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MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has declared that the unrest related to student protests is over in her province, one year and one week after it began.

Later in the day, police and protesters clashed in the streets as officers attempted push back student crowds while snowballs and ice were thrown at the cops.

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Marois said the debate over tuition-fee hikes that saw demonstrations sweep Quebec was now “behind us,” as she closed out a Montreal summit on post-secondary education Tuesday.

The newly elected premier conceded that small tuition hikes her government will impose won’t please everyone — not the student groups, nor the university administrators who say they need more cash.

That point was underscored when thousands of people marched in downtown Montreal several hours later, in a scene reminiscent of the daily demonstrations that rocked the province last spring and summer. CBC estimated the crowd topped 10,000 people.