OSAP Cuts Driving Students to the Edge
Joanne Mendes keeps her textbooks stacked beside a dish rack in the cramped kitchen she shares with four other students in Toronto’s east end. “There’s no room for a desk,” she says, laughing softly, “but I make it work.” A third-year sociology major and the first in her family to attend university, Joanne’s laughter fades when she talks about the cuts to Ontario’s student assistance program that upended her life
17 February 2026
7:38 AM
