MONTREAL - Friday night's nightly tuition protest march, the 39th consecutive such evening protest, included a bit of cinema.
Protest organizers screened a film outdoors at Emilie Gamelin Plaza called "République: Un abécédaire populaire" by filmmaker Hugo Latulippe.
The film, shot in 2011, features many Quebec public figures, such as Amir Khadir, Serge Bouchard, Dominic Champagne, Françoise David and Brigitte Haentjens, offering their visions of what Quebec should strive to be.
About 100 watched the film at 9:30 p.m. while others marched elsewhere.
Montreal police pronounced the march illegal soon after it began, but as has become custom, allowed it to proceed on the basis that no serious infractions were committed other than the failure to provide the protest route.
Residents of many neighbourhoods banged on pots in the evening as a show of support for the cause as well.
Meanwhile on other Montreal streets, several hundred bicyclists rode together in an unrelated evening bicycle event known as the Tour de nuit.
Other tuition-Bill 78 protests were slated to take place Friday in Gatineau, Amos and Quebec City, where marchers took three votes and finally agreed to provide their protest route to police.
A large protest is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Jeanne Mance Park, sometimes known as Fletcher's Field, near Park and Mount Royal.
With a file from The Canadian Press
