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Ontario's colleges are in crisis and it needs to be an issue in the current election (www.thewhig.com)

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“Not only has (Premier Doug) Ford walked away from post-secondary education, he’s shifted the responsibility of financing our colleges, a public good, onto students and institutions,” JP Hornick, president of OPSEU and faculty at George Brown College, said in a prepared statement.

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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Are you joking? Ontario pays about $8,000 per student per year for post-secondary education. It is the lowest in Canada. The next lowest is Nova Scotia, which pays $13,000.