McGill's arts undergraduates to vote on strike today

McGill University’s arts undergraduates will be voting yes or no to an unlimited general student strike today.

The faculty representing around six thousand students will be deciding whether or not to join the one hundred and seventy thousand students in Quebec already mandated to strike.

The McGill Daily which is one of the university’s independent student newspapers supports the bid.  Its editors say this is the university’s chance to break its tradition of apathy within Quebec’s larger student movements.  McGill students have never gone on an unlimited general strike before.

Students are protesting against tuition rates increasing by seventy five per cent in the next five years.

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