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Post-secondary students push back amid Ontario’s OSAP overhaul

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Switching schools. Driven into debt. Dropping out. Cuts to grants from the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), the provincial student loan program, will have devastating results on the post-secondary students, local students say. “I’m really passionate about the OSAP changes, because I wouldn’t have been able to go to university if it weren’t for OSAP,” […]

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Peace: Funding boost little solace for Ontario’s small universities

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Despite this month’s funding announcement, Ontario’s small universities will remain in crisis.   Paralyzed by a tuition cap, provincial funding freeze and federal restrictions on international students, small university campuses have been doing more with less for years. Campuses have closed or been restructured.  An announcement by the province on Feb. 12 to restore some post-secondary funding after nearly a decade of cutbacks will certainly make a difference, but its impact will not reverse the […]