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Sheila Block
Persistent Inequality
Ontario’s Colour-coded Labour Market Download 656.56 KB 23 pages Ontario’s labour market shows stubborn patterns of employment and income inequality along racial and gender lines. This…
Ontario Economic Update: Financial fearmongering act II
Ontario’s economic update, released today, is Act II of a financial fearmongering stunt. Act I was the line-by-line review that contends public expenditures have grown…
Forced perspective: Fedeli’s framing sets the stage for deep cuts
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Are middle class tax promises a false hope?
Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford has proposed a $2.8-billion “middle class tax cut,” despite the fact the province is facing a deficit.Promoting tax cuts as…
Nurses’ work deserves attention during the Ontario election
This winter, a bad flu season that resulted in overcrowded emergency rooms shone a light on the need for a reinvestment in Ontario’s health care…
Tax cuts won’t cut it: Low-wage workers need a raise
A month ago, PC Leader Doug Ford floated a trial balloon: he would freeze Ontario’s minimum wage at $14 but take everyone making less…
Ontario’s high-stakes election campaign: parties going “all in”
Back in March, the Ontario Liberals put all of their chips on the table with their election-style provincial budget. They promised free child care, more…
$15 minimum wage or a tax cut: what are the trade-offs?
In the lead up to the June 7th election in Ontario, the minimum wage continues to be a hot button issue.
Racialized Canadians continue to face barriers to decent work
Census data released by Statistics Canada today show us that racialized Canadians are more than willing to work but the barriers to finding employment that…
Canada’s population is changing but income inequality remains a problem
New 2016 Census data shows an increasing share of the population comprises racialized, immigrant, and Indigenous people in Canada but the income gap between them…
They huff and they puff: More overblown claims about a $15 minimum wage
Another week, another business lobby report that exaggerates the potential negative impact of Ontario’s plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2019. Actually,…
Fraser Institute cries wolf over Ontario’s $15 minimum wage
By Sheila Block and Michal Rozworski Each week, it seems, we see a new report that exaggerates the potential negative impact of Ontario’s plan to…
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