Ontario plans to slash tuition fees by 10%

Ontario is set to announce that it is cutting tuition fees for college and university students by 10 per cent.

The current tuition fee framework, which has capped increases formost programs at three per cent, expires at the end of this academicyear, and the Progressive Conservative government will formallyannounce a new one on Thursday.

Core operating grants to post-secondary institutions arecontingent on their compliance with the framework.

International student tuition fees aren't regulated and are not included in the cut.