Tuition Campaign
The United Conservative Party of Alberta, Canada, has cut $690 million from post-secondary education, stopped the tuition freeze, increased student loan interest rates, slashed financial aid, and eliminated student work programs. MacEwan University is seeing a 7% increase in tuition per year over three years. A student will see a $400 rise in tuition (depending on the program) in September 2022. Coupled with the impacts of the COVID epidemic and our lack of access to proper teaching materials, students across campus are worried about the limiting education we are paying more to receive. Alternatively, the Alberta government gives $2.4 billion over the next four years to multi-million dollar corporations (CBC, Oct 2019). The UCP government is balancing the budgets on students' backs. Spread the word and contact Email and phone) your local policy-makers. Balancing the budget should not happen for the sake of our education.
Tuition Campaign ToolKit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhRcrq3c9b2PDeniVMUovpeQustZmiNLaosLx3Kfpns/edit
Tuition Campaign ToolKit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhRcrq3c9b2PDeniVMUovpeQustZmiNLaosLx3Kfpns/edit
RBC is Killing Me
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is one of the largest founders of fossil fuel extraction projects in Canada, investing approximately $200 billion into oil and gas since 2016. They are currently financing the Line 3 pipeline which violate Ojibwe treaty rights, the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline which goes through Wet’suwet’en territory, and countless other climate-destroying projects. Land defenders on the Wet’suwet’en territory have been trying to defend their land. During a provincial state of emergency in British Columbia due to the unprecedented floods, officers were sent by plane, with snipers to arrest land defenders. Many land defenders, along with journalists were arrested for defending traditional lands.
Find out more at https://bankonourfuture.org/defund-climate-chaos/
Find out more at https://bankonourfuture.org/defund-climate-chaos/