I just want to say this couldn't have come in a better time for me. I am literally 3 days away from having a meeting with them to apply for loans/grants. I should of looked more into them before applying but after seeing this and doing my own research on them after, I will be dropping my program with them today. Thank you.

Every student should do a class action lawsuit against them, they’re scamming you

Canadians has to be one of the most taken advantage people on planet earth. From insurance, télécommunication, utility, education, housing etc. So many scam institutions.

I studied at CDI for almost 3 years, it cost 20K. I passed the class with one of the highest grades and immediately found no one wanted to hire me. after about a year and a half of searching I finally got lucky with a company that was expanding so hard they were hiring anyone and everyone. But I found out that I was severely unprepared and nearly incapable of performing the job at all. Fast forward one burnout and 5 years of thinking I wasted my time, effort, and money, I got lucky again because my friend became a lead at his company and took pity on me. I'm doing ok now, I'm stable and able to work in the field I studied for. Make no mistake, this had NOTHING to do with CDI. After this journey, I can honestly say that I could and probably should have done this without CDI.

My Mother went to CDI years ago for dental - found out after spending thousands of dollars that this college was not accredited course. This had a detrimental effect on our entire family's lifestyle. Thank you, CDI College.

It was a scam 20 years ago always trying to rip off students, trying to skip courses that were paid ahead of time. After spending $16k in 2001 I got a "diploma" that held less value then my high school diploma. Thankfully back then people in IT didn't really care if you finished your school they only cared if you had the certifications and could actually do the job. CDI left me resentful so much so that I used that "diploma" to start a fire when my wife and I went camping summer of 2003.

I was hired as a teacher at a private college in Ontario in 1996. There was no program outline provided, just an outdated text book, and I was required to start teaching the next week. More than half of the students in my class did not speak, read or write in English. I realized quickly that the school was scamming the students and quit after two months. I hope our government cracks down on these schools and focuses on protecting the students.

I don't understand how this is not a criminal offense. Isn't fraud a crime?

Private colleges are frequently not accredited so finding a job will be difficult. Go to a public institution.

I worked as their HR around the same time Adam was employed and I can say they definitely are scamming students out of their money. Thank you Adam and CBC for speaking out about this!! ❤❤ Edit: Going to put it here incase people were wondering. I was hired as an entry level HR assistant and only stayed there for a couple of months. I left the organization after seeing how employees were treated on top of one of their executive staff verbally harassing me. I’ve tried reporting the company while working there to no avail. I will always side with the employees and students at CDI, Vancouver Career College and VCAD.

One time I wanted to do pharmacy assistant, once I went to their office my instinct told me this is not a good school and never went back . I feel bad this happened to students

I am thrilled to see this! How do they get away with this?! It's outright fraud and thievery and MUST be investigated as criminal!? This summer I inquired about an online program and something didn't feel right; it felt as though pressure sales was definitely being practiced! The "program coordinator" was a little too aggressive...

It's about time CDI is investigated. They opened a campus in Longueuil, QC in the 90s and everything sounded fishy about them. Later, I met with some of their "students" and I can tell you that they were already unqualified and outdated even before finishing their computer program. Everybody in I.T. knew not to hire someone trained at CDI, or to expect to have to re-train them. CDI is the last place where you want to go for I.T. training.

I have had exact experience like these students with CDI. This needs a class action lawsuit

Should be a class action lawsuit for their misleading information and accreditation falsehoods. Any of these post secondary institutions, if they are accredited should be listed on the relevant body's website.

My daughter signed up for their Dental Receptionist online program. She has some learning challenges, but the recruiter told her it wasn't a problem. She would just need to have their disability forms completed and she would then get a learning assistant to help her. She did that, and qualified for additional grants, which was supposed to go to pay for a learning assistant. She never got an assistant. One month into the course, the instructor left. They found an replacement a few weeks later and that instructor left too within the first week. There was no instructor but CDI told her to keep going, which was impossible. So she asked if she could be transferred to another course, which they said absolutely that they would do that...but that never happened. Shortly afterwards, she was ghosted by them, not answering her emails or returning phone messages. She has nothing to show for it but a student loan. They pocketed the all the money and grants and she got nothing but the debt. I did a program with them too...spent over $21,000 in tuition, and did not get what they promised the program would provide. The training was sub-par to what they advertised. I pretty much spent my entire time watching KZfaq videos. When I had questions, the instructor told me to just Google them. I completed the program 1.5 years ago, I am not working in the industry that I spent $21,000 in tuition to be trained. When I apply for positions, I am told that I lack the basics. The training was worthless and very expensive. I'm curious as to how to start a class action lawsuit against them...how do we get started?

I literally went to speak to an advisor at CDI last week and was thinking of enrolling. Perfect timing

It’s about time this awful “college” gets what’s coming to them. They treat their employees even worse.

CDI did this to my friend, a recovering alcoholic who was trying to better her life. In the end, I know they were part of what threw her back into her dependency

I was hired by a large family that owned several Academy of Learning locations. Hired for admissions. It was terrible, they wanted me to focus on mothers on welfare as they would benefit from day care while they took the course. No care for the student being saddled with a large loan. There was a wonderful guy there working as a counselor, he tried to create job opportunities for the students and got ZERO support from the owners. We moved across the province to an expensive city for this job, but I quit 3 weeks after starting. Scary times, but I couldn't be part of this.

Instead of these colleges popping up everywhere they should open more community colleges so students don’t have to pay so much

I’m currently enrolled in CDI. This is the exact same thing happing in my life as we speak. I was just talking about this with some of the other students today. CDI is threatening to kick me out of school because I can’t pay the $653 they expect me to pay for online Ebooks that I only get to use while I’m enrolled. It gets worse. I went online and checked out the prices of the same books, but in physical form. The total cost for all 6 textbooks came to $108.34! So of course I mentioned this, but the response i got was “you signed the documents when you were registering”. The registration process felt like I was buying a car from a dealership. And another thing, I really sucked in school when I was growing up, so there is absolutely no way Im actually getting 90-100% on all my assignments. All I can say is that if I’m stuck with a $20K loan, I will have a lot of other students behind me when we take CDI College to court.

This is so SAD that its happening in CANADA and NO ONE is doing anything about it! I hope this scam WILL SOON BE STOPPED!

How was he even allowed to start a college after seeing his background in California? Where are the regulators in Canada? So much consumer fraud on so many levels, specially in higher education. I taught at one of those “colleges” in Vancouver but quit after 2 terms cos I sensed that the curriculum and approach made is fraudulent to recruit more students and secure tuition revenue, and none of the instructors cared about the quality of the courses taught, and barely any supervision from the academics at the college

Canada has very weak laws when it comes to protect their citizens

Thank you for finally uncovering this tragedy. I have known this for years

CDI screwed me over too. 20,000+ in tuition. Over charged for books, classes disappeared mid semester. Taught myself everything. Most of their staff was unhelpful and those who weren't unhelpful didn't away long

Thank you CBC and thatCEO belongs in jail

How is this not leading to a class action lawsuit, why are there so many grifters in this country.

this is why a KZfaq education is getting more and more valuable..

I feel so bad for these people. School is no joke it is draining on so many levels so when a person finally makes the decisions to go, and get lied to is just down right WRONG!

ITT Tech did this to me. 10 years and 40k in debt later, I filed with the class action lawsuit and all of my student debt was wiped clean. It is called predatory lending.

My mom was enrolled at the school in Edmonton and a month before graduation they lost accreditation in nursing and it caused my mom a whole lot of pain for years and shame

Thank you CBC for your amazing work at exposing fraudulent and unethical businesses and for these victims to come forward. Governments urgently need to now step up and close down uncredited institutions such as these and see that victims are reimbursed fully. When I was on EI, the Ontario government funded and allowed me to do a payroll management diploma at Canadian business college. Only after graduating I then realized it was uncredited after being informed by Sheridan college.

damn this makes me both happy I never enrolled at CDI when I was considering them, but also sad for their victim(students).... completely unethical.

Well, I have first hand experience with this school. So much so that a group of us staged a protest, covered by the media, because they were using demo programs to teach network technology. Had to get re-educated at a local university. Because of the protest, they fully refunded my tuition.

Wow, what a powerful documentary. Take caution everyone, always check accreditation of courses, reviews and student experiences. This will always give you a true feeling. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. It was nice to note at the end that the regulator is stepping up and investigating. It probably is a little late but it's a start. A shocking experience for many and now they have huge debts. Don't pay without a fight. I really feel for the lovely lady with the terrible CC diagnosis, if you read this comment, I wish you the very best of luck in your treatment. What a horrible way to treat people.

What's more mind-boggling is that "colleges/universities" like CDI College were still listed as options for post-secondary schools alongside actual accredited institutions like UofT and York U on the drop-down list when I was applying for student loans (OSAP) way back in mid 2000's. I attended a public government-accredited university. I don't know if the application choices have since been changed because it's now been nearly 2 decades have passed since my university days.

I went to CDI back in 1999/2000. Started in network technician program and they failed me and almost my entire class out of it, later realizing they had an error in their windows 98 test everyone kept failing. They moved me over to a business program. I was never ever able to get work doing what I got a diploma in. Just lots of debt I had to pay off.. was never impressed. Nor was any of my courses able to be used as credits when I went to a different college later.

They have a new scam. It's called recruiting international students who don't know better.

Unfortunately I have fallen victim to this school and now thousands of dollars in debt. I should have known by the very first meeting where i was just going to talk to someone about the school. Instead of answering my questions they just signed me up and told me I started the following week. I lasted 4 months there before dropping out once I felt like I wasn’t going anywhere with just teaching myself. Looking back I should’ve known to leave but I was excited to turn my life around

They have been misleading students since i attended in 2006. After completion of my course, I found out the credits mean nothing and had to go to the community college to re do all of what i had just completed because they gave me false information. I was told by the counsellor the admissions rep and the teachers that they would be transferable /accredited and they flat out lied, took my money and then said nothing until i received my certificate. That's when they dropped the ball. For a single mother with a toddler at the time, I was devastated, defeated. Paying the tuition there and then the tuition for the community college to get the actual credits set me back almost 7 years.

I was told that the Graphic Design Technology program I took last year was accredited, I was told that I would be receiving a $1,000 scholarship for signing up, which turned out to be an outright lie. I was told the instructors all had a Masters, although they would not give me names for 'privacy reasons'. I was told that there was a greater than 85% employment rate after the completion of this course, and there are less than 1% of the people I attended with able to get a job. We have learned that this course is laughed at in the industry. The other thing was being told that the course materials were all the latest available, and that was a bald faced lie too. The books were from 2017, Adobe Classroom in a Box, which is updated every year. The course was almost all You Tube videos I could have gotten for free, and none of the instructors even have a Bachelors never mind a masters. I went through three instructors in the 10 months of the online course. In order to ge my diploma sent to me, I had to threaten them, as they would not release it without me stating that had a job, even though it was freelancing. I'm in my sixties, and now have a student loadn of over $15,000 to deal with as I'm trying to pay off bills before I get too old to work. I feel disheartened and disgusted. A class action would be appreciated by all of us!

I knew immediately something was wrong when their talent acquisition approached me for an "admission officer" opportunity. After a bit of research, I found out that this was simply not an admin position. It involves sales quota which was a big red flag. That being said, I would be constantly under pressure to lure students in and make false promises to them in order to achieve my metrics. No thank you!!

I got scammed by CDI college 10 years ago and I’m still struggling to pay off a student loan that literally did nothing for me. I was never able to get into the field I graduated from, even with amazing grades and a top notch practicum. Nobody wanted to hire me because I graduated from CDI. I’ve been paying my loan off for 10 years and have barely made a dent due to interest. Something needs to be done about this and anyone who paid money into this “school” should have their loans forgiven and reimbursed for money they paid out of their own pockets. This school literally ruined my life. They’re criminals and it’s insane they’re still in operation.

Wow! I'd be looking to sue. This is absolutely unethical! Great expose, Marketplace.

How business men (more like financial criminals) can exploit students and their money (which is extremely hard to save when you're a student btw) to get themselves richer is just the scummiest thing someone can do. I hope those students get the money back and I wish them all the best with their future. I hope CDI gets blacklisted.

I worked at CDI COLLEGE as a Business Instructor. I had to pass All my students. They paid me 37k to manage 35 students per class. I taught over 10crses. In 4 years, they bumped me to 45k. It was a terrible place to work

I went to CDI College for the HCA program and had a terrible experience. I paid over 15k in student loans and the course itself was majorly disorganized, with the instructor themselves not having ALL access to their teaching materials. For 18 students we shared 1 lab area with incomplete lab equipment, insufficient supplies, and only 4 beds with barely functional controls and mannequins. Oftentimes any concerns that were brought up were ALWAYS dismissed. Threatened us going into our practicum as well. Went during covid 19 era and they threatened us saying that any missed dates we would be kicked out of the program. No understanding with religious events, and often had favouritism with certain students. For the amount I paid, DO NOT go here!!!!

Please share this to every other student you think might be considering to enroll. Based on how government works here it's unlikely any action will be taken against the CEO In the meantime we can limit the harm it can cause to anyone getting scammed

I went there (in Winnipeg) in 2005, was 18 years old and didn't know better. At the sales pitch, I was promised all the books were included, which ended up being a lie. Our instructor was selling our outdated computer equipment online and buying pizza with the cash. When I started calling them out on it, they started refusing to allow me in, based on "dress code" (my black pants apparently weren't "proper" dress pants), then told me if I wanted to finish, I'd need to apply for additional grants, even trying to convince me to apply for a single mothers grant (as a 18 year old, single male). I've got novels worth of stories from that place, gained absolutely nothing, and left financially ruined for my age.

This is long overdue. I was also fooled by this for Profit-College back in 2006. The experience left me in debt for a course which essentially couldn’t get me an entry level job in the field. At the of the program students were sent on internship to start off their prestigious financial/accounting careers but ended up working at nearly minimum wage at collection call centre. That’s what $17,500 got us. We were taught by former students who would turn teachers a day after completing the program, the entire thing was a sad joke which costed people real money and time of their lives. I’ve worked creative jobs for years while repaying an expensive failed attempt at a white-collar career. Class action lawsuit?

ALL OF THE POLITICIANS FIGHTING TO SOFTEN REGULATION ON THE BEHALF OF THEIR WEALTHY DONORS MAKE THIS POSIBLE. CONSERVATIVE POLICIES COME AT A PRICE.

I just finished at CDI..accounting and payroll course...it was so bad...trying to teach ourselves,we in ontario were also told it was an accredited course..and for me...I never thought it wouldn't be as I got an OSAP loan to pay for it, so in my eyes it is government approved...by the time I realized it was not a good college I was already in to far...so I had to keep going in order to not have to pay back the whole 20 grand..but after all the crap I went through, trying to teach myself and feeling defeated and angry all the time...I kept thinking it will be worth it when your all done..to only find out ,I will never have the job in my field because it is not an accredited course..and I cant afford to do it all over at another college...there is so many other things that this college has put me and my classmates through..a law suit does need to happen..so that everyone that was wronged can get there money back...because that would be the right thing to do..and for the OSAP people should no longer giving people money for this college.

Not just CDI - I'd love @CBCnews to look into other private schools like VCAD. The most unreal experience which has cost my partner $40,000. He has continued through the program, hoping that it would get better until he realized it would not, but he just needs to finish. Incompetent teachers, zero organization (double booking teachers, constantly changing student services admin, zero to poor communication to address concerns, textbooks being sent out a year late, allowing students to talk about non-school subjects for 70% of a class...almost every class), etc.. My partner attends the online class, but ends up using KZfaq to learn things that he should be learning in his 40k program. It's disheartening that there isn't a better way to hold these schools accountable. You must launch a complaint within the first year, which when you are trying to change your career and life, is just too much invested time to give up.

Absolutely ridiculous that they can get away with this. Thank you for covering this!

This needs to happen nationally

My hubby went here about 18 years ago for an IT course that was supposed to give a diploma and allow a cert test to be taken. He was ahead of the class and only took it for the paper/certification. He had top grades, but had to take a day off to attend a funeral. He came back and was told he was removed from the course as "he missed too many days" (literally 1, and he emailed the prof). Argued with the administration, proved he sent an email, prof said he lied about it, then offered to "relist for next semester". Hubby had literally 2 weeks left of his course. Such a scummy school. Luckily he got his cert and got into IT without the paper, but not before being 8k in debt. I also don't recommend going to art institutes either, got scammed for 18k for the same practices (for the video game animation program).

It's not just CDI college. I'm in a job where I see people enrolling in private career colleges and I wish I could warn them. I literally see one college that accepted a student (newcomer)who did not know how to use the computer. The course was online and remote. The poor girl dropped out after a week of struggling to use the computer . They still took some of the tuition. But I blame our government too. It shouldn't be so easy to open a school in Ontario. Ontario shouldn't be that "open for business" .It seems just about anyone can register a college and the truck driving and heavy equipment schools are the absolute worst. My advice is to only apply to a public college. There is more structure and ethics

I’m glad I didn’t enroll through on line studying with them. I was desperate to finish my Early Childhood Education Program which I started from my local college I’m so glad i listened to my instinct. I always felt that CDI wasn’t a legit school. Now that I saw the owner, it really proved my instinct. I feel bad for all the people who got scammed.

i went to one of their calgary campuses and let me tell you, only a few of the teachers were actually qualified to teach their courses, and they were horrendously underpaid. the last ive heard, most of the actually good teachers left for better positions at better colleges/universities.

About 10 years ago, an old friend of mine attended a pharmacy tech program at CDI in BC. Upon graduating, she was told by shoppers drug mart she did not have the right credentials to apply at SDM or London Drugs! I’m not sure if that’s changed now, but this was around 10 or so years ago. Sketchy school. Stay away!

Thank you CBC for always trying to uncover truth and educating our country 👏👏

In 2011, I joined the PSW certificate program. It was supposed to be a 6-months program and cost more than $6000. At the time, this college-level certificate cost as much as a university-level semester course. The instructor had to pay out-of-pocket to purchase healthcare equipment so us, students could have hands-on practice. She also had to go source placement options for us when this should have been an admin responsiblity. We could tell this was stressing her as she was hired to teach us, not spend her own money on equipment to furnish a lab CDI should have had already set up. I don't know if she ever got her money back, but she ended up quitting 3-4 months into the program when we were supposed to start student placements. I don't fault her because they were totally unfair to her. 1-month delay as they tried to find a replacement. At the beginning of the program, we were told that we would have an exam to complete after the student placement was finished so we could get the certificate. Placements finished and no word of when this exam was going to be. We waited 3-4 months before getting an exam date. And even then, there were only 3 students in this program, and all of us had to come in on different days to take the same exam. How hard is it to plan an exam for 3 students?!! I filed a dispute to their management because of the long wait and wanted a refund back. Did not get any money back. I filed a complaint to the ministry of education. I didn't think anything would come out of it but I wanted an official record of the way the instructor and students were treated. More than the money, I was so frustrated with the wasted time. The management did not seem to have any clue how to run the program nor what content/equipment was needed. I would not recommend this school to anyone.

My bf's mother went there to become a medical secretary. When she graduated, none of her credits were valid for her to be able to work as a medical secretary. She sued them and won

Everyone of these private colleges needs to be shut down and the ministry needs to be held responsible! I have been yelling this since 2009 when I worked at Ontario Works and Second Career (Ministry of Colleges and Universities funded)do nothing to check on what is going on in these "schools". So many OW participants leave school and are unable to find employment. My partner at the time was enrolled in another private college that had terrible teachers.

Wow!! Im so happy I listened to my gut. I went to CDI back in 2004. Had such a great experience then that when I was looking to retrain in a different field I went straight to CDI. At first something didn't feel right, but I ignored it as I had so much going on in my life so thought its just me. As time went on I really started to feel and see the cracks (no show/late for appt, computers that didn't work for my testing, misinformation about my application, etc. Thank goodness I wasn't enrolled yet, I was just doing the testing, interview, and some planning. They were trying to push me into enrollment within 3 weeks. When I told them that was too soon they said "are you will to just throw it all away, and give up your opportunity because of the start date" that was more then red lights, and alarms. I couldn't understand how they could have possibly said something so callous, insensitive, and cruel without even considering, or appreciating the other side of the coin. I spoke my mind in return and blocked them from all my sources of contact.

How is it possible that they are still in business after numerous complaints? They at least should be ordered to immediately stop offering their programs and eventually put them behind the bars.

This is true guys. My friend took the Pharmacy assistant course there and she told me that at the end of the program they told her that she suddenly owes them $1500 to graduate and that she wouldn't get her certificate if she didn’t pay that amount. I was in disbelief when she told me that because I also took the same course at a public college and my tuition was half hers and didn’t have any problems at all. I guess the only difference is that I had to take a bunch of pre requisites to get into the program where as for private colleges like CDI, all they want is your money and they omit all the pre courses! So be careful of any private colleges. Sprotshaw is one of them too

This is not the only school that does this. I paid for a medical/dental assistant course. Couldn't get a job and 7 years later still paying the student loans back for something I got no credit for. The school shut down a few years ago. Completely ridiculous I feel robbed.

They told me I could study at my own pace becuase I was working a full time job and ended up kicking me out because I couldnt make some of my classes. They have no problem taking your money and will use any exuse to give you the boot and make room for another student. I lost thousands of dollars becuase of CDI. I hope they go out of business.

About 9 years ago I was working for CDI College as their Regional Auditor for the Alberta region and I saw first hand all this issues raised here as I went through all their campuses reviewing all their operations and activates. in since 2014 I joined the Government of Alberta Indigenous Relations as Grant Auditor. Since working for the GOA, I have in two separate occasions responded to Job openings in Advance Education of the Government of Alberta to handle the role of auditing and reviewing the operations and activities of all the Private Vocational Institutions in Alberta. I clearly made it know to the hiring panel the ills that the deceptions taking place in some of those institutions and how the Government department responsible for monitoring and approving the activities of the Privately owned institutions are failing in their responsibility and how I was willing and have first hand knowledge of what is going on there (in particular CDI and Reeves Colleges in Alberta). To my surprise the hiring manager asked me if I was intending to have them all closed down. Needless to say I wasn't hired for the job and I guess because I told them the Government Department drop the ball here.

Omg...I had this same feeling...when I went to visit the CDI college ...and I took the wise decision not to join this college, they kept calling me to join the college...so if a college or a University (so called) is calling you to join them , always see it as a red flag and steer clear of them 🚩

I had a similar issue with Sprott Shaw, another business school. The teachers weren't actually teachers, the students weren't taught the basics of how to use a computer, and I was required by the teachers to stop what I was doing to help the other students because I knew how to use a computer and how to save to disk. If I didn't help the other students, I was going to be ejected from the program. I did help, and still got kicked out. This was about 1998. The real irony? Most of the students were at least 15 to 20 years older than I and were being "trained" through the welfare system's job program.

Good job guys. You are helping so many people.

When these places would advertise on tv in the middle of the day and my kids would say “is that a good school” I’d say “generally a good school doesn’t need to advertise. At a good school you’re trying to get them to accept you, not the other way around”

I am SO glad I got out when I did! I really wish I had the money to take them to court. I didn't even get into my program and I owe over $2000 dollars. The teacher was in his basement in a t-shirt. They only had certain office hours so if you needed help, they could take DAYS to reply. Anytime you needed to get ahold of someone it was a wild goose chase trying to get the answer. It seems like there was always someone new in the office. It felt like I never really spoke to the same person twice. I'm so glad I found this video. It all makes sense now! They shouldn't even be allowed to be a college. This is disgusting!

The same thing happened to me with Academy of Learning in Edmonton, Ab. Exactly the same. The same problems, issues, and compaints.

I'm so happy there doing this going undercover. I took office administrator for a year passed and got my diploma, but I was alone. The class online was horrible I had to do everything on my own it was horrible and if you had a question about anything for a subject you would be waiting a week to get that question there communication is poor. And now I'm finding a job, and it's so hard finding a job.

I worked in CDI college their Calgary call center as the same way Adam mentioned Assistant Director of admissions what a joke The fired me because I wasn’t able to perform the way they wanted to bring students for their business. It’s pure business not doing for anyone’s betterment. Should put a end of these kind of business, making people look like clowns #boycottcdicollege

Great journalism. Keep protecting Canadians!

unfortunately when a lot of people say things like "education is a scam", they are correct. this is but one example of many. and it shouldnt be this way.

I studied at Vancouver career college back then . I feel the exact same way . I urge people to do their due diligence and research about the school and the program first before signing anything .

I was looking for certifications offered from several schools, I called CDI ONCE just to inquire about prices, classes etc... They were ringing down my phone every other day , that was a red flag in itself because no other educational institution does this. It was like some sort of scammy behaviour. That is so sad :( I feel for the students who lost so much money for nothing. "Recruiters may do things that the company doesn't condone" LOL THEY HIRED THEM. this is ridiculous

I don’t understand how they can have schools. Where is the govt in this protection of students.

My wife studied there too, she noticed even students that were hardly attending classes were able to graduate. Aside from this, OJT that they promised never materialized since the students were left on their own to look for one. Their selling point was they were the sister company of VCC, thinking this was Vancouver Community College turned out as Vancouver Career College. Stay away from this school based on our first hand experienced.

I worked at ITT Tech here in the states for just a short period of time. People i worked with were great but the things that were going on behind doors with the higher ups was crazy. Place ended up closing 3-4 months after i started working there because of the Dept of Ed stopping the use of financial aid to go there. For profit colleges need to be highly regulated because there is way too many "students" being left behind

I almost went to CDI college but at the time it was too expensive and OSAP wouldn’t pay for it. After I couldn’t get OSAP to pay for it, the admissions person become very aggressive trying to get me to enroll and suggested I get a loan from the bank and that seemed fishy to me. Glad I didn’t go through it

i am astonished by the fact that such colleges are still thriving to this day in plain sight!! wake up governments

Amazing groundwork Travis and team. Looks like you are already making a difference based on a single comment I saw below.Well done

I am so glad this is being exposed. I tried to expose them when they did this to me. I have a huge student loan debt because of them. They mislead, the lie and they have no consideration for students! I am so glad this has come to light!

I am a student at CDI and unfortunately all of this is true. I go to the denturist program and CDI feels a lot more of a scam institution than an educational one. Very sad and depressing.... We as a class of 18 students were told that our program is accredited and once we graduate we can practice in the field. However, few months before our graduation we were shocked to know that this was a lie and that the program is not accredited...

Bravo Marketplace! Keep exposing crooks! Hope those students will get money back and CDI college should get a HUGE fine! By the way it's already game over for them as they are exposed on YT!

I went to another private college in Toronto before 2017 where someone was pushy trying to sell their programs to me right away. It felt like hypnosis when I was in the office with only one person discussing all available programs (don’t want to get into all details). They even gave me a test (Math 😄) to do during the first appointment when I wasn’t even prepared for it and simply came to discuss similar things that I hear in your video. I remember I didn’t find correct answers but suddenly they said that I passed the test… That appointment made me feel that I would never study in any private college in Canada.

WOW So glad I stumbled across this. I was in discussions with CDI college this week for the pharmacy assistant program.

I was scammed by these people, I'm still paying my loans. And I got depression from them for free yay

Finally those diploma mills are being caught

I’m actually in this school in Montreal and what i have to tell is that everything was said in this video is true and even worse. We literally teach ourselves, the professor is in the front if you have questions. They give books to learn for yourself and do the exercises after 2 weeks or so there’s an exam. It’s literally mind blowing how this can happen in such developed country like Canada.

I paid a 200.00 registration fee for the addictions and community worker program. I met with some intake guy. While discussing the cost, he told me it would be around 18K. I refused and said I couldn’t afford that. He then inquired if I would take the program if the fee was 10K. I immediately sensed something shady was going on when he was trying to haggle with me so I left. I requested a refund of my 200.00 registration. I never saw that cheque. I was lucky to get into a real Ontario college that cost significantly less and a much more valuable program .

Can we talk about VCAD? Like CDI, it's literally the same issue under the umbrella of the Eminata Group. I am a current online graphic design student of VCAD, and I've got 4 weeks left till graduation, I felt something was off 1.5/4 way in of the program and I couldn't drop out because I already fell in and HAVE to finish it, and let me tell you, it is real sketchy. A handful of staff (student coodinators) were turning over in such short terms and such. Man, we were promised laptops at the first day of class, however it never happened, and the laptops were late, 3-4 months into the program. Instructors seem to be just be restless and just overworked, minimal breaks. Also, VCAD experienced a data breach in the midst of November 2021, and it wasn't fun. If anything, I would like CBC to expand beyond CDI and cover the whole conundrum of the Eminata Group who is in control of all these career colleges, like VCAD.