Tag: Western University
Post-secondary students push back amid Ontario’s OSAP overhaul
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,” […]
Peace: Funding boost little solace for Ontario’s small universities
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 […]
Western food lab turns to local home cook for brain-healthy inspiration
Community cooks are invited monthly to inspire research on brain-healthy meals.
Explosives probe: ‘Individuals’ removed from Western University program
‘Individuals’ facing charges in a probe of chemicals found in a home have been removed from an accelerator program at Western University
RECAP: London police update explosives, firearms investigation
London police are updating “a complex and lengthy investigation” into the discovery of hazardous chemicals in a London home