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The “Higher Education” Premiers of the 21st Century.

Quick, fun exercise: who are the top “Higher Education Premiers” of the 21st Century?  Let’s define this as simply the Premiers who made the largest investments in the sector (my criteria here is biggest increase over any four-year period – otherwise premiers with long tenures tend to get penalized).  Go ahead, write down your top four right now before I walk you through the data.  Anyone who guesses number 1 gets a gold star because I sure as hell didn’t guess

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June 6, 2022 1 Comment

Newfoundland and Labrador in a Nutshell

Morning folks.  Today we’re going to look at the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. As I demonstrated here, it is a lot like Alberta in its hydro-carbon related boom-and-bust funding cycles, but quite unlike it in its demographics and student numbers. Let’s start with student numbers.  Newfoundland and Labrador faced adverse demographics for post-secondary education for decades now, so simply keeping numbers steady is a bit of a triumph.  When the government reduced and then froze tuition in 2000, the province’s

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June 2, 2022 No Comments

Ontario Provincial Election Manifestos 2022

Thursday is election day in Ontario and somehow, a Conservative government that spent the last two and a half years managing the pandemic with a clownish and occasionally malevolent incompetence seems poised to win another four years with a majority government.  Still: I do these manifesto reviews come hell or high water, so here we go. Let’s start with the fact that the NDP and Greens both agree that the Ford cuts to OSAP need to be reversed, all three

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May 31, 2022 No Comments

Ontario in a Nutshell

All righty then: so far in this nutshell series we’ve avoided writing about the two “big” provinces, but since Ontario is going to the polls this week, we thought it made sense to tackle that province today, before we get to the manifesto.  Let’s start with student numbers.  You need to remember that Ontario is big.  Where post-secondary numbers are concerned, it has an even bigger footprint than it does in terms of physical size or population.  43% of all university

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May 30, 2022 No Comments

New Brunswick in a Nutshell

Morning everyone.  Today’s edition of the Nutshell series features one of the more anomalous provinces in Canada (from a higher education perspective, at least), the one whose beaches Le Monde once referred to as “Canada’s Riviera”: New Brunswick! New Brunswick’s anomalous status is mostly centered around the issue of enrolment: it is the only province in Confederation that has seen effectively no growth over the past two decades.  This is not to say that there have been no changes –

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May 24, 2022 1 Comment

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