MONTREAL — Scores of people were arrested Friday as Montreal students continued their 10-week-long protest against a planned $325-a-year tuition fee hike.
Students demonstrated outside a job fair for Quebec’s Plan Nord — a major initiative to develop the province’s north — and at least one student was reported injured after clashes with riot police, who used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
TV images showed protesters throwing water and projectiles at police. Riot squad officers responded by charging the assembled crowd with batons, hitting people in the legs and other areas.
“This Plan Nord project is really a plan of piracy, of misappropriation of public funds,” says a statement by CLASSE, the largest anti-hike student group, on its website.
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Students demonstrated outside a job fair for Quebec’s Plan Nord — a major initiative to develop the province’s north — and at least one student was reported injured after clashes with riot police, who used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
TV images showed protesters throwing water and projectiles at police. Riot squad officers responded by charging the assembled crowd with batons, hitting people in the legs and other areas.
“This Plan Nord project is really a plan of piracy, of misappropriation of public funds,” says a statement by CLASSE, the largest anti-hike student group, on its website.
more
Montreal student protests turn violent, eight arrested in police clashes | News | National Post
