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Comparing fiscal platforms in the Ontario election
Heading into Ontario’s June 7 election, the three major political parties have made distinct expenditure promises and revenue announcements. Let’s look at these fiscal plans…
Ontario election 2018: Turning votes into seats
In Ontario’s first-past-the-post electoral system, it’s not just a matter of counting votes. Here are a few things to think about that may help determine…
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…
Ontario budget throws down the election gauntlet
In its waning days before a June election, with the opposition breathing down its neck, the Ontario government threw down the gauntlet with what is…
Course Correction
A Blueprint to Fix Ontario’s Education Funding Formula Download 386.28 KB17 pages Twenty years after the Mike Harris Conservative government implemented its education funding formula in…
Time for a course correction in Ontario school funding: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – Teachers and education workers are rallying behind a new blueprint to fix Ontario’s 20-year-old education funding…
Care and change: The messages driving Ontario’s 2018 election
Sixty-two times. That’s how many times the Government of Ontario drew upon the word “care” in a throne speech designed to claim its stake in…
$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.
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