Protesters call on province to divest from English language schools, Police evacuate mall following gas related incident.

Cedric Gallant

Luca Caruso-Moro

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Protesters call on province to divest from English language schools

French-language advocates took to the streets on Saturday demanding the government divert funding to protect the French language.

Mouvement des Jeunes Souverainists organized the march, calling on the Legault government to divest from Dawson College and McGill.

Instead, they want that money to go to French language revival projects, and to convert the former Royal Victoria hospital to an international francophone university.

Police evacuate mall following gas related incident

Police evacuated a shopping mall on Black Friday after a fight allegedly broke out involving so-called irritating gas. 

Shoppers in Galeries d'Anjou in east-end Montreal were asked to leave at around 7:45.

Police say two groups got into an altercation involving some sort of irritating gas, similar to tear gas.  

There were no reported injuries.