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Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests
Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests
Last week, anti-austerity protests in Germany turned the streets of Frankfurt into a veritable horror show as Blockupy supporters dressed as clowns clashed with riot police against a backdrop of flaming cars and utter chaos in what looked like a scene out of Pennywise The Clown Meets Black Hawk Down:
It now appears the Blockupy spirit has migrated across the pond to Montreal, where hundreds of students hit the streets to protest austerity measures drawing the ire of police armed with rubber bullets, tear gas, and sound bombs. Here’s more via RT:
Canadian police used tear gas and reportedly fired rubber bullets and sound bombs at hundreds of students protesting austerity measures at an anti-capitalist rally in Montreal. Thousands took to the streets on Tuesday to protest sweeping education cuts…Many activists wore masks, covering their faces while violating the local bylaw that prohibits covering faces during protests…
The Revolutionary Student Movement organized the Tuesday’s evening march. The group has claimed it is “an association of young Communists and revolutionary anti-capitalists.”
Thousands of students have been boycotting classes to protest against provincial government austerity measures, including new tuition hikes and university cuts.
The protesters reportedly broke car windows, lit flares, and spray painted some stuff, which all would have been ok had they provided police with a schedule initially:
Hydro-Québec Restores Electricity To Most, But 8,500 Still In Dark
Hydro-Québec Restores Electricity To Most, But 8,500 Still In Dark
Freezing rain, high winds and a rapid drop in temperature created a host of problems for people living in the greater Montreal region and elsewhere in southern Quebec.
On Sunday, a dangerous mix of precipitation followed by freezing cold made for extremely slick road conditions.
The weight of the ice that formed on trees caused many to snap, sending large branches down onto sidewalks, roads and power lines.
At the height of the power outages, more than 150,000 Quebecers were without electricity.
Power has been restored to most Hydro-Québec customers, but about 8,500 households and businesses remain in the dark — and could stay that way well into Monday afternoon and even evening, depending on the area.
Hydro-Québec has a map on its website of which neighbourhoods are affected and at what time they expect to have the lights back on. Find out what time the utility expects to restore power by clicking on the voltage sign in your neighbourhood.
In wake of Canada attacks, Toronto police drill for disaster | Reuters
In wake of Canada attacks, Toronto police drill for disaster | Reuters.
(Reuters) – About 100 police, firefighters and other emergency workers held a disaster-response drill in downtown Toronto’s deserted financial district on Sunday following a week that saw two soldiers killed on Canadian soil.
Security in normally relaxed Canada has been tighter in the days since a gunman shot dead a soldier in Ottawa before charging into the parliament building and another man ran over two soldiers with a car, killing one, outside Montreal.
Toronto emergency responders donned oxygen tanks and yellow full-body hazardous material suits shortly after dawn, set up decontamination tents and practiced how they would respond in an office tower that had received a suspicious package.
The drill had long been planned and was not a reaction to the twin attacks that police said had been carried out by men they described as home-grown radicals, officials said.
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