{"id":3752,"date":"2008-02-25T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/02\/canada-abolish-tuition-fees-liberal-senator-says\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T16:11:05","slug":"canada-abolish-tuition-fees-liberal-senator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/02\/canada-abolish-tuition-fees-liberal-senator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Abolish tuition fees, Liberal Senator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays_paper\/story.html?id=332285\">Abolish tuition fees, Liberal Senator says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8211; Canada should abolish tuition fees for all post-secondary students because everyone needs a college or university education these days to compete in the global economy, says Senator Elizabeth Hubley.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Senator from Prince Edward Island is hoping to jump-start a debate that has played out internationally but has been muted in Canada, about whether an economy with a shortage of skilled workers can benefit from offering up free education for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Post: Abolish tuition fees, Liberal Senator says OTTAWA &#8211; Canada should abolish tuition fees for all post-secondary students because everyone needs a college or university education these days to compete in the global economy, says Senator Elizabeth Hubley. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/02\/canada-abolish-tuition-fees-liberal-senator-says\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[621],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}