student debt

Zombies rise to protest tuition debt

Natascia Lypny — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:37:53 +0000

Halifax - Remember, remember, the fifth of November: gunpowder, treason and … zombies?

Guy Fawkes wasn’t a member of a student union, but today students from some of the city’s major universities vocalized their own bone to pick with the government.

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Students and community members greet MLAs with musical protest

katie.toth — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:07:13 +0000

Halifax students greet Legislature with "MLA Walk of Shame"

katie.toth — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:24:49 +0000

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Almost 75 students surrounded the front and back entrances of Province House on Mar. 31, 2011. They were fighting a government proposal to cut post-secondary education funding by 4 per cent and allow tuition fees to increase by 3 per cent.

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Ceremonial decapitation of all three provincial party leaders

macdonaldtomw — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:12:09 +0000

On the Student Day of Action on Feb 2, 2011 in Halifax, NS, a group of former students wheeled a homemade mock guillotine into the center of the intersection at Spring Garden and South Park.

The demonstrators proceeded to decapitate 3 dummies representing the 3 major political parties in Nova Scotia.

Ste-Anne Students Say "Non" to Increasing Debtloads

bsichel — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:20:44 +0000

Led by the Association générale des étudiant.e.s de l'Université Ste-Anne, students at Nova Scotia's only francophone university, in Pointe de l'Église on the Acadian Shore, rallied and marched through the snow for February 2nd's provincial

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