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‘We’re dipping into savings’: Ontario’s OSAP freeze pushes private colleges toward layoffs and possible closures

Private career college operators warn the province’s OSAP funding freeze is threatening their survival, leaving thousands of students in limbo and putting Ontario’s pipeline of health-care workers at risk.

Published Oct 13, 2026 at 7:07pm

Barbara Patrocinio
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Barbara Patrocinio
‘We’re dipping into savings’: Ontario’s OSAP freeze pushes private colleges toward layoffs and possible closures

ONT Question Period 20231025 Ontario PC MPP Nolan Quinn attends Question Period at the Queen's Park Legislature in Toronto on Wednesday October 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

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