CBS News Quebec student protests: Province bringing in legislation to end strike Canada.com QUEBEC — The Quebec government intends to present a bill to end the province’s 14-week tuition strike, Premier Jean Charest announced Wednesday night — a proposal that was quickly and decisively rejected by student leaders. Student strike: Proposed law to end strike to be presented Thursday Montreal Gazette Quebec expected to introduce law to cool tuition hike fight CBC.ca 122 Quebec protesters arrested in raucous night before proposed student-strike …

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CBC.ca G20 report author ‘encouraged’ despite no police apology CBC.ca The head of Ontario’s top civilian police watchdog says he’s encouraged by Toronto police Chief Bill Blair’s response to a report released Wednesday that criticizes his force for acting too aggressively and violating people’s rights during the G20 … Marni Soupcoff: Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair should apologize for botched …

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Globe and Mail Quebec profs’ emotional miscue Toronto Sun They were “too emotional.” That’s right, professors at Quebec’s College Lionel-Groulx were “too emotional” to teach, and “too emotional” to obey the law after witnessing the spectacle of riot police using pepper spray and physical force on Tuesday to … Protest gangs storm into Montreal university classes, force students out CTV.ca Marois appeals to Charest: Negotiate with students Montreal Gazette Quebec college students may seek separate deal with government Globe and Mail TheChronicleHerald.ca  - CBC.ca all 553 news articles »

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CNN IMF’s Lagarde Says Greek Euro Exit Would Be Expensive Bloomberg International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said a Greek exit from the euro area would be “extremely expensive” and hard. Still, the IMF has to be “technically prepared for anything because it’s our job,” she said in an interview …

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To restart an icy economy and free its citizens from strict Soviet-style money controls, all Iceland needs is a single planeload of Canadian dollars, a pair of Iceland economists told a packed Bay Street conference room Monday afternoon.

“It would fit nicely in a small plane, we just have to make sure it doesn’t get lost on the way,” said Heidar Gudjonsson, an investment manager and the chairman of Iceland’s Centre for Social and Economic Research.

Mr. Gudjonsson, along with University of Iceland finance professor Ársæll Valfells, were in Toronto on Tuesday to make the first pitch to a Canadian audience on a unorthodox proposal to to pull the debt-ridden Nordic state from recession by abandoning the Icelandic krona for the Canadian dollar.

Iceland was one of hardest hit by the 2008 financial collapse, rendering its currency effectively worthless. To prevent wealth from fleeing the country, Icelanders are on their fourth year of living under strict capital controls. International investment is banned, and when Mr. Gudjonsson left Reykjavik for Canada, he said he was only allowed to withdraw $2,570 for travel expenses. “The controls are stricter than they were in Eastern Europe under Communism,” said Mr. Gudjonsson.

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