Enrolments by foreign students are down by 45 per cent this year, Universities Canada told the Toronto Star, a much sharper decline than the 35 per cent cut the federal Liberals said they were targeting with new caps on study permits covering undergraduates. (Toronto Star)

Talking point: Even major institutions like Ontario’s Queen’s University have warned they’re facing financial ruin—and that was before the caps announced in January. Now Universities Canada has said the whole system is in danger. The Liberals also restricted international students’ (and their spouses’) rights to work during and after their studies, as part of a broader squeeze on temporary admissions to Canada. International students, who pay much higher tuition fees than Canadians do at Canadian universities, provide outsized shares of the schools’ revenue and universities resisted the new federal caps.