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OTTAWA—The average cost of tuition and compulsory fees for Canadian undergraduate students will rise by almost 13% over the next four years, from $6,610 this fall to an estimated $7,437 in 2016-17, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and ranks the provinces on affordability for median- and low-income families using a Cost of Learning Index.
OTTAWA — La moyenne des frais de scolarité et des frais obligatoires des étudiants du premier cycle dans les universités canadiennes augmentera de presque 13 % au cours des quatre prochaines années pour passer de 6 610 $ cet automne à un total estimé à 7 437 $ en 2016‑2017, selon une étude dévoilée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA).
This study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and ranks the provinces on affordability for median- and low-income families using a Cost of Learning Index.
"Nora Loreto refreshes the indispensable union movement for the younger generation of Canadians rendered defenseless by avaricious and cruel corporate globalization. Read it and take the reins of your future in new and forceful directions for worker justice." —Ralph Nader  From the Introduction:
Back in February, 2013, CCPA-Mb  put out a Fast Facts  titled Six Unions: One Voice1  which chronicled the many problems faced by staff at the University of Manitoba campus . We explained how an intense process of corporatization was negatively affecting all manner of University employees, from tenured professors to caretaking staff.
Doctors are demonstrating their ethical duty to patients by working towards a society in which everyone has an opportunity to lead a healthy life.
From teaching dance to elementary school students, to using poetry about conflict in the Middle East to facilitate a classroom discussion about difference and acceptance, the arts provide students with opportunities to engage more deeply with their learning process(es), expose injustice, and work towards a more fair and equitable world. The summer 2013 issue of Our Schools /Our Selves explores the relationship between education, social justice and the arts.
Details of the Ontario government’s ironically named Putting Students First Act have not been adequately explained to the public. The missing facts about this legislation follow.  Pay Freeze
This useful collection brings together the reflections and perspectives of practising professionals in the field of Indigenous education. By sharing their own learning journeys and discussing teaching and leadership activities, the twelve contributors demonstrate their own efforts to work within dominant and dominating structures to strengthen and improve educational programming for Indigenous students.
This study finds public funding for postsecondary education is repaid many times over by graduates in the form of higher personal income taxes paid on the income they earn. In addition, it demonstrates the claim that subsidized tuition amounts to an unfair, regressive income transfer from lower-income families to middle- and upper-income families is simply not true.