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Faster internet as slowly as possible: Ontario’s rural broadband plan
If you live in a city of any size, you might worry about whether you can afford fast Internet service. But you probably don’t worry…
Here’s a dime, get lost: Ontario’s message to universities and colleges
It’s one of the oldest plays in the right-wing playbook.
Bleeding the patient: tracking five years of Ontario revenue reductions
With Ontario’s 2024 pre-budget consultations well under way, it’s time to think hard about public services in this province—and how we fund them.
CCPA’s favourite graphs of 2023
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From every office – CCPA researchers picked their favourite graphs of the past year.
Ontario is dead last in program spending—again
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For every dollar per person spent on programs in other provinces, Ontario spent 75 cents
New CCPA report calls for doubling of provincial funding to Ontario universities
TORONTO — The government of Ontario should double its funding to public universities in the province, a new report from the Ontario office of the Canadian…
Back from the brink
Over the last three decades, no province in Canada has moved more aggressively, or more consistently, to cut public funding to universities than Ontario. Ontario’s…
Fall update: Ontario’s projected deficit is an accounting fiction
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Ontario government is squirreling money away while public services suffer
“Not broken, just underfunded”: for-profit care won’t reduce wait times, CCPA report says
TORONTO — The Ontario government’s plan to expand the use of for-profit corporations to provide surgeries and diagnostic procedures won’t reduce wait times and is…
“Not broken, just underfunded”: for-profit care won’t reduce wait times, CCPA report says
TORONTO — The Ontario government’s plan to expand the use of for-profit corporations to provide surgeries and diagnostic procedures won’t reduce wait times and is…
How much is $8.28 billion? Greenbelt giveaway is a gold mine
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With that kind of money, developers could buy 60,000 brand new Cadillacs — or 100 high-end private jets
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