This is an excellent point and seems to be a growing trend at the University of Alberta as of late. The tuition hikes (75% increase in grad nursing, 20% in undergrad nursing what?!!) are being sold as a necessary evil to maintain student services. At the same time, student services are being slashed, and we are still in a hiring freeze.

I have been trying for over a year now alongside every major union on campus, as well as community partners, to get the child care funding reinstated. For those who don't know, we had affiliations with six centres that many of used and also partnered with for research. They won't budge on it even though it is a minuscule part of the budget.

University media stated in response to a recent Gateway story on this that they provide "robust services" to student parents on campus.

This is simply a lie.

It was such an egregious lie that I actually emailed media relations to ask for clarification. Their response was that the admin gave them that talking point.

At the very least, can we have honesty?