University is far from cheap.
Canadian students depend on loans, part-time jobs, or maybe the ‘bank of mom
and dad’. But an expanding number of them are instead turning to wealthy
benefactors to help fund their education.
According to Seeking Arrangement,
approx. 300,000 students have used its ‘sugar daddy’ and ‘sugar mommy’ dating
site at some point. Many of them were likely in desperate situations,
considering university fees have risen 40 percent in the last decade. The
average yearly tuition is more than $6,000 a year.
Seeking Arrangement was founded
in 2006 by MIT graduate Brandon Wade. The website now has 20 million members
worldwide.
On average, ‘sugar baby’ students
get $2,925 a month, which is about double what they want to make it a part-time
job.
“Students shouldn’t be
overwhelmed with the idea of drowning in debt upon graduation,” said Brandon
Wade, founder, and CEO of Seeking Arrangement, in a news
release.
“Obtaining a great job,
experiencing life and preparing for a bright future should be a university
graduate’s main focus. While Canada does have one of the top university
completion rates in the world, it also ranks fourth for a most expensive
country to attend university.”
More than 10,700 students from 20
Canadian universities used sugar daddy websites in 2018.
The University of Toronto has the
most students using Seeking Arrangement with 1,170 by the end of 2018. It also
had the newest sign-ups with 362. York University had the second most new
sign-ups with 229. The University of Waterloo was third with 204.
Last year, between shooting Shadowhunters
and a stint on the Montreal-set crime drama Bad Blood, Hopkins made her first
short, The Give And Take, with a BravoFACT grant. It’s a gentle sci-fi drama
about two people who make a very unlikely connection over a sugar daddy app. (It’s now
available for free on the seeking arrangement service)
And, as often happens in the
industry, one thing led to another. After working with Hopkins on Bad Blood,
producer Mark Montefiore noticed her tweeting about The Give And Take.
As Canadian film shifts in a big way to expand
the pool of voices that get to tell stories, we’ve rounded up actors,
filmmakers, and producers who are already forging ahead.
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