than the rest of Canadians, paid for by the tax dollars of Alberta's oil.

Not an expert on this subject.

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:51 | 5975986 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Actually, I control the banksters, Royals, and foreign elites, so the students in Quebec must be pissed off at moi.

 

:|

 

NOTE: Students in Quebec mimic whatever students in France do. In France the anarchists take over the streets every few months in protest over whatever you have to protest about. In Quebec, the student protests are the only way they can protest and still maintain public support. They are not protesting about unemployment and they are arguing that tuition should be FREE/GRATIS the State/Corporate Taxation. This means that they want Corporations taxed by the Federal Government and the transfer payments made to tertiary educators so that they don't have to pay a red cent for their education and go into debt that they have no intention of ever paying back.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:50 | 5976192 PeeramidIdeologies
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Idiot of the universe

Tuition fees have been rising everywhere, but proposing to calculate further increase relative to arbitrary disposable income projections is ridiculous.

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/quebec-to-raise-uni...

I have some amis francais and they are a passionate group who actually have the guts to stand up for themselves. You should take notes.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:10 | 5976265 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Steven Harper and Joe Oliver have stated publically that they are going to balance the books and give corporations tax breaks n' goodies. Steven Harper did not say that he would give Quebec transfer payment top ups so that Quebec tertiary educators could get paid directly by the Federal Government. If Harper took that route to appease Quebec voters the rest of CANADA would demand the same treatment. Moreover, now that Alberta has tanked and the boys n' girls at National Revenue CANADA can't make a killing on the TAR Sands Athabaska Oil Patch taxation revenue, you can wave goodbye to _any_ increases in transfer payments to the parasites and Mafia in Quebec. Furthermore,

I have already gone through tertiaryt education in CANADA and I fully realize that tertiary education is unaffordable/unattainable for the up and coming SERFS that will _never_ make a fucking dime of disposable income in their entire fucking lives. WELCOME to neoliberal HELL, PeeramidIdeologies, how do you like neoliberalism now, BuckO?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:35 | 5976368 PeeramidIdeologies
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Well now that you have shifted your argument to a more appropriate target, I'm better, but still disappointed to see the attitude on this tread. It's a sad day when you guys start lashing out at a bunch of students who are fighting for something more then meaningless green arrows.

Do I enjoy this neoliberal/conservative serfdom hell? No, no I do not.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:12 | 5976481 roadhazard
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ZH'ers hate everyone except Putin.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:29 | 5976532 GoinFawr
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"That experience soured me with absolutists...I've no patience with people who want to sit back and talk about a blueprint for society and do nothing about it." T Douglas

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:36 | 5976568 BobPaulson
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I too am shocked by how people are against seeing people rise up. I literally don't care what they rise up about. Just knowing people are capable of getting off their asses, having an opinion, and then taking matters into their own hands is positive with the current state of NWO mind control.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:00 | 5976637 TheReplacement
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That does seem to be the trick doesn't it?  Like yesterday, cosmos the clown, who has railed about the US gov., NWO, and zionist plans for a long time was practically chanting in ecstacy over that black guy getting shot saying he should've just taken the ticket.

Seems we are overflowing with either mind controlled dupes or double agents.

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 01:19 | 5977653 COSMOS
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Sorry I was juggling my billiard balls.  Hmm I was just pointing out that if everyone decides to run from the cops nothing will ever get accomplished.  What if the guy running is going to kill and rape someone later.  If he had stayed and signed his ticket nothing like this would of happened.  Blame goes all around.

Nothing wrong with railing against the USA govt.  The politicians are taking us down the slippery slide.  As far as the Zionists are concerned I think the public record speaks pretty clearly about their actions.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:09 | 5976653 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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So it certainly seems.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:26 | 5976533 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Students in Quebec should take their beef directly to the Canadian Chartered Banks instead of the business district of Montreal or the Universite' de Montreal. What students in Quebec need is a lesson in attracting MSM attention. Attack the Chartered Banks directly and they will get the attention to their campaign that they really want. If they protest on-campus they will only get minimal attention. Ideologically, their beef is with the Canadian Chartered Banks that have stolen all of the disposable income from all populations in CANADA for over 40 years now. When Quebec students grow-the-fuck-up and start attacking the Canadian Chartered Banks I will lend my support for their efforts. Moreover, if you want to piss the Canadian Establishment off just go directly after their cocksucker Banksters, and then you will really see their Fascist PIGS/Police Officers go medieval right on the MSM news at 6:00pm when the 0.01 are digesting the souls of the poor that they ate that day. This will facilitate the disruption of enzymes in their collective gut and they will stand up and take notice.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 19:03 | 5976798 PeeramidIdeologies
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I up voted this. I hadn't thought of organizing protests in front of the banks. Well played.

As for the rest of you....take a number.

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 09:18 | 5978089 GoinFawr
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So, misdirected?  How's your French?

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 08:25 | 5977973 m13
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show me those 2 guys....

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 20:54 | 5977130 Loup Kib
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So, poor little tortured thing, why don't you separate from Québec once and for all ?!?  I won't object.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:07 | 5976459 Whalley World
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And a prime minister with his head up Nuttinyahoo's ass.  We used to be peacekeepers, now fully supporting Nazi and Fascist forces worldwide.  How far we have fallen.

And junior dufuss Justin Trudeau is upset that Syria's Assad uses chemical weapons on his own people.  Either this bozo is stupid, or a liar.  Pierre would not be amused I am sure.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:43 | 5976589 ZD1
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"And a prime minister with his head up Nuttinyahoo's ass.  We used to be peacekeepers"

Canada is full of leftist burqa wearing doofuses whose heads are up their Muslim master's asses and who love authoritarian, totalitarian, dictatorial Marxist pigs. 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:10 | 5976655 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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You sound like a wonderful alternative we could all look up to.

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 01:21 | 5977656 COSMOS
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I definitely dont look up to you as a wonderful alternative Lars Lee.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:04 | 5975781 0b1knob
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How do they know they are students?   I bet over half of them are just there for the entertainment or are being paid to be there like the anit-police protestors Soros pays for in the US.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:10 | 5975806 Latina Lover
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They are likely genuine students.  The French Canadians, unlike the English Canadians, are not cowards, having the guts and balls to stand up to their corrupt elitist government.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:17 | 5975837 Harbanger
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We'll know if they're french by how fast they surrender.'

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:20 | 5975853 Latina Lover
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They are not the European French. They are the sons and daughters of the toughest, most resilient and entrepreneurial French, who left europe to seek better opportunities hundreds of years ago.  Besides, the women are also better looking.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:24 | 5975874 Headbanger
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And they shave!

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:59 | 5976024 Latina Lover
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Yes, they do, especially creative when it comes to waxing their private parts.  I have seen some amazing designs, LOL>

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:06 | 5976050 Harbanger
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I think he meant their armpits and mustaches, Latina. Only a fag admires a womans twat hair designs.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:17 | 5976103 Son of Loki
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As long as they don't have hairy nipples, I'm game!

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:15 | 5976665 Latina Lover
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Quoting Harbanger, "Only a fag admires a womans twat hair designs."

Really?  How many gay men do you know that stare at women's twats? Seems to me that by definition gay men have little interest in womens twats. Or did you mean cigarettes or pieces of burning wood?

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:44 | 5976751 Harbanger
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Fag is a state of mind, it's not any of the definitions you looked up.  You need to brush-up on your American slang, it's a giveaway.  Hipsters for example can be fags, but not necessarily gay.  Putin for example shaves his chest, but I don't think he's gay.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 19:08 | 5976821 Latina Lover
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Gee, I wonder who gave me the down-vote, heh heh.  Peace Bro.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 19:13 | 5976835 Harbanger
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Me. Of course, I'm just bringing out the fag in you so understand what it means. You know? kinda like your chickish response.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:25 | 5975879 Harbanger
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There's only one way to know for sure.  Raise your right hand if you like the French ... raise both hands if you are French.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:18 | 5975841 TerminalDebt
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Really? French non-cowards?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:40 | 5975948 oldmanofthesee
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Well, think about this! The French raised concerns about what Obumnuts was giving away to the Iranians, in the negotiations. THE FRENCH! Brings to mind a Putin quote I read here, couple of months ago. "Negotiating with Obama, is like playing chess with a pigeon. He knocks over the pieces, shits all over the board, then struts around, claiming victory."

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:18 | 5975842 NotApplicable
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...and demand more free shit.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:18 | 5975845 philosophers bone
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War Measures Act (1970)

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:35 | 5975938 armageddon addahere
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Except during WW1 and  WW2, when the German jack boots were marching in Paris and the brave Quebecois fought to stay out of the army.

Charles DeGaulle was a brave general but he was not brave enough to shout "Vive le France libre! Vive le Quebec libre!" in Quebec in 1942.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:11 | 5976475 Whalley World
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Perhaps they did not want to give their lives for the bankers who started and funded WW1 part 2.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:03 | 5976040 Crash N. Burn
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"They are likely genuine students."

 

 Agreed, the school on the other hand is known for:

"ultra-left wing/separatist philosophy and is a supporter of big government, entitlements and higher taxes.
..... dreamers, under-performers, fantasists and student layabouts that are the hallmark of UQAM."

Race for UQAM rectorship absolutely fabulous

A UQAM degree, almost guaranteed to get your resume tossed in the garbage.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:02 | 5976640 TheReplacement
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Yeah like when that girl got shot in the face with teargas at point blank range they ran away instead of taking the shooter apart by the limbs, side by each.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:31 | 5975911 Arktik
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The police admitted that they had undercover police starting riots with on duty police, all in the name od order safety of course. There's a false flag for you.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:45 | 5976743 nailgunnin4you
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Without cheap unis sunsidised by non-students, how are students supposed to learn? Reading books or some shit? Fuck that.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 23:44 | 5977533 Crash Overide
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Is is just me or does it seem like a lot of people are pissed off all over the world for various reasons whether you agree with them or not...

Planet Earth be bring the ruckus.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:00 | 5976015 A Nanny Moose
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they just want more sunlight, but the oaks aren't listening.

Fri, 04/10/2015 - 03:59 | 5977732 A Nanny Moose
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awe...two people don't like Rush? What's not to like?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:40 | 5975714 lolmao500
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Stupid students cry about tuition fees rising like 100-200$ while they all have cars and iphones with 60$/month bills... LOL

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:43 | 5975725 KnuckleDragger-X
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Don't fuck with our socialist lifestyle.....

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:50 | 5975739 Harbanger
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Or we'll burn it all down. 

But then you'll have even less than before.

It's our right.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:30 | 5975904 JuliaS
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"Free" healthcare must be getting to their heads.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:49 | 5975736 Skateboarder
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+infinity lolmao. All the while not concentrating on subject matter but rather on not doing any work (work != job). "Hey, keep our tuition costs down. *takes bongrip*... You greedy capitalist bastards. *drinks lite beer*... we're trying to study here! *goes on strike*"

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:08 | 5975797 LawsofPhysics
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I have one in college now so I have done a lot of research into this recently.

Couple of points;

1) not all majors are created equally.

2) why all the fucking administrators?  When I was in school in the 90's the Faculty:Administrator ratio was 30:1, now it's 1:1.  Fire some of these stuffed shirts already.

3) fees, fees, and more fees...  in general, it would appear that, yet again, when the government subsidizes something they complete fucking destroy it.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:49 | 5975982 European American
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Fees, fees and more fees.

Somebody has to pay for the personal "human resource" provided for every student who has had their feelings hurt. Imagine the trama relief poviders and disaster response units needed for the students that were threatened by the campus SWAT teams, especially when they were told their punishment would be to take away their smart phones, i.e. no more "selfes" behind the barracades, sitting in the Deans office chair...how will they cope?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:19 | 5976113 game theory
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The whole explosion of college/university costs with overpaid administrators and faculty has been called a bubble...and yet it shows no signs of stopping yet.  Krugman is partially to blame for this...he called for a "learning society" (one of his many utopian fantasies). 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:30 | 5976145 Skateboarder
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Good luck to your kid, and to dad for weathering the new age of kollege.

At my alma mater (UC Davis, home of pepper spray cop), tuition went from ~$900/qtr in the 02-03 year, to ~$1800/qtr in the 06-07 year when I joined, to ~2400/qtr in the 09-10 year when I finished studying engineering, and ~$3100/qtr in the 10-11 year when I got the paper (luckily I was out and working for the majority of that year). That was the era of mega-rape of % increases. The middle class was fucking looted, point blank, while incomes stagnated.

Regarding 'not all majors are created equally', I [personally] didn't known any engineering students who had the time to go protest tuition increases.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:46 | 5976164 LawsofPhysics
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My chemical engineering degree cost less than $8,000 total tuition and fees.

I never had time to protest, I worked full time and had money for rent and playing/investment after paying for school.  Life is about choices, and living with the consequences of your choices.  Of course, it's hard to blame students who are smart enough to recognize massive fraud by their own leadership and yet no one goes to prison. This is the moral hazard peter schiff was jumping up and down about in 2009.

The purchasing power of your wage also matters.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:31 | 5976352 Skateboarder
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When you went to kollege, your wages, howerver little, had far more purchasing power.

Inflation on everything else except wages - lower purchasing power, regardless of wage rate/qty. Young people are now stuck between a free-falling mountain and a hard place. Don't get kollege degree -> no one will hire you. Any small businesses with people of good character that might have hired you have likely gone out of business in the last decade. Get kollege degree without immediately employable skills -> compete with jillions of others like you with no employable skills in field of study -> no of you get hired in field of study -> pursue part-time/shitty jobs, make beer and weed money. Get kollege degree with immediately employable skills -> boomers and old farts can't retire because "what retirement?" -> you're not hired.

In my opinion, the only successful protest happens through non-participation (whose power is not understood or revered by most), individually at first, then en-masse. Only people who truly want liberty will choose that route. As you say, life is about making choices and living with the consequences. It's important to remember that sometimes there will be no good consequences, no matter how well-thought-out the choices.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:15 | 5976497 Condition 1SQ
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But engineering is HARD, waaaah!

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:14 | 5975825 ZeroPower
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This "place of higher learning" is called UQAM and it's a truly shitty "university". If you'd like to learn about the fur trade of the quebekers from 1700 and how to become a separatist piece of shit, then by all means, apply to this joke of a school.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:33 | 5975891 Kirk2NCC1701
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At my Alma Mater, a prof in Anthropology 020 taught that the Beaver trade was widespread and profitable in both Upper and Lower Canada.

Canadian beaver pelts were very popular in France, and the most popular one was the 'Greasy Beaver'.  Some claim that this is mistaken for the 'Beaver Gris' (Gray Beaver), but I can't see a Parisian paying good money for a gray beaver.

This is a true story.  Got it 1st hand from my roommate in my freshman year.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:36 | 5975936 philosophers bone
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Beaver major;  Muff Diving minor

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:44 | 5975961 Kirk2NCC1701
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Clearly you're misinformed, but like to shoot from the hip.

These students are demonstrating the rise of a US phenomenon that is now infecting Canadian universities: the unwarranted rise in university administration, and concurrent rise in all fees -- which are disproportionate to the real economy. 

Do you know where most of the money that universities raise, goes to?  Wall St (US) and Bay St (Canada).  I know this for FACT.

Unlike the pansies in the US or the rest of Canada, these Quebeckers actually have the Civil Courage to actually USE their civil rights, instead of just talking or blogging as but them. 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:26 | 5976134 headhunt
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Not to Wall Street but to the salaries and pensions of the Profs and government employees on campus.

Wall Street takes their cut for laundering it.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:55 | 5976224 chunga
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As a chronic internet complainer myself, it's refreshing to see some genuine disobedience for a change.

I think we're in the minority on this Capt'. 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:41 | 5975718 Divine Wind
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I wonder how many of these students are majoring in crap like Gender Studies and Women's Issues ?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:46 | 5975731 McMolotov
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It's spelled "Womyn," you sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot!

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:51 | 5975738 astoriajoe
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you forgot patriarchal

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:39 | 5975942 zuuma
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obviously, you're all a bit confused.

"Gender Studies" degree is for pouring coffee as a barista.

You can identify them from their nose rings.

"Womyn's Studies" degree is for opening a Womyn's Studies Shop.

Now, some of the Womyn's Studies people also have nose rings, but are easily distinguishable because they also have nipple & clit rings and dance around a large pole in their "shop"

Many of my friends & I enjoy a vist to a Womyn's Studys shop after a ball game in order to study them.

Just tuck a dollar in that G-string.  They have big loans, you know.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:55 | 5976005 Harbanger
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Nose rings are useful.  If you tie a little string to it they follow you around.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:52 | 5975744 Skateboarder
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Indeed. Saying 'woman' with 'man' is at least one milliaggression.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:04 | 5975784 FreeMoney
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how about "Commie, pinko, fag, bed wetting, liberal" ?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:21 | 5975860 NotApplicable
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*Triggered*

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:31 | 5975915 JuliaS
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Vermin rights studies.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:05 | 5976046 A Nanny Moose
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If I were an estrogen based parasite, I might feel micro-agressed against by your attempt to defend my gender, thus implying that I am not capable of defending myself.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:39 | 5976376 taketheredpill
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Doesn't matter what degree if all anybody can get is Starbucks.  It's bad out there, even in Canada.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:42 | 5975720 RickTome
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Turning the lights on and off? Shoot first ask questions later thats pretty much terrorism.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:10 | 5976075 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Never mind the domestic terrorism charges for turning the lights on and off when you have a National Emergency in terms of the chalkboard being wiped. The State educators cannot have their indoctrination summarily wiped off of a chalkboard without some sort of National Emergency being declared and riot squads/goons/SWAT Team #6 being dispatched. Quebec is not like the rest of English CANADA, eh. Quebec Values Charter requires that all students are enculturated into Quebec Fascism/Totalitarianism via doctrine espoused by Fascist Rome Italy and the Roman Catholic Church Pontificate Francis, as well as the anarchists in France.

 

NOTE: Quebec has France envy!

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:44 | 5975728 astoriajoe
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This is all seems so 60s.  5 decades and so little innovation in the protest movement.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:56 | 5975755 Shizzmoney
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What do you want them to do? Have a "shit-in"?

On second thought: that's not actually a bad idea.  We should all go to the Goldman Sachs building and make a deposit. 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:16 | 5975831 Conax
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For a more meaningful gesture load up at a taco stand then scarf a box of ex-lax, then head on down to Golem Sucks.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:59 | 5975773 Harbanger
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Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Ironically the hippies are now in power so they are "the man" they said you should never trust.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:33 | 5975923 Ignatius
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"Ironically the hippies are now in power..."

You truly are fucking stupid.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:47 | 5975732 davidalan1
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That fucking point blank head shot to the unarmed female red head was a bit disturbing to say the least.

 

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:05 | 5975789 chunga
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No kidding huh?

That cop had to be trying to hurt her. That gun can't be designed for close range like that.

The liquid pepper spray that she got hosed down with seconds later seems a tad less lethal.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:22 | 5975868 davidalan1
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and I thought teargas was a long distance deterrant..sheesh wouldnt be surprise if the was made blind by the idiot.

 

The new norm i guess

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:42 | 5975951 ceilidh_trail
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Pretty decent risk of brain trauma from that thing hitting her skull at such close range. The cop should be tracked down and prosecuted. From what I see on the video, he was way out of line.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:06 | 5976056 chunga
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If somebody gets a badge number or other positive ID I bet there is at least a lawsuit. Typically, these cops are great sleuths at finding perpetrators except when it's one of them, in that case normally nobody is ever found.

I bet the manufacturer of that launcher spells out very clearly that doing what he did should never be done, because serious injuries or death is very likely. It's not reasonable to watch the video and come away with anything but he intended to shoot her directly in the face, and then did just that.

Actually it probably is reasonable to some, because she and her friends picked the wrong matriculation, are liberals, or just plain had it coming for protesting. You protest...you get shot in the face and that's that.

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:37 | 5976372 taketheredpill
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Doesn't matter what manufacturer says if cops read IDF manuals on how to maim/kill with "non-lethal" weapons.  1) Point at Face 2) Pull trigger 3) say "sorry".  Pretty sure US cops have gone abroad for "training" in Israel.

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:49 | 5975737 GoldenDonuts
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Shouldn't these morons be studying for their Art History or Feminist theory finals? 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:35 | 5976370 Peterus
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They are. These are advanced classes in neo-marxism.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:54 | 5975747 anonymice
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And no Russian ambassador handing out cookies to student protestors either. 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:14 | 5975824 Latina Lover
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I am waiting for a Russian vice president to hand out cookies, in the name of democracy of course.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:37 | 5975941 Max Steel
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hahahaha + 100

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:54 | 5975748 SmittyinLA
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deport those pigs to Syriza

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:54 | 5975750 Bunga Bunga
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Broken windows, Krugman does approve this measure.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:55 | 5975756 kchrisc
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This is you on government. This is government on you.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

Government, the drug that is addicted to killing you. Just say no.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:35 | 5976366 Peterus
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First - stop current predation. Second - fortify so the same shit can't be easily brought back (for example USA constitution, OK it got violeted bad, but it took quite a long time to get it so perverted). Third - prosecute all those responsible. It'd be nice to get as much back as possible, though it's better to have one bankster run away than to get him and single innocent too. Getting it all is of course impossible. Even with all found guilty stripped of everything and than working in uranium mines until death... it would still fall far short of the extreme amount of damage done by decades of institutionalized theft.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:56 | 5975761 czarangelus
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The System is streched so taut now it can't even allow the tiniest deviation or the whole thing might explode.

Naturally, they're too stupid to realize that the very extremist measures they're using to try to save the System is exactly what will guarantee its destruction.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:23 | 5975872 NotApplicable
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Isn't divide and conquer wonderful?

Here's a visual demonstration.

http://i.imgur.com/aJ90csT.webm

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:58 | 5976632 El Vaquero
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You mean that people protesting police brutality getting brutalized by the police might just push them a tad bit further in the direction towards open insurrection?  That kind of thing?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 13:56 | 5975763 badameli
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I think this has more to do with the kickbacks and corruption problems the province has WRT construction and giveaways to the older generations.

 

While I don't believe that Quebec has high tuition levels, in this day and age - if you don't fight for your scrap it will be allocated to another group. Best thing you can do is make sure you get ahead while the country goes bankrupt.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:11 | 5975811 cigarEngineer
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The safer way to do this is to wait them out. hungry, thirsty, sleep-deprived defenders are less dangerous. this is another example of unnecessary escalation by government that makes us less safe. You may be concerned about using the building productively tomorrow, but safety is more important.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:16 | 5975833 yellowsub
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It goes to show you that Americans are complacent with all the gov't handouts when even Canadians are violently protesting...

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:45 | 5976600 lakecity55
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Mah kable teevee still workx. There is no problem.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:30 | 5975903 madcows
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I'm sorry, what is this all about?  Rioting for the sake of rioting?

What are these morons so upset about?

Note how stupid they are.  They go right after the guys wearing riot gear, and armed with tear gas and pepper spray.

The dumb chick that got it in the face will probably sue.

Fucking socialists, think everything should be free, and noone has to work.

Hey, dummies, nothing's free, and your government spent all the money.  You should have been paying attention and voting them out, instead of acting like immature babies, drinking and getting stoned.

How long until america's slummiest start doing the same thing here.  f-ing losers.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:48 | 5975976 ceilidh_trail
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Why exactly did the "dumb chick" deserve to be shot in the face? For standing there protesting? For expressing her point of view? You know, you just did the same thing. Should you be shot? What if that was your kid? She was doing NOTHING threatening from what I saw on the video. Don't show everyone here what a dumbshit you are.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:57 | 5976016 madcows
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hardly what I'd call a peaceful, unthreatening protest.  They're right up in the cops face, shoving them.  That's a dumb move.  If you're partaking in a large protest, shoving cops, smashing windows, etc...  and you get up in the cops face and threaten him, you should expect him to fire tear gas in your eyes.  She's a dumbass.  If my kid did the same thing, I'd call him a dumbass too.  Stupid people doing stupid things.

oh, and she was hit with tear gas.  No bullets.  her eyes are going to sting for a while.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:14 | 5976082 Charming Anarchist
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If my kid did that, I would ask him:  "So, who paid you to be an agent provocateur? and How much did they pay you to pull that stunt??" punctuated with "ARE YOU A FUCKING IDIOT???"

Note how stupid YOU are you can not see this is a flase flag. 

What is this all about???   This is a diversion from important things that are blacked out by the news corps.  This is diverting the public's attention from things that are taking place on Canadian and Quebec soil.

 

For those of you who see this event as more than an opportunity to sling childish anti-French jokes around, I encourage you to observe and learn.  Pay close attention to how the statesmen and the agent-provocateurs operate.  That is the gift Canadians/Quebecois are giving you:  a window into what is coming to a theater near you.

These things have been happening on Canadian soil from time immemorial.  French Canadians are alive in North America because their fore-fathers had the wisdom to recognize lies and to resist.  They still have that ability today.  Most French Canadians recognize false flags from a mile away and they laugh at stupid non-French Canadians who suck up the narrative.  There are 2 cultures passing eachother like ships in the night. 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:34 | 5976365 taketheredpill
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Quebec is the best thing about Canada.  Politically/Socially it has made assimilation into the US Borg impossible.  Nice to see people with balls (ovaries?) actually take a chance of arrest and/or beating as opposed to firing off a strongly worded comment.

SEND AND SIP.

 

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 18:00 | 5976635 seminal1
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Quebec is the Greece of Canada. Quebec is full of lazy socialists on welfare who are subsidized by the rest of Canadian taxpayers in other provinces. 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mark-milke/quebec-subsidized-by-canada_b_50...?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:44 | 5976594 roadhazard
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Oh Jesus fucking Christ, another FALSE FLAG. You clowns crack me up no end.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 14:55 | 5976003 European American
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It would be easy to get the students inside in a total panic and come running out for their lives. Threaten to cut off the wifi service in the building.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:03 | 5976026 walküre
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Does Quebec have a Central Bank? No? These kids are barking at the wrong tree. If they studied history at all, they would know that Berkely accomplished nothing.

While these kids are protesting, their federal government is ramming through the Canadian equivalent to Patriot Acts 1 & 2 and sending more military into "the war with ISIS".

Canada will also send troops into Ukraine when that war gets hot(ter). They might even try and enlist some of these burnt out students for war when Harper brings in draft legislation.

Harper is definitely next in line to receive the Nobel Peace Prize!

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 17:42 | 5976587 lakecity55
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No doubt the protestors are funded by a deep source Soros foundation to keep them from attacking the Banksters.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:02 | 5976033 Panic Mode
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Education is just one of the ways to acquire skill. It doesn't mean they have a better clear head thinking. Education is so overrated and illusional.

 

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:15 | 5976094 headhunt
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Education does not happen at these institutions of higher learning any longer - indoctrination is the curriculum.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:10 | 5976077 headhunt
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More 'freeshitters' demanding more free shit.

Different country same stink.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 19:55 | 5976973 rwe2late
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 yeah,

education shouldn't be free for students.

better to have the right-wing Canadian government spend the money to send troops and weapons to Afghanistan and Ukraine.

Or maybe, subsidize the TBTF banksters.

moron

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:19 | 5976114 Son of Loki
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In Merika kids only riot when they fire the football coach.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:33 | 5976163 Jacksons Ghost
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Riots for more Gov't. rofl! We are doomed.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 15:42 | 5976194 Solio
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Forever increasing radiation, bank frauds,  loss of Rule of Law, and politicians with Principles are mere flesh wounds, really...

Oh, look a butterfly!

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:13 | 5976275 QQQBall
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Good quality glass there.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 16:28 | 5976342 tarabel
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The overprivileged are revolting!!!

Run for your lives.

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