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The senate standing committee on official languages has adopted a motion on post-secondary schools serving French-speaking communities in Canada. The motion aims to stabilize funding and secure a strong future for such institutions.
Moved by Franco-Ontarian Senator Lucie Moncion, the motion urged the federal government to work with its provincial and territorial counterparts to create an emergency assistance fund for post-secondary institutions that serve minority-language communities and whose survival is threatened by significant financial insecurity.
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Committee members said they adopted the motion on April 19 in large part because of the financial trouble institutions like Laurentian University are facing.
Laurentian crisis inspires senate motion
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Donna Borden, an ACORN member, advocates for stricter regulations of lenders selling high interest instalment and payday loans.
A single mother working the front desks at both a hospital and a nursing home, Donna Borden watched her debts grow.
On top of Toronto’s cost of living, Borden was juggling bills left behind when her mother died, plus helping her son buy university textbooks.
“I was trying to keep a roof over our heads,” Borden told HuffPost Canada.
Her bank refused to consolidate her debts and recommended she use the lender Fairstone Financial, then called CitiFinancial, Borden said. She took out an instalment loan in 2008 $10,000 to be paid back over five years with about 40 per cent interest.