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5 reasons to be skeptical of Keep Ontario Working’s “risk” analysis of Bill 148 and $15 minimum wage
Keep Ontario Working (KOW), a coalition of business groups, has released its analysis of Bill 148, the legislation that will increase the minimum wage in…
How to regulate the rise of short-term rental platforms like Airbnb?
Download 179.17 KB13 pages Many Canadian cities are looking to regulate upstart online platform companies like Airbnb, which offer short-term rentals sometimes at the expense…
Toronto plans to regulate Airbnb: does it go far enough?
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Slow wage growth: why Canada needs a pay raise
The cost of living keeps going up, but new Statistics Canada data shows that slow earnings growth means pay raises aren’t keeping up with inflation.…
Ontario job watch: 2016 ends with a whimper
Canada may have ended 2016 with a surprising spurt in job growth last December, but Ontario was not so lucky.Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey ushered…
Ontario promises housing affordability: symbolic, not necessarily effective
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Popping the hood on Airbnb’s Toronto report: does it add up?
Number of units/listings Number of listings as a per cent of total rental units Number of listings as a per cent of total housing…
Nobody’s Business
Airbnb in Toronto Download 986.34 KB24 pages “Sharing economy” giants such as Airbnb — a multinational online short-term rental “home sharing” platform — have grown…
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…
Gains in construction pull up Ontario employment in May
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