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Lowering Our Standards
The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections. It…
The answer to Toronto’s $2.5 billion transit question
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA-Ontario) lays out a compromise solution to political gridlock over…
Toronto’s $2.5 Billion Question
GTA and Hamilton Public Transit Expansion Revenue Options Download 575.68 KB38 pages This study lays out a compromise solution to political gridlock over how to…
Ontario Budget 2013: Four More Years of Austerity
By Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy All budgets are political in nature, but Ontario’s 2013 budget – tabled by a minority government with a new…
10 Ways To Close Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap
Download 416.87 KB26 pages This report finds that women in Ontario still earn 28 per cent less than men – despite increased levels of education…
Infographic: How to close the gender pay gap?
The report, 10 Ways To Close Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap, finds that women in Ontario still earn 28 per cent less than men – despite increased…
Close pay gap between men and women: report
TORONTO – A new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA-Ontario) report challenges the Ontario government to take 10 steps to close the province’s persistent pay…
Not your parents’ education: Ontario tuition fact sheet
Students go to university on a promise: get an education and the jobs will come. That worked for many students’ parents, but something shifted. The…
Austerity doing Ontario more harm than good: report
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT. TORONTO – Ontario’s experiment with austerity in 2012 is contributing to an economic slowdown that demands a different…
More Harm Than Good
Austerity’s Impact in Ontario Download 558.47 KB36 pages This report shows that Ontario hasn’t returned to pre-recession economic health. Austerity measures are compounding the problem,…
Repeat After Me: Ontario is not Greece
The Fraser Institute has a new report warning Ontario could become the next Greece or California because of the size of its debt. Of course…
It’s Time for an Equality Premier
Imagine if Ontario’s incoming Premier – lauded for breaking the inequality barrier on two counts – decided to parlay her victory into a post-austerity focus…
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