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Doug Ford gets rid of the 6 month grace period 

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Doug Ford gets rid of the 6 month grace period 

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There's a lot of changes going on with what Doug wants to do with OSAP and one of them being the 6 month grace period. He now wants to charge interest during the six-month grace period for returning loans after students graduate. There's a lot of disagreement with this because the grace period gave students time to work full time now that they have graduated to save up and pay off their tuition debt. With the grace period being gone and charging students interest as soon as they finish school, this can be very hard on the students and will result in more and more people being in debt in the future. Education is to better the future, with all the new OSAP changes taking into place there's going to be fewer and fewer people wanting to go to school.

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The Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) will soon be reverting back to the 2016-17 framework, announced Ontario's minister of training, colleges and universities on Thursday.

It is unclear if this means students from low-income families will receive grants covering their full tuition, a program which was introduced in 2017.

Family income thresholds for students qualifying for OSAP will be reduced for the 2019-20 school year. The provincial government, led by Doug Ford, will now charge interest during the previous six-month grace period for returning loans after students graduate.

Among other changes to post-secondary finances, students will be able to choose which student fees they want to pay, and what the fees are put toward.

In a press release, minister Merrilee Fullerton noted that ancillary fees can cost students up to $2,000 per year.

"We will ensure students have transparency and freedom of choice regarding the campus services and organizations which get access to their money," said Fullerton. "Students are adults and we are treating them as such by giving them the ability to see where their money is going.

"The previous government believed in handing out OSAP money to some of Ontario's highest income earners with virtually no meaningful criteria for success."

Fullerton also formally announced that post-secondary tuition will be lowered by 10 per cent.

"Ryerson University recognizes the financial benefit a reduction in tuition will bring to our students," the university said in a statement to The Eyeopener. "We will be assessing how these changes may affect our students and the operating budget for the university."

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Ford government announces changes to OSAP eligibility, grace period

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The Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) will soon be reverting back to the 2016-17 framework, announced Ontario's minister of training, colleges and universities on Thursday. It is unclear if this means students from low-income families will receive grants covering their full tuition, a program which was introduced in 2017.

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For the new changes Doug Ford wants to make to OSAP with getting rid of grants and cutting the funds. This leaves a lot of people in distressed and angry because if people come from a not so wealthy family, they end up having to pay for it all by themselves like myself and I can tell you its stressful because when you're full time in school there's only a minimum hours you can work a week plus having to pay for other expensive like rent, car payments, children, etc. it's hard to save up for OSAP and pay off your debt also because Doug wants to get rid of the 6 month grace period so as soon as you're done school they want you to pay back OSAP.

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#SaveOSAP My parents have never been able to contribute to my tuition, the best they can do is a few groceries, some produce, etc. I still have 2 years of school left, and these changes to OSAP will be devastating for me

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#SaveOSAP My parents have never been able to contribute to my tuition, the best they can do is a few groceries, some produce, etc. I still have 2 years of school left, and these changes to OSAP will be devastating for me

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#SaveOSAP My parents have never been able to contribute to my tuition, the best they can do is a few groceries, some produce, etc. I still have 2 years of school left, and these changes to OSAP will be devastating for me
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#SaveOSAP My parents have never been able to contribute to my tuition, the best they can do is a few groceries, some produce, etc. I still have 2 years of school left, and these changes to OSAP will be devastating for me

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#SaveOSAP My parents have never been able to contribute to my tuition, the best they can do is a few groceries, some produce, etc. I still have 2 years of school left, and these changes to OSAP will be devastating for me

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#SaveOSAP My parents have never been able to contribute to my tuition, the best they can do is a few groceries, some produce, etc. I still have 2 years of school left, and these changes to OSAP will be devastating for me

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In this article I found on CBC, They talk about how university and college students are happy to hear the 10 percent cut to OSAP, university undergraduates will save between $600 and $1,000 as a result of the tuition cuts and college student will save $340 per year, but they are scared about what might happen to the loans and grants changes they want to make in September. In one of the videos attached to the article a girl student talks about how she's happy she's going to be finish this year because if she didn't she wouldn't of been able to finish her degree. imagine putting in all that hard work and dedication plus money just for you to not be able to finish university.

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University and college students in Ottawa say they're happy to hear tuition will drop by 10 per cent in September, but worry about changes to loans and grants that could leave them struggling to pay off debt.

Merrilee Fullerton, the MPP for Kanata-Carleton and minister of training, colleges and universities, announced Thursday that the average college student will save $340 per year, and university undergraduates will save between $600 and $1,000 as a result of the tuition cuts.

At the same time, she said the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) will undergo yet another overhaul, citing a recent audit and criticizing the former Liberal government for allowing it to "balloon to the point of fiscal unsustainability."

Today's announcement also effectively eliminates the fully covered tuition put in place by the Liberals for families earning less than $50,000.

The Carleton University Student Union had been advocating for tuition cuts for some time, but said the changes to OSAP turned good news into bad.

"I think it started out on a high but after all the revelations that came after it's kind of a time of limbo for students, there's a cloud hanging over any student who might be receiving assistance," said David Oladejo, president of the student union.

In statements to CBC News, the University of Ottawa and Carleton University said they would be reviewing how the government's changes will affect them.

Meanwhile, Algonquin College said the news of the tuition cut came as a surprise and will create a $9-million hole in its budget.

"We'll have to go back and take a look at projects that we can't start or different operating budgets that we have," said President Cheryl Jensen.

All three schools said their priority with any changes is students.

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On the Carleton University campus, reaction to news of the tuition cuts was equally guarded.

"I'd be excited for that, really excited for that. I just wish it was more," said third-year neuroscience student Venance Selemani.

Selemani said he pays about $9,000 a year in tuition, an amount he can't cover with his minimum-wage job at a grocery store. He depends on OSAP to make up the shortfall, and worried the changes to the loan program could jeopardize that source of money.

"It's already a struggle to get. It's a long process," he said.

Michelle Macland, a mother of three children under 10, transfered to Carleton as a mature student for a final year of social work courses.

She said the former Liberal government's OSAP policy allowed her to return to school, and suggested the PC overhaul will make things more difficult to students like her.

"Ford preaches that he's putting money back in the hands of Ontarians, but is he?" she asked.

Macland said she fears the OSAP changes will make it difficult for low-income families to attend college or university and "break the cycle of poverty."

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Students welcome tuition cut, but worry over OSAP changes | CBC News

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University and college students in Ottawa say they're happy to hear tuition will drop by 10 per cent in September, but worry about changes to loans and grants that could leave them struggling to pay off debt.

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Marie-France speaks out about saving OSAP

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Marie-France speaks out about saving OSAP

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Marie-France Lalonde who is a Franco-Ontarian politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was first elected in 2014. She took to tweet On January 25th, 2019 to talk about what Doug is doing to OSAP. She talked about how everyone should have the chance to be able to get the education they want, without being in an unbelievable amount of debt. In one of the three pictures she posted along with the tweet is a woman holding a poster she made saying "Education shouldn't be a debt sentence". There's a lot of people who are already in Debt and stress about universities and colleges funds and with the upcoming plans for OSAP it's only going to get worst and there's going to be a huge increase on students dropping out.

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In Toronto at today’s rally to #SaveOSAP. Ontarians deserve better than this government. Everyone who chooses college or university should be able to access education without accumulating incredible debt! @fordnation & @DrFullertonMPP should REVERSE this decision TODAY #onpoli https://t.co/Mgq7NTwyBA

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In Toronto at today’s rally to #SaveOSAP. Ontarians deserve better than this government. Everyone who chooses college or university should be able to access education without accumulating incredible debt! @fordnation & @DrFullertonMPP should REVERSE this decision TODAY #onpoli https://t.co/Mgq7NTwyBA

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In Toronto at today’s rally to #SaveOSAP. Ontarians deserve better than this government. Everyone who chooses college or university should be able to access education without accumulating incredible debt! @fordnation & @DrFullertonMPP should REVERSE this decision TODAY #onpoli pic.twitter.com/Mgq7NTwyBA
— Marie-France Lalonde (@mflalonde) January 25, 2019

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In Toronto at today’s rally to #SaveOSAP. Ontarians deserve better than this government. Everyone who chooses college or university should be able to access education without accumulating incredible debt! @fordnation & @DrFullertonMPP should REVERSE this decision TODAY #onpoli https://t.co/Mgq7NTwyBA

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In Toronto at today’s rally to #SaveOSAP. Ontarians deserve better than this government. Everyone who chooses college or university should be able to access education without accumulating incredible debt! @fordnation & @DrFullertonMPP should REVERSE this decision TODAY #onpoli https://t.co/Mgq7NTwyBA

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In Toronto at today’s rally to #SaveOSAP. Ontarians deserve better than this government. Everyone who chooses college or university should be able to access education without accumulating incredible debt! @fordnation & @DrFullertonMPP should REVERSE this decision TODAY #onpoli https://t.co/Mgq7NTwyBA

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Students are Terrified about what might happen

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Students are Terrified about what might happen

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This local news video shows students terrified of not being able to finish school because of OSAP cuts. Some people are in universities and doing there masters and all they want is to be able to finish so they can graduate, working your way up all the way to masters just to hear you can't finish because the premier no longer wants to fund OSAP is not far what so ever, especially because were the ones paying for it out of our taxes. School is not cheap and especially is they are attending university. If you're an international under-graduate student you're looking at $25,000 -29,000 a year and if you're an under-graduate student you're looking at 7,000 - 12,000 a year.

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Local students 'terrified' by what OSAP cuts could mean to their education

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Cuts OSAP to provide $10 Million for horse back riding programs

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Cuts OSAP to provide $10 Million for horse back riding programs

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On March 23rd, 2019 Carlo Cappello tweeted on twitter all of the things Doug wants to cut or get rid of which included OSAP funding/Grants, Free Healthcare cuts, Tax on the wealthy cut, miniwage cut, Autism programs cut, School repairs cut, etc. But now were hearing that Ontario fundings is going to supporting horse back riding programs. I personally disagree with this because he's cutting things that's going to benefit us as a community in the future. Horse back riding programs will not and judging by Carlo Cappello tweet which got 64 retweets and 68 favourites, there are a lot of other people who agree with how I feel about these changes.

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High school students walkout due to OSAP changes

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High school students walkout due to OSAP changes

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This is an article about high school students and how they are taking action into what Doug Ford has planned. A lot of different high schools across Ontario decided to take act and have a walkout during classes to get there word across to Mr. Ford too. A lot of high schools and elementary schools have been inspired by the colleges and universities and wanted to take part too. A new movement among Ontario high school and elementary students has started called #StudentsSayNo. Their first post on Instagram was just two days ago on Tuesday, March 19, and since then the movement has definitely gained attention.

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The PC government in Ontario recently unveiled major policy changes that would affect all public school classrooms across the province. Students are now taking action and protesting the changes, such as the increasing Ontario classroom sizes, with another walkout. The protest is province-wide and will take place next month in April.
READ ALSO: Ontario Government To Ban All Cellphones From Classrooms Next Year
Several policy changes have been announced by the provincial government lately. For instance, less than one week ago, Ontario Education Minister Lisa Thompson announced that classroom sizes in both Ontario high schools and elementary schools would be increasing. This move will also likely lead to teacher job cuts.
READ ALSO: Ontario Government Increases The Number Of High School Students Per Class
Not only this but another change the provincial government announced is that cellphones would be banned from classrooms, with the restriction effective starting this upcoming 2019/20 school year.
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In light of these new policy changes, a new movement among Ontario high school and elementary students has started called #StudentsSayNo. Their first post on Instagram was just two days ago on Tuesday, March 19, and since then, the movement has definitely gained traction. The Instagram page for the #StudentsSayNo movement already has over 6,500 followers.

Check out the poster they released for the province-wide walkout below that was posted on their Instagram!

"They ask for student voice to look good for their voters, but when we speak they don't listen," read the Instagram caption. "Let's MAKE them listen by walking out of our schools at 1:15 pm on April 4th in protest of recent changes to our education made by the Ontario government. Let's take back our education."
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The Instagram post with the poster of the walkout has gone viral. It has garnered over 22,000 likes, as well as over 1,600 comments since it was posted just two days ago.

The high school and elementary school students may have taken inspiration from Ontario university students, who have been recently fighting against the provincial government's OSAP changes with massive walkouts and street protests.

Rally at York University has turned into a sit in at Vari Hall#wethestudents #cfsfcee #onpoli #onpse @YFSlocal68@YUGSA84 pic.twitter.com/5Tv122802N
- CFS-Ontario (@CFSON) March 20, 2019

People on Reddit Toronto have also been praising the students for taking action. Check out what they had to say!

The province-wide walkout is planned for April 4th at 1:15 PM. To find out more about #StudentsSayNo, you can visit their Instagram.

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High School Students Plan Protest Over New Education Policy Changes In Ontario

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The PC government in Ontario recently unveiled major policy changes that would affect all public school classrooms across the province. Students are now taking action and protesting the changes, such as the increasing Ontario classroom sizes, with another walkout. The protest is province-wide and will take place next month in April.

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On instagram, there's a hashtag going around called #SaveOSAP and a wide group of people all ages are standing around outside by Queens Park Chanting, with their custom made posters to stop what Doug Ford has planned for OSAP. I personally like what these people are doing and think this is a good way to out words across the Doug Ford and hopefully doesn't go through with it  because OSAP has helped me a lot financially with getting into college and also helped thousands of other students just like me and education is an investment for the future so our money is going in the right place.

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Today my comrades marched to #SaveOSAP. Education is a right and an investment for the future. @fordnationdougford we aren't backing down. . . . . #DEFENDOSAP #fuckdougford #conservatives #handsoff #protest #protestsigns #educationisaright #comrades #dougfordusedtodealhash #trustfundbaby #toronto

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185 Likes, 12 Comments - a.tärdi (@rocketqueen68) on Instagram: "Today my comrades marched to #SaveOSAP. Education is a right and an investment for the future...."

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Deb Matthews took to twitter to express her thoughts on the way she felt about Doug Ford and the changes he wants to make to OSAP. Deb Matthews is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018. Deb Matthews was very upset about what Doug Ford wants to do to OSAP and disagrees with him. She used the hashtag '#SaveOSAP' and explained how "Either they do not understand what they have done to #OSAP, or they are outright lying". I agree to what Deb is saying because I don't see anything positive with the new affects taking place with OSAP and agree they need to save OSAP and help the students.

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Watching Question Period at Ontario legislature, and am gobsmacked at the answers from @fordnation and @DrFullertonMPP . Either they do not understand what they have done to #OSAP, or they are outright lying. There is no other explanation. Truly shameful. #onpoli #saveOSAP

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Watching Question Period at Ontario legislature, and am gobsmacked at the answers from @fordnation and @DrFullertonMPP . Either they do not understand what they have done to #OSAP, or they are outright lying. There is no other explanation. Truly shameful. #onpoli #saveOSAP

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Watching Question Period at Ontario legislature, and am gobsmacked at the answers from @fordnation and @DrFullertonMPP . Either they do not understand what they have done to #OSAP, or they are outright lying. There is no other explanation. Truly shameful. #onpoli #saveOSAP
— Deb Matthews (@Deb_Matthews) February 19, 2019

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Watching Question Period at Ontario legislature, and am gobsmacked at the answers from @fordnation and @DrFullertonMPP . Either they do not understand what they have done to #OSAP, or they are outright lying. There is no other explanation. Truly shameful. #onpoli #saveOSAP

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Watching Question Period at Ontario legislature, and am gobsmacked at the answers from @fordnation and @DrFullertonMPP . Either they do not understand what they have done to #OSAP, or they are outright lying. There is no other explanation. Truly shameful. #onpoli #saveOSAP

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Watching Question Period at Ontario legislature, and am gobsmacked at the answers from @fordnation and @DrFullertonMPP . Either they do not understand what they have done to #OSAP, or they are outright lying. There is no other explanation. Truly shameful. #onpoli #saveOSAP

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University students protest Doug Ford OSAP cuts

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University students protest Doug Ford OSAP cuts

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Students at University of Windsor are not happy about Doug Fords plan to cut OSAP funds. In this youtube video there's a group of University students Chanting “Education is a right! We will not give up the fight!” approximately 60 people gathered outside the CAW Student Centre. A lot of students are angry about this change because it can be very hard to save up for school and if it wasn't for OSAP a lot of people would be in 10X the more debt than they already are. One student stated that if it wasn't for OSAP she wouldn't know how she would of paid for law school, she's already $40,000 in debt but without OSAP it would of been more.