Content warning: suicide

CivNews host Ryan Banfield discusses what he has learned from creating an article for The Fulcrum meant to explain undergraduate tuition policy in Ontario.

Edit: The Fulcrum eventually abandoned the project and the article was eventually posted on December 24th, 2020 to Medium. It can be read at https://ryanbanfield.medium.com/the-recent-history-of-uottawa-undergraduate-tuition-7f3475276fa5

Topics covered include:

-The findings of the project itself.

-The limited nature of political rhetoric.

-The aid-based vs tuition-based approaches to university policy.

-Discovering the depth of the issue.

-The usefulness of online communication.

-The nature of public speech by the Civil Service.

-Complicated figures and unintended consequences.

-A potentially useful set of policies.