Quebec: International Attention

Quebec Student Tuition Dept: MONTREAL - Quebec's student strikes, which gained international attention in the spring, now face a pivotal week as students start voting on whether to return to class, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The votes are the latest chapter in an improbable six-month saga that saw Quebec's tuition battle catapulted from the pages of campus newspapers into major foreign media and protesters opposing Quebec student tuition fee hikes demonstrate in Montreal, Wednesday, August 1, 2012, on day one of the provincial election. Quebec's student strikes, which gained international attention in the spring, now face a pivotal week as students start voting on whether to return to class. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes Students in the more militant CLASSE association will vote over a nine-day period, starting Tuesday, on heading back to school when it reopens mid-month. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.