financial aid
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Ford’s OSAP Rules Raise Financial Barriers to Ontario Students
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Laurier Students Sound Alarm Over OSAP Reforms Mar. 4, students at the University of Waterloo walked out of class as part of a campus-wide strike, calling on Premier Doug Ford and the provincial government to reverse proposed changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP). The protest began at 11 a.m. in the Arts Quad outside…
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Updated: OSAP changes take effect, impacting Laurier students
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On Wednesday, June 19, the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) released funding estimates for student applicants looking to receive grants and loans for the next school year. Changes were made to the program earlier in the year by the Ford government with uncertainty surrounding how students would be impacted by the projected cuts to the…
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CCI pushes for graduated students to stay in Ontario
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A new proposal created by the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) has been making waves in the higher education sector, in hopes that students who leave for jobs in countries like the United States will reimburse tax payers for their post-secondary education. Originally reported in June by The Globe and Mail, those pushing for the…
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Rethinking the location of the Rio Olympics
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that there was extreme controversy and fear surrounding the location of the Olympics this year. It brought up the question of whether or not the Olympics, or any sporting or media event, is worth more than the lives of the citizens, or the politics of the host…
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