{"id":80983,"date":"2026-02-18T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=80983"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:55:04","slug":"ontario-ndp-launches-save-osap-as-ford-hands-students-a-lifetime-debt-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/ontario-ndp-launches-save-osap-as-ford-hands-students-a-lifetime-debt-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario NDP launches &#8220;Save OSAP&#8221; as Ford hands students a &#8220;lifetime debt sentence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-18-at-13.52.42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-80984\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-18-at-13.52.42-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-18-at-13.52.42-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-18-at-13.52.42.png 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are fighting back against Doug Ford\u2019s latest attack on post-secondary education, launching the Save OSAP campaign to stop a plan that leaves young people behind:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOntario\u2019s young people are trapped in a vicious cycle,\u201d said Stiles. \u201cWith the highest youth unemployment in Canada and a sky-high cost of living, and now Ford\u2019s OSAP cuts \u2013 this is a policy that will hold an entire generation behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t just bad for students, it\u2019s bad economics. People will be graduating into debt instead of opportunities and stuck with a lifetime debt sentence for simply trying to build a future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot build a strong economy on the backs of a generation buried in debt. While Ford is busy insulting young people trying to get an education, students and their families will be forced to bear the costs of his cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario NDP is launching <a href=\"https:\/\/saveosap.ca\/\">SaveOSAP.ca<\/a> to amplify student voices and fight back against these cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoug Ford is famous for his flip-flops,\u201d Stiles concluded. \u201cTogether, we can turn this around. You deserve a government that has your back, not one that holds you back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are fighting back against Doug Ford\u2019s latest attack on post-secondary education, launching the Save OSAP campaign to stop a plan that leaves young people behind: \u201cOntario\u2019s young people are trapped in a vicious cycle,\u201d said Stiles. \u201cWith the highest youth unemployment in Canada and a sky-high &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":80984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 14:25:10","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\/80983","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80985,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80983\/revisions\/80985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}