Samuel Provost

The effects of austerity on our living and studying conditions As a child, I imagined college and university as places where a scientific community worked collectively on difficult problems. Growing up in the rural town of Huberdeau, even before I could put it into words, I dreamed of collegiality and a rich student life that would nourish this intellectual work. However, collegiality and student life do not spontaneously spring from…

Until recently, the Cégep Maisonneuve’s admin made a habit of systematically forcing a making up of the school calendar after strikes. For every day of striking, they added a day of classes. By attacking the tactic of the local student union, the SOGEECOM, the administration wished to render it useless. That was before students got involved and ruined that plan. During the winter of 2025’s semester, after having adopted a…