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No strings attached
As emergency rooms are overwhelmed, surgery wait times continue to lengthen, and under-resourced childrens’ hospitals face surges related to viral infections like COVID, the provincial…
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Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shutdown of large sections of the Ontario economy. In a few short months, total economic activity in…
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Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19
For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally get around to taking action.
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No strings attached
There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.
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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
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School bargaining: Down at Queen’s Park, $100 million is pocket change
The province spends much more money on things that aren’t priorities. Supporting education workers should be high on the priority list.
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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.
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Five things to know about Ontario’s strikebreaking law
The Ontario government just declared war on the constitutionally protected right to strike, using the notwithstanding clause.
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Flush with cash
In March 2022 we published a report predicting that most provinces would be in fiscal surplus territory by the end of the 2021–22 fiscal year…
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Flush with cash
This is a remarkable story of economic recovery from the depths of the COVID-19 lockdown impacts. The next chapter will be written by the provinces as they decide what to do with their unexpected budget surpluses.
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Ontario finances don’t justify attack on wages
Provincial revenues are up dramatically of late—Queen’s Park can afford to bargain fairly
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Educators are parents. Parents are workers. And facts are facts.
Ontario’s political rhetoric creates divisions where, in reality, none exist.
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