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Representatives and Social Services Professionals

social services professionals: Representatives of an alliance of health and social services professionals and technicians known as mounted a protest outside the C te-des-Neiges in Montreal on Thursday afternoon and said more protests are planned for the coming weeks. , according to CBC. In a press release, the group says it chose the C te-des-Neiges because its part of the de la Montagne, which the alliance says is reeling from cuts of $1.2 million to its 2014-2015 budget. Quebec health-care workers are mobilizing against the provincial governments plan to cut as much as $600 million in health-related spending by 2018. The alliance says austerity measures are already affecting front-line services to those in need across Montreal and says the province health-care system cannot sustain further cuts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.