LOCAL
(FROM CBC) The Ontario Progressive Conservatives are eliminating free tuition for low-income families while they are reducing tuition fees by 10 per cent.
The government has reduced the threshold for funding to $140,000 and low-income students will now be given only a partial tuition for free and the rest as a loan. Families earning under $50,000 will earn the greatest amount of grants.
The tuition change is planned for the 2019-2020 school year. It will be frozen for the following year.
NATIONAL
(FROM CBC) Prime Minister Justice Trudeau met with Quebec Premier Francois Legault in Sherbrooke, Que. to discuss immigration.
Legault is looking for the federal parties to pledge to reimburse his province for $300 million used to process asylum seekers. The federal government has so far given Quebec $140 million.
Last month, the premier’s Coalition Avenir Quebec said it planned to implement a reduction in immigrants from 50,000 to 40,000 in 2019.
INTERNATIONAL
(FROM BBC) US President Donald Trump has prevented House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from attending a trip to Brussels and Afghanistan.
Trump denied Pelosi the use of a military aircraft to travel with. He then asked her to stay and negotiate the end to the partial shutdown of the US government. Pelosi’s trip had been cancelled less than an hour before she was to depart.
The shutdown was triggered by Trump 27 days ago when lawmakers refused to provide funding for a border wall on the border with Mexico.