Tag: tuition

Three Scary Things In Ontario’s 2019 Budget

Published April 12, 2019 Analysis

Less money for social assistance, education, health and student support

Canada’s Universities and Colleges are Being Taken Over by Big Corporations and Wealthy Donors

Published January 31, 2019 Analysis

Cuts to public funding at Canadian universities is opening the door to the 'corporatization' of Canadian universities, new report says

Corporate Canada Now Controls More Than One-Third of All Seats on University Boards Across Ontario

Published April 16, 2018 Exclusive

Corporate executives outnumber academics and public administrators on Ontario university boards, new analysis shows

Generation screwed: this is how many hours it takes to pay tuition

Published April 15, 2014

University students have to work as much as six times the number of hours in minimum-wage jobs to pay their tuition bill compared to 40 years ago, a new study has found. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives looked at Statistics Canada’s tuition data between 1975 and 2013, and found that the huge jump in fees over the […]

What to make of Tim Hudak’s flip-flop on “right-to-work”?

Published February 21, 2014

Did Tim Hudak just concede attacking unions is an attack on the middle class? That’s wishful thinking for an anti-labour ideologue like Hudak, but the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader renounced Friday one of his key policy planks on the eve of an expected provincial election that, if implemented, would have really hurt the middle class. In a […]

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