Unify Action - March 05, 2026


She Is Questioning Whether College Is Still Worth It With Thousands In Debt


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3 minutes

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521

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33

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In this episode, we talk about the recent OSAP cuts and why we should all be thinking about not going to university. We also talk about why it s a good idea not to go to university at all.

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00:00:00.000 What do you think about the OSAP cuts, though?
00:00:02.680 Horrible.
00:00:03.220 OSAP.
00:00:03.720 Absolutely.
00:00:04.540 Yes.
00:00:05.320 As an OSAP student, I'm like, what am I going to do?
00:00:09.520 Yeah.
00:00:10.480 I know for my brother's friends in high school who are coming to university, they're rethinking
00:00:17.000 now because they don't want to come to university and have so much debt, and their families
00:00:21.680 are obviously low income.
00:00:23.220 Right.
00:00:23.560 So going into school just to get debt, not sure if you're going to invert a job after
00:00:28.420 doesn't really make a lot of sense.
00:00:29.820 right so hopefully yeah but then when you think about it though like a lot of students go through
00:00:37.440 university and don't even end up using their degree so it's like basically for four years
00:00:41.780 of wasted time so i don't know whether to hate them or be like okay maybe this will like let
00:00:49.040 people rethink they could literally be farther ahead in life if they don't even go to university
00:00:54.600 because, like, OSAP right now, it was, like, 85%,
00:00:57.520 so it wouldn't even cover everything.
00:01:00.360 So even now, like, I'm sure a lot of students are still in debt
00:01:03.860 even with OSAP, as it is.
00:01:05.440 So, I mean, I think people really need to rethink it a little bit
00:01:09.600 because, like, getting out there in the workforce,
00:01:12.100 you could, like, start a family, own a home much quicker,
00:01:14.840 even though, like, to be honest, with debt and then the housing market.
00:01:18.460 I know.
00:01:19.100 The housing market plus the debt, though, that, like...
00:01:21.620 I feel like there's no certainty in any path that you take right now.
00:01:24.760 So it's kind of just like what battle do you really want to fight?
00:01:29.500 It's a lose-lose situation, especially since our tax dollars are not really doing much for us.
00:01:34.800 So it's like if you don't, you get a good job, even if you don't go to university and you're like taxed to death.
00:01:41.940 And I find that funny that our premier says that, so they'll know. 1.00
00:01:47.780 And he's still making stupid makeovers. 1.00
00:01:49.560 Oh my God, that's so amazing. 0.99
00:01:51.320 yeah so yeah i do encourage people to rethink like some of the degrees that they're taking
00:01:59.220 because i don't know like to me from the outside i haven't taken an arts degree or anything but
00:02:04.360 sometimes i wonder like taking arts unless you're gonna professionally do painting i don't know like
00:02:11.880 is it really gonna oh like you mean or just visual arts as well or like other yeah i don't know just
00:02:19.420 to me looking at the outside okay so but what I'm doing is going into teaching okay so there
00:02:29.960 are like avenues I know a lot of stories with that but then again so you want to take up the
00:02:36.360 it to go that way. True. Yeah.
00:02:46.340 Yeah. And I also feel like you can't really go for your passions as well. That's what
00:02:49.980 university is essentially for, to be educated on something you're passionate about and then
00:02:55.560 go into a career about it. Yeah. You know, it's hard. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thanks
00:03:03.300 for stopping by. Thank you. Yeah.