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Ontario lifting post-secondary tuition freeze, boosting funding
- At Queen's Park Thursday morning, Nolan Quinn and Peter Bethlenfalvy announced Ontario will lift its seven-year tuition freeze and add $6.4 billion in funding over four years.
- Federal policy changes left Ontario post-secondary institutions facing losses, with the province calculating a $2 billion annual revenue drop and Colleges Ontario reporting at least $1.8 billion in cuts, 600 suspended programs, and 8,000 job losses.
- The funding package directs money toward 70,000 new seats in in-demand programs, with a focus on small, rural, northern, Indigenous and French institutions, aligned with Ontario's post-secondary funding priorities.
- The government is restructuring OSAP by shifting student aid toward loans with a maximum 25 per cent grant-to-loan ratio and removing eligibility for students at private career colleges.
- The province notes this is the first major change since early 2024 when an injection of just over $1 billion occurred, and the new tuition framework keeps fees below 2019 levels until 2030.
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