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The CCPA’s Ontario Office specializes in provincial and municipal issues. We deliver original, independent, peer-reviewed, non-partisan research.
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Ontario Budget 2013: Four More Years of Austerity
By Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy All budgets are political in nature, but Ontario’s 2013 budget – tabled by a minority government with a new…
Infographic: How to close the gender pay gap?
The report, 10 Ways To Close Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap, finds that women in Ontario still earn 28 per cent less than men – despite increased…
Repeat After Me: Ontario is not Greece
The Fraser Institute has a new report warning Ontario could become the next Greece or California because of the size of its debt. Of course…
It’s Time for an Equality Premier
Imagine if Ontario’s incoming Premier – lauded for breaking the inequality barrier on two counts – decided to parlay her victory into a post-austerity focus…
Quality assurance in Ontario
The traditional model of quality assurance, where professors and institutional bodies evaluate, approve and improve programs, has always existed in Ontario. However, the centralization and…
What if the minimum wage was a living wage?
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Ontario’s Tuition Problem
At a time when Ontario’s government is promising a transformation of the province’s postsecondary education system, it would be wise to focus on a problem it…
Infographic: Take a Hike!
Eduflation and the High Cost of Learning Which provincial governments are ensuring university education is more affordable for median and low-income families, and which governments…
Completing the job started by Mike Harris
The crowning irony of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth budget is that it completes the job of cutting government down to size started by the Mike…
Ontario Budget Emulates Drummond
Perhaps the most striking feature of today’s Ontario budget is how close it comes to last month’s Drummond report. Drummond’s preferred scenario for 2017-18 was $134.7 billion of provincial…
Debunking Drummond
Personal Income Tax $24.8 billion Canada Health Transfer $10.7 billion Equalization $ 2.2 billion Corporate Income Tax $ 8.9 billion Provincial Enterprises $ 4.5 billion…
Drummond, Deconstructed
In the Commission report that bears his name, and in all of his media appearances since its release, Banker Don Drummond has ably played the…
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