This page is no longer updated. I leave it online for archival purposes only.
You’ll find below a list of English-language links about the “Situation in Quebec”. For starters, you should read this wonderful piece by the administrator of Translating the printemps érable.
Here are English versions of two supremely important documents: Règlement P-6 (anti-mask, anti-spontaneous demonstration, etc.) and Bill 78 (bans spontaneous demonstrations, picketing of classrooms, etc.).
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This list is non-exhaustive: it covers the very bare bones of this massive contestation of the neoliberalization of Quebec. Notably, it does not (directly) cover issues like: the effect of the fee hike on racialised, migrant and indigneous students and families, on queers, on people with disabilities, on women, on student-parents, etc. It furthermore does not make the link—being amply made in the street!—between this particular struggle and the on-going fight against the endemic corruption of this province’s government (on all levels). In any case, share your articles in the comments below – let’s keep the list growing!
English-language translation projects providing information and updating on a regular basis:
- Translating the printemps érable (most exhaustive source for news, IMO)
- Rouge squad
English-language media: I recommend McGill Daily, CUTV, openfile, and the beloved media coop. Also check out Rabble’s campus notes.
Angus Johnston (a.k.a studentactivism), a specialist in student movements and an activist in the U.S., has blogged quite a bit about what’s going on. here are some good, short, readable backgrounders:
- Quebec’s new anti-protest law could shut down student associations for years
- Quebec moves toward passage of sweeping anti-protest law
- Quebec’s slapdash cutting of civil liberties
- Riot police and pepper spray at Quebec colleges
- Quebec student strike rolls on
- Student negotiators say QC altered agreement behind their backs
- And more! Just go through the pages of the blog.
this article on the chronicle of higher education website is a great summary: ”the biggest student uprising you’ve never heard of”.
Here are a bunch of articles I have shared/found useful.
OVERVIEWS
- The Guardian – Comment is Free – Quebec student protests mark “Maple Spring”
- Al-Jazeera – In Pictures – Canada’s Student Protests (22 May)
SOLIDARITY
- Rabble – Solidarity and legal support needed
NEGOTIATIONS
- The Gazette – Students may be ready to compromise
P-6
BILL 78
- 2b – Why protest bill 78
- Globe&Mail – Legal experts say QC law tramples rights
- Guardian – Comment is Free – Truncheon law rebounds
- Amnesty International’s report
POLICE VIOLENCE / MASS ARRESTS
- Openfile – More than 500 arrested
- Toronto Star – Brewery takes shot at law 78
- Openfile - Students arrested in buses leaving Victoriaville in legal waiting game
- Huffington Post – I’m not a Quebec protester, but police assaulted me anyway
CASSEROLES
- Forget the Box – It starts in Quebec
COMMENTARY
- Montreal Gazette – Fatigue takes toll on police
- The Guardian – Comment is Free – Canada should heed QC student protests
- New York Times – Our not so friendly northern neighbor
- Waging War on Violence – How students are painting Montreal red
- Outside the Circle – Je t’adore, Montréal (Day 105 of student strike; day 34 of nighttime demos)
FEDERAL POLITICS
MEDIA COVERAGE
- Rabble - Quebec’s students are winning
