Late tuition fees proving costly to area university students

By Carys Mills. Splitting summers working at a grocery store and students’ union never made Nicole Desnoyers enough money to pay her University of Ottawa tuition on time.
Not with other bills, rent to pay and books to buy, said Desnoyers, 21, now in her fourth year of the women’s studies program.
So each August, left with few options, Desnoyers missed her tuition payment deadline, knowing the result would be late fees. “We can’t afford our tuition even after four months of solid work if you’re working a minimum-wage job,” she said. More...