Ten years since the “printemps érable”

La Presse is looking back ten years to the printemps érable in which student dissent widened to become a general expression of dissatisfaction with how things were going in Quebec under Jean Charest. With a photo essay.

La Presse even talks to some of the cops involved in policing the demonstrations in 2012.

The Gazette also has a look back to that time.

Updated to add: the Journal talks to Gabriel Nadeau‑Dubois, who came to prominence during the 2012 protests, and La Presse to both Nadeau‑Dubois and Martine Desjardins. Desjardins, also notable as a student spokesman, was briefly a PQ MNA and is now director‑general of the Quebec federation of professional journalists.