The Official Opposition New Democrats\u2019 critic for Colleges and Universities, Chris Glover (Spadina\u2014Fort York) said the NDP is very happy that yesterday\u2019s Ontario Superior Court ruling strikes down Doug Ford\u2019s attack on student unions, giving students who rely on student media and on-campus support centres hope that those services will be restored.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court is very clear that Doug Ford\u2019s attack on student unions and the services they provide is an attack on the fundamental rights of Ontario students,\u201d said Glover. \u201cHis attack has led to shortfalls in funding for student food banks, support programs for women and LGBTQ students, and for campus newspapers and radio stations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very glad to see the courts rein in the provincial government, even ordering the Ford government to pay the Canadian Federation of Students\u2019 (CFS) legal fees,\u201d said Glover. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that Ford\u2019s attacks \u2014 from municipal elections, to business contracts, to students\u2019 unions \u2014 are attacks on the legal and constitutional rights of Ontarians. We all should thank CFS for standing up for the rights of all students and all people in this province. Their hard work organizing rallies and student strikes is a testament to their resilience and leadership. The NDP is going to keeping fighting with them and for them until all Doug Ford\u2019s cuts to colleges and universities are reversed, and until Ontario starts investing in students again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ford is still plowing ahead with a $700-million cut to the colleges and universities\u2019 sector, making student loans more expensive and schools more strapped for operating dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Official Opposition New Democrats\u2019 critic for Colleges and Universities, Chris Glover (Spadina\u2014Fort York) said the NDP is very happy that yesterday\u2019s Ontario Superior Court ruling strikes down Doug Ford\u2019s attack on student unions, giving students who rely on student media and on-campus support centres hope that those services will be restored. \u201cThe court is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 10:40:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25953,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25952\/revisions\/25953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}