Photo by Luc Lavigne

Montreal students mark 100 days of continuous protests, May 22, 2012. Initially spurred by the Quebec government’s decision to raise tuition fees by $1700 over 5 years, the protests have since shifted into a broad display of civil disobedience. The anti-civil-rights bill Loi 78 has spurred massive discontent with the Charest government to the point of STM (Montreal Transit) bus drivers, by some reports, being instructed by the union not to offer passage to cops intent upon enforcing the law.

The scene along Rue Berri, by OpenFile journalist Justin Ling (@justin_ling). Ling experienced the full extent of the law himself this evening, documented, where else, on his twitter.

Fortunately for us, Francophone Quebec has not be pacified like Anglophone Canada has. Quebeckers, at least many of them anyhow, appear ready to fight the neoliberal agenda, where us anglos barely whimper at the gross violations committed at G-20 or the Harper Government’s flagrant disregard for parliamentary democracy and continued attempts at dismantling the last vestiges of the Canadian welfare state.