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NewsPolice Use Shock Tactics To Squash Anti-Austerity Demo
Montreal police used tear gas and shock tactics to repel demonstrators Saturday evening.
The protest—dubbed “Grosse Manif de Soir” on Facebook—was composed of young people and union delegates from the CSN. -
NewsASFA Council Awards Former President 1/3rd Honorarium
The council of the Arts and Science Federation of Associations at Concordia University partly ignored a motion passed at its annual general meeting of members, and awarded Paul Jerajian an honorarium of $593 for his former role as president.
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NewsReggie’s Renovations Awaiting Final Signatures
Renovations for Reggie’s will begin in a “maximum [of] two weeks” and open in “mid-September” after the Concordia Student Union chose a contractor to complete the million dollar four month project.
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NewsTear Gas Takes Over Downtown May Day Protests
While protests in the U.S. were demanding racial justice, a Montreal May Day protest rallying for workers rights and anti-capitalism was dispersed by police multiple times Friday evening using tear gas and pepper spray, which affected children and other pedestrians.
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NewsEarth Day Protest Fizzles Out
A legal protest against capitalism and austerity ended in under 30 minutes in the Berri-UQÀM metro underground as a police presence deterred the assembly on Earth Day.
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NewsProtesters Served Formal Complaints from Professor Following Hard Picketing
A campaign called “No Tribunals for Students” was created yesterday after several students who picketed a political science class at the beginning of the month were handed formal complaints from faculty.
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NewsLibrarian to Join Senate
Concordia’s Senate, the university’s highest academic decision-making body, approved the addition of a librarian to its voting members yesterday afternoon.
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NewsExtended Deadline Shot Down by Senate
Women’s Studies students won’t have their deadlines officially extended, after Concordia’s Senate informally decided to “accommodate” strikers individually at its meeting on April 17.
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NewsStrikers Occupy Concordia Administration Building
Protesters blockaded Concordia’s Guy-Metro Building and occupied the eighth floor where President Alan Shepard’s office is located earlier this afternoon.
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NewsCSU to Fund Burritoville Coop
Approval to purchase Burritoville as it transitions into a student cooperative passed at the Concordia Student Union (CSU) council on Wednesday night.
