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This video relates to student debt because the creators of the video, interview another set of students that have a student loan debt. They ask the students how much debt they are in and if student debt was worth it. The students reactions were as I personally expected, they said for the type of education they received, it wasn't worth it and I totally agree. One student even said that post secondary education should be free.

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Reality of Student Loans | College Advice

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This video relates to student loan debt because the creators of the video interview random students on the street and ask them how much student loan debt they are in. The results are amazing, many students today are in a lot of debt such as $25k and $50k. One student was at least in $200k of student loan debt and I was personally amazed by that. I didn't realize that amount was even possible.

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Reality of Student Loans | College Advice

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This image relates to the student loan debt in Canada because on every students graduation cap, it shows the amount the debt each student is in upon graduating. This is also another good example because it looks like every student in the photo is in debt.

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This image relates to the student loan debt in Canada because it uses a huge bag with the word "DEBT" on it, on a students back to exemplify how much debt students in Canada are really in after they graduate. The paper in the student's hand that has also says "STUDENT LOANS" so the viewer can easily tell what kind of debt it is.

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This image relates to the student loan debt in Canada because it easily shows the percentage of post graduates that are struggling to pay off a debt. The image shows that 58% of students are in an average of a $20k debt and that 42% of students are not in debt.

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This website is a forum home for students that are thinking about getting a student loan or are struggling with a student loan debt. The website has many different forums to inform students about the consequences and how to deal with them.

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A forum to help Canadians with student loan repayment programs

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This website by CBC News relates to student loan debt because their article is about a women that graduated in 2008 and is still struggling to pay off her student loan debt. The women graduated in 2008 with a debt of $25,000 and has only paid back $2000. One piece of information that I find useful in this article by CBC is that they talk about how hard it is for postgraduates to find a job after going to school for so many years which results to them struggling to pay off their loans and becoming really stressed.

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Brittany Verge knew she would have to rely on student loans to pay for post-secondary education after high school. But as a teenager, she didn't realize how difficult paying off an average Canadian graduate debt load would be.

"My worry is that I'm going to be, you know, with college-age kids some day and still paying my loan," the 26-year-old explains.

After three years of post-secondary schooling in Nova Scotia, Verge graduated in 2008 with about $25,000 of debt - just about the national average. More than five years later, she has only managed to pay back about $2,000.

For people like Verge, high debt loads are not only a financial stress but can delay the time it takes individuals or couples to reach certain milestones, such as having children, getting married or owning property, according to recent research in North America.

My worry is that I'm going to be ... with college-age kids some day and still paying my loan. - Brittany Verge, 26-year-old graduate

Average Canadian student debt estimates hover in the mid- to high-$20,000 range. The Canadian Federation of Students pegs it at $27,000, which is close to the nearly $26,300 many students said they expected to owe after graduation in a recent BMO survey.

Simon Fraser University's annual survey of more than 15,000 graduating students found debt-saddled students reported an average of about $24,600 in 2012. When debt-free graduates were added to the equation, the average dropped to about $14,500.

Post-graduate work hard to find

Despite being handed a large enough loan to pay for one year of university and two years of college, Verge says she did not understand the consequences of owing so much money.

​After graduation, Verge struggled to find permanent, full-time work, like many other young people.

In January 2014, the youth unemployment rate in the country was 13.9 per cent, according to Statistics Canada. In 2013, young people in the Atlantic provinces and Ontario had the highest unemployment rates, according to a report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

​Verge originally intended to become a teacher, but changed her mind after one year at Memorial University. She spent the next two years at Nova Scotia Community College completing a photography program, hoping to become a photojournalist.

She floated between retail jobs and spent summers living with her parents while working at a museum. She worked on freelance photography projects in her spare time.

"I was doing an array of things, and quite often going on EI [employment insurance] when I couldn't find any more retail work," she recalls.

During those hodgepodge employment years, the most she and her husband - whom she married in 2009 in a no-frills, self-catered affair - made was $34,000 annually before taxes.

Five years after graduation, Verge landed her first full-time job in her chosen field, as a reporter for a local newspaper in Liverpool, N.S., where she lives. She now makes less than $28,000 before taxes.

Defaulted debts, repayment assistance

But years earlier, Verge defaulted on some of her loans.

Like many students, Verge's loans are split between federal and provincial. Her monthly payments for her federal loan, under the Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP), totalled about $200; while her provincial loan payments were much smaller.

"How could somebody who has seasonal employment and is taking out EI possibly pay them that much," she says, adding her husband was a student still paying tuition at the time.

When she didn't make payments for more than 270 days, her federal loan went into default.

Over the past few years, about 14 per cent of people with federal student loans have defaulted within three years of leaving school, according to the CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity at Western University .

In 2010-11, 165,000 borrowers entered the CSLP's repayment assistance program. Graduates have to apply and qualify for repayment assistance, which lowers their monthly payment to no more than 20 per cent of their family income, every six months. Former students whose loans have defaulted are not eligible.

Since Verge defaulted on her loans, the Canada Revenue Agency collects $125 each month from her and takes her GST and income tax refunds - should she qualify for any. She pays an additional $40 monthly for her provincial loans.

Delayed life milestones

Verge's husband is currently pursuing a masters in history at Saint Mary's University in Halifax and hopes to continue into a PhD program. When he graduates, the young couple will have his student debt repayment to contend with as well. So far, it totals $30,000 (his current year's tuition has been covered by a scholarship).

Between 2012 and 2013, more than 400,000 students borrowed money to help pay for more schooling, claims the Canadian Federation of Students. With so many acquiring post-graduate debt, young couples, like Verge and her husband, often have to repay two sets of loans.

Verge considers herself lucky, because she and her husband moved into his mother's house in 2010 when she downsized to an apartment for health reasons. The couple helped pay her monthly rent until she passed away in 2011.

Verge says they wouldn't have been able to save for a down payment to buy property themselves.

Still, the house is more than 100 years old and needs significant work, including electrical and insulation. Renovations are going slowly because Verge and her husband don't have the disposable income to reinvest in the house.

Their housing and financial situation could delay their decision on when to have kids, Verge says - though she admits kids aren't necessarily on their radar right now.

"Where do you even put a baby when you don't even have insulation in your walls?"

If she could go back to her senior year of high school, Verge wouldmake different choices, namely being more certain of what she wanted to study before spending $8,000 on a year's worth of university tuition, books and living costs.

"Any debt is a hindrance," says Verge, explaining it's harder to be a productive member of society while repaying tens of thousands of student loan dollars.

"I don't spend a lot of money. I don't even have a television or cable. I haven't taken a real vacation since my honeymoon. I don't have a savings account."

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Meet a graduate carrying Canada's average student debt load | CBC News

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Brittany Verge knew she would have to rely on student loans to pay for post-secondary education after high school. But as a teenager, she didn't realize how difficult paying off an average Canadian graduate debt load would be. "My worry is that I'm going to be, you know, with college-age kids some day and still paying my loan," the 26-year-old explains.

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This website relates to student loan debt because it talk about the debt that students have to deal with after graduating. The website talks about how the average Canadian's student loan debt is on the rise to past $25k which is not good. One piece of information that I found useful from this website is that the facts that the National Post puts in the article like how in 2013 & 2014 university and college students average about $12,480 in debt.

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TORONTO - Many of this year's new post-secondary graduates have left the academic world carrying tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Meantime, those heading to college and university this fall will soon contend with steep tuition rates that often result in a similar burden.

While schools attempt to lessen the load by offering financial aid, average student debt appears to be climbing. So some institutions are also responding by beefing up their mental health services to help students cope with life in the red.

"We're worried about one type of debt - student debt - and we want to know how to pay it off as quickly as possible," said Dillon Collet, who is about to enter his final year at the University of Toronto's faculty of law and sat on the dean's advisory committee on financial aid.

The committee organized a financial aid workshop that discussed the psychology of debt. It was well-attended, Collet said, with about 60 students in the room and a lineup outside.

The committee's student representatives also pushed to have tuition fees - and their connection to student stress - to be discussed at the faculty council's meeting each year, Collet said.

"A lot of students suffer silently."

Estimates suggest average student debt in Canada is past the $25,000 mark.

In 2013-14, graduates finished school with an average of $12,480 in federal loan debt, according to numbers from the Canada Student Loans Program.

However, that figure doesn't include provincial or private loans. An Ontario student graduating from a four-year university program, for example, shouldered an average of $22,207 in provincial debt in 2012-2013. That makes for a total debt load of more than $34,000 if they also borrowed the average sum from the federal government.

The Canadian University Survey Consortium surveyed more than 18,000 graduating university students from 36 Canadian universities for its 2015 annual report. The average debt-ridden student owed $26,819.

Such a debt load can have an impact on a student or graduate's mental health, though only a small amount of published research exists on the apparent link.

A 2015 journal paper analyzed data from a U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics survey of more than 8,000 youth in the United States - where tuition fees are significantly higher than in Canada - to determine if debt load and psychological well-being were connected.

"Students who took out more student loans were more likely to report poor mental health in early adulthood," said one of the paper's authors, Katrina M. Walsemann, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina.

Canadian experts have also noticed a link, even though Canadian students don't generally go into as much debt as their American cohorts.

Jillian Yeung Do, York University's director of student financial services, witnessed it while working with a student. While she couldn't provide much detail for privacy reasons, she said she became really concerned about a student.

"After that encounter, I decided that it would be a good idea to - for myself, personally, and as well for the entire team - to be trained in having these conversations with students," she said.

Students who took out more student loans were more likely to report poor mental health in early adulthood

The university's health educator taught the financial services staff how to identify students in distress, listen to them and provide proper referrals. York University also plans to launch a new financial literacy campaign soon, she said.

The University of Toronto's faculty of law staff, including its financial aid workers, will also have training on mental health issues next month, said Alexis Archbold, the assistant dean of the JD (juris doctor) program. She's also the chair of the dean's advisory committee on mental health and wellness, formed this past academic year.

Archbold and the committee spent the year listening to students' primary concerns. Unsurprisingly for a professional program, she said, high tuition and the anxiety of the corresponding debt load emerged as one of the common themes.

The school's new academic, personal and wellness co-ordinator will work with Archbold this summer to develop a wellness strategy, she said.

The committee will continue to hear from students on how to improve the strategy, which seems to fall in line with at least some of what the students want.

"We want a platform in which we can engage with the faculty and the administration," said Collett, "and we can really talk about the nuts and bolts."

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As student debt climbs to an average past $25K, schools invest in battling the mental-health issues it causes

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TORONTO - Many of this year's new post-secondary graduates have left the academic world carrying tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Meantime, those heading to college and university this fall will soon contend with steep tuition rates that often result in a similar burden.

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On this website you'll find interesting information on what student loan debt is and etc.

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By: Matthew Mangra