As the strike in Ontario’s 24 community colleges enters its fifth week, students are starting to add up the numbers about the hit they’ve taken since the walkout by 12,000 faculty members began a month ago. Buragina, attending Fanshawe College, had planned to graduate in April and write a registration exam that would allow her to start working in May, but that’s now been bumped to September. In Southwestern Ontario, tens of thousands of students are affected at three colleges in seven cities. The strike by college professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians began Oct. 15 and has left 500,000 full- and part-time students out of class. By the numbers500,000: Students affected12,000: Striking faculty members24: Community colleges involved4: Full weeks since the strike began

Source: National Post November 13, 2017 15:15 UTC