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Ontario to Compel Colleges to Guarantee Foreign Student Housing

Students walk through the University of Toronto campus.

Photographer: Galit Rodan/Bloomberg
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Ontario, the most populous province in Canada and home to half the country’s foreign students, will require all colleges and universities to guarantee housing is available for incoming cohorts.

The move followed a cap on international students visas imposed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government earlier this week, which was aimed at quelling public anger over a surge in temporary migrants that pushed up rents and housing prices.