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That Ontario Auditor General Report

Last week, the Ontario Auditor General put out a report on the Ontario Student Assistance Program and more specifically the new Ontario Student Grants – you know, the ones that made the province’s Targeted Free Tuition program possible.  And while the media release that accompanied the report really reads as if it had been written by a partisan staffer (it is void of nuance), the report itself is pretty interesting, not least because it accomplishes what apparently OSAP was incapable of doing on its own:

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December 11, 2018 No Comments

Ford’s Francophone Fracas

FordLate last week, Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli delivered a mid-year economic statement.  There wasn’t a whole lot of news in it, to be honest.  For the most part, it was a final government statement about how bad the previous government had been and a re-statement of actions taken to date.  There were repetitions about the need to get to a balanced budget and to reduce electricity rates, but no timetables for either were given.  But there were a few things

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November 21, 2018 1 Comment

More Provincial Expenditure Comparisons

I got a lot of feedback on last week’s blog about provincial PSE spending comparisons.  So much so that a few of you asked for a bunch of other comparisons.  This blog does nothing but aim to please, so let’s get to it. One question I received a couple of times was “what happens if you throw student assistance expenditures into the mix”?  This is a good question.  In particular, Ontario – which as you will recall came dead last in

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October 30, 2018 No Comments

Ontario Government Announces Huge Increase in International Student Numbers

[the_ad id=”11745″] Last week, freshman Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli appeared before the Economic Club in Toronto and, reading from the best-selling book “Oh My God Who Knew the Previous Government Left the Finances in Such Terrible Shape: A Guide to Your First Provincial Budget”, announced that the actual, real, pinkie swear, true budget deficit for this year was $15 billion rather than $6 billion and that to help close the gap, Ontario colleges and universities would be asked to increase

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September 25, 2018 No Comments

A PSE Agenda for an Ontario Conservative Government

The new Ontario Government doesn’t seem to have a lot of ideas around post-secondary education.  The only policy it has implemented to date is to give the go-ahead to plans drafted under the Liberals to get moving on a Francophone university in Toronto.  This project, as I have said before, has always been based on some deeply unrealistic assumptions, mainly that there is huge unmet demand for French-language education in southern Ontario that Glendon, Laurentian and Ottawa are too inattentive to have

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August 30, 2018 1 Comment

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