Quebec Student Strike

On March 5th, unions representing over 100,000 university and CEGEP, went on strike to protest the 75% increase of tuition over the next 5 years. The protests in Montreal have been mostly peaceful, but have lead to some arrests. The tuitions will be raised by $325 a year for a total of $1625. Tuition fees in Quebec are the lowest in Canada, and even with the increase in tuition, they will still be nearly $1500 dollars less than the national average of just over $5300.

I think the Quebecois are always making a big deal out of situations like this. They have the lowest university costs in the entire country and they still complain about a price increase. This increase keeps up with things like inflation and cost of living prices.




http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/quebec-students-strike-back/10219

Earth Warming, People Shrinking

The earth's rising temperatures could lead to the the shrinking of mammals including humans. Although early horses were much smaller than their current day counter parts,  during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum when temperatures rose 10 degrees Celsius, the horses shrank to the size of a cat in 175,000 years. An author from the Florida Museum of Natural History said that after horses first appeared, they got smaller with the rise in global temperature, and then became larger when the global temperatures fell. This is not the first time that scientists have linked climate to the size of mammals. The global climate change that is going on right now might have an effect on the size of humans and mammals alike. 


I think that this is a pretty interesting co-relation that scientists have discovered. I think that a smaller (shorter) human population could help with other problems in the world like food. Smaller people would tend to eat less food. I also find it interesting that horses were very small until humans began to breed them for size and speed. 




http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/24/high_temps_shrink_mammals/

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