Worker of Lead

‼️The Canadian "Private College" scandal gets BLOWN OPEN New information: About 14,800 students at just three “Academy of Learning” franchise locations received more than $219 million in non-repayable OSAP grants in 2024–25, according to freedom-of-information data obtained by The Canadian Press. Students at every publicly funded college in Ontario combined qualified for about $385 million that same year. Three strip-mall-style career colleges took in well over half of what the entire public college system received in grants. The locations are Academy of Learning Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Brampton East, and a North York branch of the Brampton campus. They share a parent company. Career Colleges Ontario had already flagged them, along with other private schools, for OSAP application growth of 500 to 600 percent in two years while most campuses were flat. Court records from the schools’ challenge of a provincial funding cutoff show what inspectors reported. One Brampton student’s quizzes and final exam in a business-writing course were all completed the SAME DAY. The exam took six minutes. Another final was finished the first day the student opened the course. Inspectors said some students could not name their school, program, or courses, and that the Bay Street campus could not show OSAP-funded students were actually participating. Ottawa also raised concerns about growth, shared applications, and rising defaults. These are grants, not loans. The money does not come back. Our money is being given away. We need answers.