Fact Sheets

Students who live in university or college operated residences in Manitoba are not protected by the Manitoba Residential Tenancies Act - legislation that outlines tenant rights.

The Manitoba Residential Tenancies Act to most Manitobans who rent their homes or apartments. In absence of protection under the Act, university and college administrators can violate the privacy of student residents by entering their living quarters with little or no notice, evict student tenants with little or no notice, and impose highly restrictive regulations on students' lives. University and college residents are also not protected from controlled rent increases.

The Canadian Federation of Students-Manitoba seeks provincially-mandated standards of protection, accountability and transparency for student residences. The Federation seeks the inclusion of students and their residences at universities and colleges under the Manitoba Residential Tenancies Act.

International students pay hundreds of dollars for basic health care, thousands of dollars in tuition fee premiums, are not eligible for student aid in Canada and often face stereotyping, racism, and xenophobia - does this sound like equality?

This brief informed our campaign to lobby the provincial government to include international students under basic provincial health insurance. In the Fall of 2011, the Manitoba government announced international students will be covered under public health insurance by Spring 2012.

This factsheet provides an historical overview of tuition fees in Canada; explores the impact of high fees on student enrolment and retention, debt and employment after graduation; and offers a comparative analysis of fees in Canada with New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

This factsheet provides an historical overview of government funding for post-secondary institutions in Canada, explores the impact of funding cuts on universities and colleges, and concludes by proposing a dedicated post-secondary education transfer payment.

This factsheet explores how the differential fees paid by international students in Manitoba are short-sighted, restrict access, undermine diversity and fail to uphold Canada's international obligations.

Students' unions are democratically-run organisations in which members enjoy the right to shape every aspect of the organisation. The collective membership of students forms the highest decision-making body of the organisation.

Although the internal functions, democratic accountability and fiduciary responsibilities of students' unions and their respective Boards of Directors are already legislated through the Corporations Ac (CA), the capacity of students' unions to fulfill their responsibilities under their own bylaws and the CA lies more or less with colleges' and universities' willingness to collect and remit students' union fees.

When conflict arises between the management of post-secondary institutions and students' unions, it becomes clear that a more comprehensive legal framework would benefit everyone involved.