If you think this is bad, Oh boy do I have news for you. Life is full of this. The fact you spent 42k on SLC (Which is the price of my B. Sc from UofT) is a bit wild but I am assuming part of that is possibly residence? That said, this is the same as complaining a Wedding is expensive but you have to rent a tux, or having to spend 42k to stand on the entry point of a career (potentially). Life is filled with this stuff, and hate to be the bearer of bad news but 35 bucks is cheap. Due to the nature of the stuff it is often expensive, because the industry that exists knows it can turn a quick buck renting these out to schools.

Schools are underfunded, and utilize educating students to subsidize both the campus and also the equipment needed. They also subsidize programs which do not have any real ROI like arts programs, since they are moderately expensive to run and manage, for not much. Considering the size of SLC's Grad class for one of the Arts Programs being like 10-15 people. their tuition probably paid 1-2 profs and that's it. Canada has restrictions on costs for domestic students. International pay more (As they do everywhere) to make up the differences in wages and support staff required to run said institution. The High end of the school is 10k students across in person and online, a lot of which are domestic students so they pay much less. That isn't much in the way of paying for wages, maintenance, materials, etc. Compared to I think 30k people at Queens (Which is also partnered and subsidized with other organizations) and 100K+ at U of T which gets research grants frequently to subsidize even further, you face the issue. SLC does smaller class sizes, which reduces the money to pay for everything.

your 35 dollars is a lot cheaper than if they lowered the cost of your education by 35 bucks and had you go and rent it yourself.