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Toronto Star examines the students stranded by Ontario's OSAP freeze

Education reporter Kristin Rushowy explains how a sector-wide funding cutoff reaches beyond tuition to rent and groceries.

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Who's paying the price? Ontario's private college OSAP freeze explained

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0:46Rushowy explains eligibility restrictions and the shift toward loans rather than non-repayable grants.
2:47Investigations expanded into a temporary sector-wide cutoff, with permanent restrictions planned for predominantly online programs.
3:40Private career colleges serve mature students, immigrants and trainees entering care, transport and early childhood education.
4:52Students face rent and tuition pressures, while some institutions offer food pantries and deferred payments.
5:41High default rates complicate the province's proposed third-party low-interest loans.

Students training for a new career still have bills to pay while their funding is frozen. That practical problem anchors Toronto Star's most-watched new upload, with education reporter Kristin Rushowy joining Aajah Sauter on Beyond the Headline.

In "Who's paying the price? Ontario's private college OSAP freeze explained", Rushowy traces how investigations into irregularities widened into a temporary sector-wide cutoff. OSAP, the Ontario Student Assistance Program, provides grants and loans for post-secondary study. Her focus is on those caught waiting: mature students, immigrants and people training for work as personal support workers, truck drivers and early childhood educators.

The consequences reach the grocery budget. Rushowy describes students struggling with rent and tuition, alongside schools offering food pantries and deferred payments. A proposed alternative involving third-party low-interest loans faces its own difficulty, she explains: high default rates make financial partners hard to secure.

The interview drew roughly 4,600 views and has the strongest daily momentum among the channel's recent videos. Thirteen uploads filled the week, including federal-budget explainers and a report on Canada Post's planned delivery changes. Away from policy, Angine de Poitrine's sold-out Toronto concert supplied a surprise third member, and that upload is also among the channel's busiest right now.

Subscribers held steady, while daily views are now about twice the usual level. Nearby in subscriber size, The Canadian Press drew a substantially larger weekly audience, while SBS Audio had a quieter week. For Toronto Star, the college-funding interview is the clearest point of attention, bringing a provincial policy decision down to the cost of finishing a course.

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