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Ford left holding the bag on 3,000% OSAP grift

An Ontario career college saw OSAP-funded enrolment surge nearly 3,000 per cent, yet it was excluded from the Ford government's spring funding restrictions.

Melanie Bennet
Nov 13, 2026
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Source: Wikimedia Commons (Benson Kua)

An Ontario private career college went from 562 OSAP-funded students to more than 17,000 in just three years, collecting $151 million in provincial student grants in a single academic year.

More than 97 per cent of those students were studying online.

Yet when the Ford government cut six private career colleges off from OSAP funding this spring, the Canadian College of Business, Science and Technology wasn’t among them.

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