‘We’re going to fight back’: Student union responds to Ontario’s changes to financial aid

Ontario got two things right with post-secondary funding — and one thing very wrong

Ontario radically changed the grants-to-loans OSAP model with little notice, when affordability nationwide is at its lowest in recent memory.

‘We’re going to fight back’: Student union responds to Ontario’s changes to financial aid

Students in Ontario say they’re prepared to challenge the changes to post-secondary tuition and financial aid announced by Doug Ford’s government last week.

Hamilton social work student says OSAP cuts 'a punch in the gut' that endanger her education

Hamilton college student Marcelle Slote says Ontario Student Assistance Program changes and Premier Doug Ford's basket-weaving comments feel like "a punch in the gut" and are "absolutely disrespectful.” Slote, who is studying social work, says the funding cuts have left her wondering if she can afford to continue her education.

Doug Ford says student assistance wasn’t ‘sustainable’ without recent changes

Ford says the Ontario government was under "immense pressure" to end the seven-year college and university tuition freeze and had to make changes to student aid because costs were getting

OSAP cuts hurt Kingston's students and our economy

(Kingston, Ontario) Ontario has announced a sorely needed $6.4 billion investment in post-secondary institutions. At the same time, the government has announced massive cuts to Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) funding grants,

Ontario government lifts tuition freeze, reworks OSAP, and injects $6.4 billion of additional funding

As part of an announcement on Feb. 12 by the provincial government, Ontario postsecondary institutions can expect $6.4 billion in extra funding, and students can expect less money in Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) grants. The addition of $6.4 billion in funding will take place over the next four years and will help fund 70,000 more “in-demand seats,” while also supporting small, rural, northern, French-language, and Indigenous Institu…