A Funding Pause Catches Ballet and Divinity Students in Ontario

A pause on financial assistance payments to private post-secondary institutions in Ontario is affecting divinity schools, Canada's National Ballet School and many others, CBC reports. Students describe feeling unfairly swept up in what they see as a policy with a trawling net's reach. A category rule is blunt by design: the pause applies to a class of institutions, and ballet and divinity students end up inside it alongside everyone else the designation covers.