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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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More Headaches than it’s Worth
Assessing Privatized and Semi-Privatized Waste Collection Download 327.59 KB 22 pages A review of international econometrics studies on the pros and cons of privatization and…
Making Ends Meet
Toronto’s 2015 Living Wage Download 2.02 MB 38 pages Two working parents with two children need to each earn a minimum of $18.52 an hour…
Fixing Ontario’s Revenue Problem
How to Restore Fiscal Capacity Download 886.86 KB16 pages In the lead up to the spring 2015 provincial budget, talk about ways to fix Ontario’s…
Getting the Design Right on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP)
Ontario Ministry of Finance consultation, February 13, 2015 Download 859.59 KB7 pages The Ontario government has been consulting on how to design the province’s proposed…
Harris-Era Hangovers
Toronto School Trustees’ Inherited Funding Shortfall Download 1.13 MB38 pages Controversy has been swirling around the Toronto District School Board and the province has been…
Toronto’s Taxing Question
Options to Improve the City’s Revenue Health Download 459 KB18 pages This study finds the City of Toronto hasn’t been using all of the tax…
Under Pressure
How Public Policy is Constraining Municipalities Download 703.34 KB31 pages This paper examines the full weight of neoliberal policies on Ontario municipalities and calls for…
Calculating a Living Wage for the Waterloo Region
Download 566.15 KB 22 pages A Waterloo region family of four with two working parents needs to earn $16 an hour to make ends meet.…
Which Pays Better: Public or Private Sector Jobs?
Settling the Debate Download 563.89 KB13 pages This report provides an overview of public versus private sector pay in order to determine which one pays…
Short Circuited
Assessing the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party’s Energy Policy Download 244.17 KB15 pages Part of the Ontario Conservative Party’s “one million jobs” promise is based on…
The Case for a Stronger Fair Wage Policy in Ontario
Download 718.58 KB 47 pages This report analyzes Ontario’s fair wage policy, which has not been modernized since it was introduced in 1995. It draws…
A Growing Concern
Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap Download 709.56 KB35 pages Last year, the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario…
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