Ricardo Tranjan: Doug Ford’s OSAP Changes Are Egregious. But Reversing Them Would only Get Us so Far

Ricardo Tranjan: Doug Ford’s OSAP changes are egregious. But reversing them would only get us so far

Opposing the cuts is important, but Ontario needs free post-secondary education

Hundreds protest against OSAP cuts at Queen’s Park, two arrested

By Shaaranki Kulenthirarasa Hundreds of students and community members from across Ontario gathered at Queen’s Park on March 4 to protest Doug Ford’s Provincial Government’s recent cuts to OSAP.   On Feb. 12, the provincial government announced its decision to cut OSAP grants and increase domestic tuition by two per cent over the next three years. This is the first tuition increase since the province cut tuition by 10 per cent and froze it in 20…

Students protest against OSAP cuts

Students from Nicholson Catholic College took over Market Square in Belleville on Tuesday afternoon, in protest of Premier Doug Ford’s cuts to OSAP. A group of nearly 200 students marched from the school, through the downtown, waving signs and shouting for Ford to reverse the cuts that have slashed grant funding for post-secondary students’ tuition. Anna Baldwin Powell, the protest’s organizer, said that the cuts would impact over 200,000 studen…