Ontario college students and workers call on provincial candidates to fund post-secondary education

Whoever wins the election, Ontario must reinvest in post-secondary education

Ontario’s universities and colleges are in a state of financial crisis. Across the province, post-secondary institutions, citing a lack of revenue needed to fund operations, are making devastating cuts to programs and issuing mass layoffs. This crisis was not only easily foreseeable, but completely avoidable.

If we want a prosperous, more self-reliant Canada, we need to invest in post-secondary education

If we want a prosperous, and more self-reliant Canada, we need to invest in post-secondary education

Ontario college students and workers call on provincial candidates to fund post-secondary education

Across Ontario, colleges are cutting programs and jobs. Unions representing workers and students say they want the next provincial government to properly fund the sector.

OPSEU protests post-secondary funding at Premier's campaign office

People demanding better provincial funding for colleges and universities.

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About 20 workers, students and local MPP candidates gathered outside Hamilton’s Mohawk College Wednesday — where a fifth of full-time jobs have been cut since December — to call on the province to better fund post-secondary education. Unionized college workers also rallied in Kingston, Belleville and Toronto, drawing attention to a series of recent job and program cuts they blame in part on the Ontario government.  Cuts at colleges are affecting…