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“OSAP offers have arrived. And students are stunned at the numbers.” By Joanne Laucius Reprinted from Ottawa Citizen The provincial government’s overhaul of post-secondary grants and loans is starting to sink in for students as they scramble to figure out how they’ll make ends meet with a new school year only months away. For undergraduate […]

By Larry Savage  Reprinted from Education Forum Big business is actively fostering closer relationships with Canadian universities in an effort to reorient post-secondary learning and research towards serving private business interests rather than the public good. This trend is worrisome for university workers, students, and those segments of society who believe that the primary goal […]

Watch this clip from the May 28th press conference!   The Canadian Federation of Students and York Federation of Students have filed a legal challenge to the Doug Ford government’s so-called “Student Choice Initiative” (SCI). The government announced the SCI earlier this year without any consultation of students’ unions. The SCI will introduce a new opt-out period […]

By Joel Roberts, York University Ph. D Candidate, and former Graduate & Professional Students Representative on York’s Board of Governors Reprinted from Toronto Star Ford’s government dropped yet another bombshell for Ontario’s universities and colleges when it announced, in the new budget, that 60 per cent of their funding will be tied to performance metrics […]

The Ford government’s budget proposal, released on April 11, 2019, is bad news for Ontario’s colleges and universities. By 2024, 60 per cent of post-secondary funding will be tied to what the government calls “performance outcomes”. As the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations explains: “performance-based funding threatens education quality as it rewards institutions that meet […]

WATCH this BlogTO video about the March 20 Walkout!  On March 20, 2019, students at colleges and universities across Ontario walked out of classes in protest of several of Doug Ford’s regressive changes to education. The government’s controversial changes include the cuts to OSAP and the new, so-called Students Choice Initiative. We had a fantastic turnout […]