Get back to the bargaining table, premier warns, Oct. 31

I am a fourth-year nursing student at Ryerson/George Brown College. My academic situation is being heavily impacted by the strike at Ontario colleges. While I am still allowed to attend placement, I do not have access to a faculty adviser who can mark my assignments and provide me guidance with my learning plans.

Although I respect the college teachers and think they deserve what they are asking for, I cannot help but wonder what I am paying tuition for? This strike has been going on for almost three weeks. I paid almost $4,000 in tuition, which I am not going to be reimbursed for.

This situation has provided stress and anxiety in an already stressful program. Each week brings about uncertainty and I am trying to finish assignments with little to no guidance on when they might even be due. I am mainly worried about writing my accreditation exam in April. I am hoping I will not lose my semester but, at this point, I am not sure.

We are adults paying for a service so we can enter the job force. I want to enter health care so I can provide a quality service — a service that is already being cut back by Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government. Please, publish more stories about this to pressure Ms. Wynne’s government to stop this strike.

Please note that I have already sent her multiple letters expressing my opinion, with no reply. I also would like to write my MPP to express my concerns, but Toronto Centre does not currently have one — because Ms. Wynne refuses to hold a byelection.

I am a card-carrying Liberal but, after this fiasco, you can bet I will not be voting red in the next provincial election.

Hannah Norris, Toronto

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