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Sep 23, 2024 | 
theafronews.com | Erika Shaker
It's September and the start of a new academic year. Leaves are starting to fall - but tuition fees are not. Fees charged to students continue to increase across the country - by an average of about three percent since last year. But the price tag varies from province to province as a direct result of how much individual governments have chosen to download the costs onto students and their families.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
sasktoday.ca | Erika Shaker
It’s September and the start of a new academic year. Leaves are starting to fall – but tuition fees are not.
Fees charged to students continue to increase across the country – by an average of about three percent since last year. But the price tag varies from province to province as a direct result of how much individual governments have chosen to download the costs onto students and their families.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
troymedia.com | Erika Shaker
Reading Time: 3 minutesRising tuition fees and declining public funding are placing an intolerable financial burden on students and their familiesIt’s September and the start of a new academic year. Leaves are starting to fall – but tuition fees are not. Fees charged to students continue to increase across the country – by an average of about three percent since last year.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
yyccalgarybusiness.ca | Erika Shaker
Education access under threat as Quebec raises out-of-province tuition feesOn Oct. 13, the government of Quebec announced it would be doubling out-of-province tuition to $17,000 annually. This is a profound change from when I began my degree at McGill University in Montreal as a student from Ontario: I paid the same as in-province students – just over $500 per year in tuition fees.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
camrosevoice.ca | Erika Shaker
Education access under threat as Quebec raises out-of-province tuition feesOn Oct. 13, the government of Quebec announced it would be doubling out-of-province tuition to $17,000 annually. This is a profound change from when I began my degree at McGill University in Montreal as a student from Ontario: I paid the same as in-province students – just over $500 per year in tuition fees.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
theclarion.ca | Erika Shaker
Education access under threat as Quebec raises out-of-province tuition feesOn Oct. 13, the government of Quebec announced it would be doubling out-of-province tuition to $17,000 annually. This is a profound change from when I began my degree at McGill University in Montreal as a student from Ontario: I paid the same as in-province students – just over $500 per year in tuition fees.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
kirklandlakevoice.ca | Erika Shaker
Education access under threat as Quebec raises out-of-province tuition feesOn Oct. 13, the government of Quebec announced it would be doubling out-of-province tuition to $17,000 annually. This is a profound change from when I began my degree at McGill University in Montreal as a student from Ontario: I paid the same as in-province students – just over $500 per year in tuition fees.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
troymedia.com | Erika Shaker
Unveiling the motives behind anti-2SLGBTQ+ school protestsBy Erika Shakerand Jon MiltonOn September 20, crowds in cities and towns across the country gathered to protest against schools’ teaching children about the existence of 2SLGBTQ+ people. If you ask the organizers – many of whom are deeply connected to far-right and hate networks – they would say they have nothing against people with differing sexual orientations or gender identities; they’re just opposed to teaching it to children.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
monitormag.ca | Katherine Scott |Andrea Palframan |Stephanie Ross |Erika Shaker
Barbie is the runaway blockbuster of the summer. By September 4, box office returns were closing in on $1.4 billion worldwide—and that doesn’t even account for the revenue from the countless licensing deals Mattel has signed, from Airbnb to Xbox. The company is laughing all the way to the bank, but women aren’t. There’s a lot to say about the Barbie movie and its take on the patriarchy. Greta Gerwig’s movie has resonated with a large audience.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
monitormag.ca | Stephanie Ross |Erika Shaker |Trish Hennessy
Unions are having an inspiring moment of increased power and influence. In North America, workers are making organizing breakthroughs at Starbucks, Amazon, and other companies that have long busted union drives. Since 2022, strikes have surged in public schools and universities, the civil service, public utilities, shipping, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, journalism, and even in Hollywood.
