février 2019

By Alex Usher. OK, so on Tuesday I outlined what we know and don’t know about the Ford government’s new policy of rendering non-tuition fees non-mandatory and suggested that while some of it was confused and confusing, the effect was going to be quite detrimental to independent student groups. More...

By Alex Usher. In Australia (and possibly New Zealand, I’m not quite as familiar with the set-up there), there were two small differences:  first, what we call student unions had functions which were sometimes split between two distinct organizations: the “Students’ Representative Council”, which handled the political end of things, and the “Guild”, which handled all the clubs and services. More...

By Alex Usher. Last week, in the wake of the OSAP/Tuition announcements, I suggested that while most of the initial focus was on the changes to tuition fees and student aid, perhaps the more significant move was the announcement that many ancillary fees – specifically including student unions fees – were no longer to be mandatory and students had to be given the right to opt-out. More...

By Alex Usher. So, before I was rudely interrupted last week by Ontario’s government with its tuition/OSAP announcement, I was talking about whether the belief of Millennials that they are a uniquely put-upon generation was justified or not. My view was they certainly are not if your basis of comparison was income or wealth of Millennials in Canada versus its predecessors. More...