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Students have spent the weekend planning strike action.

According to CTV, CEGEP student leaders from around Quebec convened at CEGEP Montmorency to plan out their strike action should a walkout occur.

Plenty of students are already on strike as of last week and more should follow suit in the coming weeks.

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The rotating strikes which were supposed to affect many Montreal daycare centres on Thursday were called off as reported by CTV.

On Wednesday night the union representing the daycare workers announced that talks have advanced. This led to the union calling off the walkout as well as those which were scheduled to take place this Monday and Tuesday.

Just two hours before polls were set to open for the Arts and Science Federation of Associations general election, Chief Electoral Officer Chris Webster resigned.

“It kind of surprises everyone, no one saw this coming,” said VP Internal Schubert Laforest. 

According to Annex A, the bylaws that govern ASFA elections, the executive must take over an election in the circumstance that a CEO is absent. Laforest and President Alex Gordon immediately acted to set up the polling booths, but were one hour late to start.

French universities are leading the way in round two of the battle against Quebec tuition fee hikes.

Over ten thousand students from UQAM and Université Laval are on an unlimited strike. CBC reported that some of the students marched in Montreal yesterday.

According to the Montreal Gazette, students announced they’re willing to miss a semester to protest fee hikes. The province plans to raise university tuition by over one thousand six hundred dollars over the next five years.