TORONTO — Hundreds of Ontario post-secondary students and supporters are taking to the lawn of the legislature today to protest cuts to financial assistance grants.
Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn announced last month that the province is giving the post-secondary institutions a long-sought funding boost, while also lifting a seven-year tuition fee freeze and drastically scaling back Ontario Student Assistance Program grants in favour of loans.
Canadian Federation of Students' Ontario chairperson Cyrielle Ngeleka says it will leave many students with high debt loads at a time when cost of living is rising, and education should be a pathway out of precarity, not into it.