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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 20/05/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1147">Roger Annis</a></span>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/3393">Montreal</a></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>The strike of post-secondary students in Quebec has taken a dramatic turn with the May 18 approval by the provincial government of a special law to cancel the school year at strike-bound institutions and outlaw protest activity deemed disruptive of institutions not participating in the strike.</p>
<p>Details of Bill 78 were unveiled the day before and debated in a special, overnight session of Quebec’s National Assembly. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51076" target="_blank">read more</a></p>