is a three-year wait to be seen at the Halifax pain clinic. Another 1,000 people are in line to be assessed at the clinic in Sydney.

The longer someone has to wait for treatment, she said, the greater the risk the pain will get worse and conditions such as depression will develop.

This province's Conservative government put its cap in place in 2003, when insurance companies said they were struggling and motorists' premiums were skyrocketing. The legislation included a 20 per cent reduction in premiums.

In 2005, the Nova Scotia Coalition Against No-Fault Insurance and two car accident victims from Halifax filed a lawsuit challenging the legislation, arguing the cap is unfair for certain groups of people.

On cross-examination, the province's lawyer questioned Dr. Lynch's belief that people with chronic pain arefree thought is meant to be encouraged – our universities and colleges.

Protesting fees in Belfast Jeremy Bennett

In February, University College Dublin (UCD) threatened three students with possible expulsion for throwing an egg at Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, when he visited to open a building in November 2012. The throwing of an egg (which incidentally, missed Kenny) was a protest against massive cuts to public services. The police merely cautioned the students, but UCD handed down a heavy fine after a long, drawn-out disciplinary process. In most universities it seems to be the political edge to the incident that attracts such heavy-handed action. If the egg had been thrown while the students were drunk at a party, would it have mattered to anyone?

This crackdown on protest by university