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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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$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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Canada’s labour market: It’s stronger than you think
Last week’s national jobs report may have included some shocking numbers but looking more closely at the data shows that the Canadian labour market has…
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Zero Credit: The rise of precarity on Ontario’s campuses
As if we needed more evidence of growing workforce precarity, the 2016 census recently pointed to the “broader shift from full-time, full-year employment to part-time,…
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12 arguments for the $15 minimum wage debate
Discussions about raising the minimum wage for workers often generate maximum rage from business. But is there any truth to the arguments and fear mongering?…
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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…
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Ontario PC convention: Will it shed light on Patrick Brown’s agenda?
In 2015 Patrick Brown won the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives (PC) on a promise of party renewal and provincial change, but since then he…
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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…
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Don’t bank on TD’s $15 minimum wage impact forecast
Business in skewed economic assessments of Ontario’s move to a $15 per hour minimum wage has been brisk this week.
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