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The Maple Spring and the Mafiocracy: Struggling Students Versus “Entitled Elites”
First, we were told for years that we were u201clazyu201d and u201capatheticu201d: Generation MTV, Generation iPod, a techno-savvy but reality-detached deluge of pseudo-humanoids. We were set up to be …
Quebec’s Fight Is Our Fight
The debt obligation of Canadian university students, even with Quebec's proposed 82 percent tuition hike over several years, is dwarfed by the huge university fees and the $1 trillion …
A Monetary Policy for the 99%: Twelve-Year-Old Reformer Goes Viral
Monetary reform - the contention that governments, not banks, should create and lend a nation's money - has rarely even made the news, so this is a first. Either …
Québec’s Student Strike Turning Into a Citizens’ Revolt
the ongoing conflict between the provincial government and striking students and their supporters will go down in history as one of the province's - indeed the country's - biggest …
Québec Suspends Civil Liberties in Response to the Student Strike
In Canada's francophone Province of Quu00e9bec, it is students that have mobilized this year to combat growing austerity plans and, in particular, a post-secondary tuition hike of 82 percent …
Ann Coulter and Blowhard Politics
The reduction of politics today to the simple matter of ensuring that blowhards can utter stupid things is truly pervasive.