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Fall update: Ontario’s projected deficit is an accounting fiction
Ontario government is squirreling money away while public services suffer
A rising tide does not lift all boats
Ontario’s labour market saw dramatic shifts over the past few years. How did those changes affect racialized workers?
Toronto’s new mayor’s $1 billion problem
Toronto’s new progressive mayor Olivia Chow will be facing an immediate $1 billion deficit—and there’s no simple solution.
Balanced budget leaves Ontarians behind
It bears repeating—properly funded public services do more to improve Ontarians’ lives than deficit reduction.
Ontario: Brutal underfunding punishes health and education
The government of Ontario is deliberately starving public services.
Budget 2023: What if Ontario aimed to be average?
Imagine how much better things could be if Ontario just aimed to be average, rather than low, on public spending
Queen’s Park is richer than it admits
The Ontario government is underestimating 2022-23 revenues by a whopping $10 billion. Rather than recording a predicted deficit, the province is on track to be in surplus territory by the spring.
Cars vs. care: comparing the spending priorities of the Ontario parties
The race is on for the June 2 Ontario election. Question is: which issue will voters care more about—cars or care services?
Ontario health spending will be too low if the 2022 budget is passed
Provincial underfunding of health care has consequences for all Ontarians
In March 2020, our world stopped: Seven charts to understand two years of COVID-19
The pandemic, through the eyes of our researchers
Un pas en avant
Évaluation des répercussions sur le marché du travail de la hausse du salaire minimum en Ontario en 2018 Download 1.08 MB29 pages Ce rapport décrit…
One Step Forward
Assessing the labour market impacts of Ontario’s 2018 minimum wage increase Download 1.07 MB28 pages This report examines the impact of increasing Ontario’s minimum wage…
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