YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: Tuition Hike Protest

The fee increase meant an extra $325 a year for the next five years. Making tuition sixteen hundred and twenty five dollars higher in twenty sixteen.

A red fabric square pin has became the symbol of the anti-tuition hike movement.

On November 10th, students from across the province went on strike for the day and marched downtown against the proposed hike.

Over twenty thousand students showed up. It all went peacefully until the very end. 13 students occupied a McGill administration building and were forcefully removed.

Over one hundred riot police came and forced the rest of campus. They used pepper spray and four arrests were made.

Montreal police has denied any wrong doing in the matter. Meanwhile, the Concordia and Mcgill student unions condemned the police action.

Students at Concordia overwhelmingly voted to continue fighting against the tuition increase in November’s CSU by-election.