Some good news from my former home province of Manitoba: "Post-secondary students will soon benefit from access to a free online textbook library thanks to the province's new Open Textbook Initiative, Education and Advanced Learning Minister James Allum announced today. 'Textbooks are one of the biggest costs faced by post-secondary students,' said Minister Allum. 'While we work hard to keep tuition fees among the lowest in Canada, this new initiative will save students money by giving them free online access to the reading material they need to achieve academically.'" Even when I lived in Manitoba in the late 1990s I agitated for open textbooks; it's nice to see it finally happen.
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