The Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations …

                 The Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations
                      Suite 233, 1657 Barrington St. Halifax, NS B3J 2A1. (902) 422-4068
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For Immediate Release                                           September 27, 2007


        Students demand action to prevent $350 million cut
 Federal government urged to renew Millennium Scholarship Foundation

(Ottawa) ­ Students in Nova Scotia will be the hardest hit by a looming cut to student financial aid
in Canada. The Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations (ANSSA), representing 75% of Nova
Scotia's university students, is concerned by the federal government's lack of leadership in taking
action to renew the soon-to-expire Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

Nova Scotia students face the highest financial burden in Canada and rely on Millennium
Scholarship Foundation grants that allow them to attend post-secondary education and to
graduate without crippling debt loads. Thirty-percent of students who receive financial aid in Nova
Scotia receive a Millennium Scholarship grant and the Maritime Provinces Higher Education
Commission has found these grants are the leading factor in reducing student debt in the
Maritimes.

Today in Ottawa, groups representing 600,000 students from across the country came together to
demand action by the federal government and released a report entitled Sleepwalking Towards
the Precipice. "These cuts are going to hurt the students who need the support the most," said
ANSSA Chair, Mike Tipping.

Matt Risser, a Saint Mary's University student from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, relied on a Millennium
Scholarship grant in order to pursue a post-secondary education. "Without this grant, I would not
have been able to attend university and I worry about the students coming after me," said Risser.

For a copy of Sleepwalking Towards the Precipice, the report released today, please see
www.anssa.ca/sleepwalking.pdf

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The Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations (ANSSA) is a not-for-profit, non-
partisan lobby group representing the interests of 75% of Nova Scotian students. We
are over 33,000 students at Dalhousie, St. Mary's, Acadia and St. Francis Xavier
Universities.

For more information contact:

Mike Tipping                              Paris Meilleur
Chair, ANSSA                              Executive Director, ANSSA
Tel: 902.223.6453                         Tel: 902.877.3491
Email: dsupres@dal.ca                     Email: ed@anssa.ca