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Student quits over Halifax transit strike

39,000 students can’t use their bus passes

February 7, 2012

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A Saint Mary’s University student said he quit his classes on Monday because the transit strike in Halifax has made it too difficult to get to school. "I was already missing assignments and quizzes and stuff due to the strike," second-year criminology student Chase Sabourin told CBC News. "The strike could be over this week, it could be another month down the road. I’m not going to wait around hoping it’s going to end tomorrow," he added. Sabourin said he plans to return in September. Seven hundred Amalgamated Transit Union workers went on strike on Feb. 2. rendering Halifax’s 39,000 student transit passes useless, at least for now.

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