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August 25, 2020

The Daily — Half of recent postsecondary graduates had student debt prior to the pandemic

Student debt varied by level of study. Professional degree holders recorded the highest median debt, at $60,300 in 2015. This level of debt was three times that reported by graduates with a bachelor's degree ($20,000) or with a master's degree ($19,700). Furthermore, they experienced the greatest change in their debt load from 2000 to 2015, with their debt rising from $39,800 to $60,300 during this period. College graduates recorded the lowest median student debt ($11,500).

MR Online | Why Cuban doctors deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
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U.S. allies in Latin America, such as Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador, expelled the Cuban medical missions. This would become a catastrophic decision for these countries as the COVID-19 pandemic developed across Latin America.

Emailer: Education for All | Canadian Federation of Students–Ontario | Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants–Ontario

Call on Premier Doug Ford, Minister of Colleges and Universities Ross Romano and your MPP to:

Immediately reduce tuition fees for the 2020/2021 academic year
Provide More grants, not loans
Increase public funding to gradually eliminate tuition fees for all students
MR Online | Open Letter: “Stand with anarchist publishers banned by Facebook”
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The anarchist public relations project Agency has published an open letter signed by hundreds of publishers, journalists, educators, authors, and activists condemning Facebook’s decision to ban pages associated with anarchism on the basis of a false equivalence between anti-fascist organizing and fascist violence.

After the Beirut Explosion, Disaster Capitalism Has Lebanon in Its Sights
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The explosion that devastated Beirut was an indictment of the parties that have misruled Lebanon for decades. Now, however, those parties are using the disaster as a pretext to deepen neoliberal policies, with French leader Emmanuel Macron and the IMF egging them on.

MR Online | “Information has value”: The political economy of information capitalism
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Information capitalism dominates the production and flow of information across the globe. It produces massive information institutions that are as harmful to everyday people as they are powerful. To this point, Information Literacy (IL) educators do not have a theory and pedagogy of information capitalism. This article appraises the current state of political economy in IL and begins to build a foundation for teaching a political economy of information capitalism.

Profit over People: Campus Reopenings and COVID-19 | Canadian Federation of Students–Ontario | Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants–Ontario

In March 2020, as COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, daily life was forced to change. For post-secondary institutions this meant shutting down campuses and moving in-person classes online.