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It’s not the carbon tax that’s driving up gas prices
The solution to high gasoline prices is to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels altogether
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Ontario’s rosy revenue picture isn’t helping public services
If new revenues go to tax cuts, not public services, we will all pay the price
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Finding the funding
Remarks to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs regarding the 2022-23 Ontario budget on Jan. 19, 2022
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Budget outlook: $5 billion in annual tax cuts weaken Ontario’s case for federal dollars
If the provincial government needs more money—and it certainly does—then why has it been giving so much away?
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The Saturday Debate: Is there a made-in-Canada solution to high inflation?
It’s 2022 and pandemic-weary Canadians are worried about inflation. In November, consumer prices were up 4.7 per cent compared to a year earlier, fuelled by…
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Unchecked inequality is driving child poverty
Take a guess: what year was Ontario richest? Was it 1945? 1967? 2002? The correct answer is 2019. That year, inflation-adjusted economic activity per person…
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Half a million Ontario children growing up in poverty, new report shows
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Half a million Ontario children are growing up in poverty, a new report from the Canadian Centre for…
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A $15 minimum wage: Workers paid a steep price for the three-year delay
Minimum wage workers could ill-afford the cost of these lost wages.
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COVID-19 didn’t kill neoliberalism; we must do it ourselves
Neoliberalism is a broad term used to describe a ruthless variant of economic thinking that weakens a country’s immune system, making its population vulnerable to…
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Election planning: Ontario looks to Nova Scotia
Today’s Throne Speech was not a change of course so much as a change of emphasis.
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