Canadian philosophy PhD student Charles Bakker writes:

Some time ago now you kindly allowed my fellow philosophy graduate students and I to voice our concerns about the cost of a post-secondary education at universities here in Ontario. In light of this, I am asking if you would be willing to solicit feedback on this important issue on your website, as I suspect that circumstances have not improved for most. (See this concerning the lack of OSAP funding.) In particular, I would be curious to know whether most philosophy graduate students in Ontario/Canada are finding it difficult to keep up with the cost of living in their respective cities, given their funding packages and the rising cost of tuition. This, it seems to me, is precisely the sort of information that prospective graduate students should have as they deliberate.

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