Two weeks away from the beginning of the school year, nearly 300,000 students in the Montreal area may not be able to take a school bus to class, as the province and transportation companies are at an impasse in their contract negotiations.
Montreal children may not see a yellow bus on their street when they head back to school in less than three weeks, after school bus contracts expired back in June.
Despite facing allegations of financial wrongdoing, a former school board administrator helped set up and operate three private colleges in Quebec for foreign students. Now the schools are under creditor protection, and hundreds of students are waiting for their money back.