The long-standing pro-Palestinian encampment was dismantled at McGill University on Wednesday morning as dozens of Montreal police officers descended on campus and one man was arrested. McGill president Deep Saini said the university was clearing out the camp in “close collaboration” with the city and police, and through the “engagement of a qualified security firm.” … Read more
Montreal police say that despite the occupation Thursday of a McGill University administration building that ended with 15 arrests, they have no plans to move in on a pro-Palestinian encampment on the downtown campus. Thursday’s occupation, which ended with police in riot gear spraying tear gas at protesters, was an escalation in the standoff that … Read more
A Quebec Superior Court judge rejected the request Wednesday for an injunction to dismantle a weeks-old encampment by pro-Palestinian activists at McGill University. The ruling comes after McGill filed an application late last week to remove protesters from its campus in downtown Montreal. Justice Marc St-Pierre wrote in his decision that McGill failed to prove … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size McGill University is before the court Monday to seek an injunction to remove a pro-Palestinian encampment that has been on its downtown Montreal campus since last month. The protesters first assembled dozens of tents on the lower grounds of the school on April 27. The move came … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Pro-Palestinian activists remained on the lower field of McGill University in downtown Montreal on Friday as the encampment entered its seventh day. The situation was calm on Friday morning. On Thursday, there was a counter protest staged by supporters of Israel, and the two groups of protestors … Read more
