A major union is again sounding the alarm for Ontario’s public colleges as international student enrolment drops to a trickle, programs are cut and major layoffs take place. globalnews.ca/news/11281454/… #onpoli

Colin D'Mello | Global News 1/2 The Ministry consistently cites the autonomous status of colleges as a reason for its inaction on critical issues. This raises serious questions about the fundamental purpose and role of such ministries. There is an urgent need to reform the current system. Institutions that

Colin D'Mello | Global News 2/2 operate using public funds must be held to appropriate standards of accountability and transparency. Autonomy should not serve as a shield against scrutiny, especially when the interests of students, faculty, and the public are at stake. Alexa Gilmour Nolan Quinn Lorne Coe

Doug Ford created a crisis in Ontario Colleges and when the federal government tried to help him clean up his mess, he just decided to do nothing and let chaos ensue. #ontario #onpoli #dougford #onted #ontariocolleges #frankdomenic🍁

“What we’re seeing is a classic playbook of starving the system of resources, forcing people out and worsening conditions...We will have lost nearly 10,000 jobs with no public scrutiny. We’re looking for some accountability.” #ONpoli #ONpse theglobeandmail.com/canada/educati…

John Tibbits, President of Conestoga College, took home $636,106 last year. Now, the college is rationing air conditioning to "cost-save" in the midst of a heat wave, with staff raising alarm about growing temperatures inside. Dystopian. #ONpoli #ONpse kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/07/09/sta…

Yesterday, workers, students, and parents came together to give Doug Ford notice: this fall, we’re coming together to demand justice for our community colleges. We will do whatever it takes - because it affects all our futures. #ONpoli #ONpse Read more: opseu.org/news/our-commu…

You can watch the full press conference live-streamed by CBC News here: youtube.com/live/6Mt_cEOrh…

We stand in solidarity with our support staff colleagues. opseu.org/uncategorized/…

“I do my best to provide a quality education and experience to all of my students ... Like, I can tell you that my well-being has been compromised in the last year, because sometimes what we do is, we put our students first,” he said. nowtoronto.com/news/faculty-s…

The root of the crisis in higher education lies with the fiscal time bomb planted by Doug Ford’s provincial government ... The latest job losses and cancelled courses were always foreseeable, because post-secondary funding remains unsustainable. thestar.com/politics/polit…

Larry Savage 1/4 Post-secondary institutions increasingly appear to be structured in a manner that prioritizes the protection of administrative interests, often to the detriment of students and educators. When members of these academic communities seek to assert their rights or

Larry Savage 2/4 express legitimate concerns, they are frequently met with standardized and perfunctory responses, typically invoking the principle of institutional autonomy. This practice gives rise to serious and pressing questions: What, then, is the function of the Ministry of Colleges

Larry Savage 3/4 and Universities? If institutional autonomy is consistently used as a blanket justification to avoid oversight and evade accountability, does the Ministry exist merely to insulate college administrations from scrutiny? Or should it not, rather, serve as a

Larry Savage 4/4 regulatory authority dedicated to upholding principles of fairness, transparency, and educational integrity within the post-secondary education system? Alexa Gilmour Nolan Quinn Lorne Coe Ontario Ombudsman Paul Calandra ON Colleges, Universities, Research & Security OPSEU OPSEU Local 242 Caitlin Clark

In the wake of what’s been described as the largest mass layoff in Ontario’s history—an analysis reveals that one-third of the affected programs are in business and management, while nearly a quarter fall under engineering, technology and applied science. thestar.com/news/gta/ontar…

Programs in the arts and media make up 14 per cent, with health sciences and wellness at seven per cent, and hospitality, culinary and tourism at six per cent, according to a Toronto Star breakdown of union data.

Programs axed incl. paramedic training, wastewater technician, musical theatre, brick masonry, machining, nursing, emergency dispatch, urban forestry, hotel management, palliative care, law clerks, massage therapy, energy auditing, jewelry arts, electrical engineering, baking ...

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A good discussion about how the Ontario public college system got to this point. 👇 theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-d…