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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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Selling Off Toronto Hydro
Private Sector Gain, Consumer Pain Download 483.52 KB16 pages A proposal to partially sell off a long held public asset, Toronto Hydro, could turn the…
Basic Income
Rethinking Social Policy Download 450.69 KB 62 pages This compendium offers a wide range of considerations that any government or policy maker attempting to embed…
Nobody’s Business: Airbnb in Toronto
It’s supposed to be a “home sharing” platform, but a small percentage of hosts account for just under half of all Toronto Airbnb revenue, according…
OnPolicy: Ontario’s Working Poor
Summer 2016 Download 9.79 MB 60 pages This issue of OnPolicy gives you a road map to working poverty in nine Ontario cities: Ottawa, London, Toronto,…
Bill 186: How to strengthen the ORPP
In his presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy, CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie recommends ways to strengthen the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. Attachments…
Ontario’s Social Assistance Poverty Gap
Download 542.78 KB20 pages This report drills down on one key but complex policy file that is essential to the province meeting its commitment to reduce…
No Crisis on the Horizon
Ontario Debt, 1990-2015 Download 490.81 KB22 pages At $284.6 billion in 2014-15, Ontario’s debt has caused some concern, but the raw debt number alone indicates…
Raising the Bar
Revisiting the Benchmark Question for Ontario’s Minimum Wage Download 576.71 KB28 pages The Ontario government has also been under steady pressure to raise the minimum…
Calculating a Living Wage for Perth and Huron Counties
Download 816.2 KB 34 pages The Social Research Planning Council, a Divison of United Way Perth-Huron, collaborated with the CCPA-ON to produce this report detailing…
What, Me Worry?
Income Risks for Retiring Canadians Download 1.26 MB26 pages Two recent and widely quoted studies strongly suggest that no major policy changes are needed to…
OnPolicy: The long shadow of Mike Harris
Spring 2015 Download 6.63 MB50 pages Twenty years ago, the Mike Harris “Common Sense Revolution” stormed Ontario, waging a fight with the poor, with unions,…
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