Dueled

I'm accepting for now, just received an email back saying "Thank you for your email. You can accept the offer slightly past the deadline. However, please note that scholarships are in limited quantity and you risk losing it if you do not respond by the deadline. We strongly recommend accepting the offer and should you change your mind for any reason, you can simply contact the Graduate Studies Office (scsgrad@uottawa.ca) to inform them you'd like to revoke your acceptance. Most students chose this route as this at least secures their scholarship." so there's no need for an extension.

This is good to hear, I'll definitely do that! I'm going to do the above just to play it safe.

Awesome to hear that peoples' acceptances are rolling in! I really hope I get some form of response in the next day -- I have to accept or decline my offer from GSPIA by end of day on Thursday. I don't think I want to let that one slide whilst waiting on NPSIA and rely on an acceptance.