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The York Region District School Board has significantly increased community-use fees for weeknight permits held by not-for-profit youth groups from $715 in the 2025-26 school year to over $5,400 for the upcoming year, marking an approximately 800% increase. This fee hike includes a substantial parking charge of more than $600. The article critiques these costs as unreasonable given that schools are funded by tax dollars and highlights the burden on non-profit organizations.
Written by the local model on 2026-09-15,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
In Aurora, Ontario, Susan James criticizes the York Region District School Board (YRDSB) for imposing significant fee hikes on not-for-profit youth groups using school facilities. For the 2025-26 academic year, a weeknight gym permit cost $715; by 2026-27, it skyrocketed to over $5,400, representing an approximately 800% increase. The new fees include an exorbitant parking charge of more than $600.
Meanwhile, Edward Collis from Burlington highlights the issue of expensive life-saving drugs, specifically mentioning Merck & Co.'s Keytruda, priced at over $100,000 per patient annually. He argues that such high costs are not reflective of fair medical pricing but rather exploitative practices, noting that Merck collected more than $30 billion in 2025 alone from these sales.
Both critiques underscore the broader issue of affordability and accessibility within Canada's healthcare system, which struggles with rising costs for new technologies and drugs.
Written for “School Fees Controversy” on 2026-09-17,
grounded in this article and the 0 other(s) covering the same event.
Why this leaning score
The model judged this article politically coded and scored it -0.35, but every quote it verified points right, so the score is not published.
Written under an earlier scoring contract, which gave a paragraph
rather than checkable quotes. Re-analysing this article replaces it.
Leaning score withheld for article 10235: score contradicts its own evidence · logged 2026-09-15
In the article, the focus seems to be on weekend permits citing increased custodial costs.
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focus → seem → costs
Meanwhile, York Region District School Board (YRDSB) has implemented truly unbelievable increases to weeknight permits held by not-for-profit youth groups.
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Board → implement → groups
For the 2025-26 school year, the permit I held for one weeknight gym was $715.
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I → hold → gym
That’s approaching an 800 per cent increase.
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That → approach → increase
That fee includes an honestly ridiculous parking charge of more than $600.
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fee → include → 600
Susan James, Aurora, ON
$100,000 for a life-extending drug is not medicine.
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100,000 → extend → drug
It’s extortion
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It → ’ → ?
Merck & Co. has produced an unpronounceable drug, brand named Keytruda, for the treatment of terminal cancers.
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Merck → produce → cancers
But they are selling it at prices in excess of $100,000 per patient, per year.
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they → sell → year
They have apparently priced it at the maximum that a dying person will be willing or able pay to extend their life, and have collected more than $30 billion in 2025 alone.
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person → price → 2025
Surely the Mafia is watching their success with great enthusiasm, admiration, and jealousy.
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Mafia → watch → enthusiasm
Edward Collis, Burlington, ON
Costly drugs are why major reforms to health care are needed
Another life saving drug that is unaffordable.
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that → need → care
This time, it’s a cancer drug which gives it more visibility given that cancer has touched, directly or indirectly, so many people.
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cancer → ’ → people
And like many life saving drugs, it’s unaffordable.
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it → save → drugs
Government health-care systems cannot afford it and most people can’t either.
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people → afford → it
This is the perfect example that shows how unaffordable our health-care systems are in Canada: we have life saving drugs, life saving tests, life saving technologies that didn’t exist when our health-care systems were born in the mid to late 1960s.
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systems → show → 1960s
With all these advances in the medical field, our life expectancy has increased by more than 10 years in less than six decades.
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expectancy → increase → decades
Canada is now having to support a large chunk of its citizens who would not have been alive 60 years ago: they go to the doctor more often, they need various tests, they need expensive drugs.
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they → have → drugs
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