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Saving the Green Economy
Ontario’s Green Energy Act and the WTO Download 416.21 KB28 pages This study examines the WTO ruling on Ontario’s Green Energy Act, its implications, and options…
Toronto-Centre: Ground Zero for Canada’s Income Inequality Debate
For the first time in Canadian history, an election is being waged on this question: Which political candidate do you trust to reduce income inequality?…
The Gap Between the Rich and the Rest of Us? We Can Close It.
Two candidates in an upcoming federal by-election have made income inequality the main topic in Toronto-Centre. The CCPA’s growing gap team created a short primer…
Heinz Plant Closure Throws Leamington into Economic Shock
After more than 100 years of business, Leamington’s Heinz plant is closing, throwing 740 people out of work and sending the community into economic shock.…
No matter how you slice it, Ontario’s minimum wage doesn’t measure up
It seems everywhere I turn people are talking income inequality. Whether it’s on the pages of the current Globe and Mail series, The Wealth Paradox, or…
Making Every Job a Good Job
A Benchmark for Setting Ontario’s Minimum Wage Download 390.72 KB 36 pages In the summer of 2013 — three years after the provincial government froze…
What Difference Would $14/hr Make?
Ontario’s minimum wage has been frozen for three years. Currently the Ontario government is reviewing how to set and regularly increase the minimum wage. This…
Middle class for sale
A leaked Ontario Progressive Conservative document reveals a deep disconnect between ideologically driven wedge politics and the realpolitik of Ontario’s struggling middle class. The document lays out…
Ontario youth joblessness a chronic problem: report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Ontario is becoming one of the toughest places in Canada for youth to land a job, says a new study…
The Young and the Jobless
Youth Unemployment in Ontario Download 434.21 KB 38 pages Five years after the global economic meltdown, youth employment levels remain significantly depressed, tracking much lower…
Infographic: The Young and the Jobless
Ontario Youth Can’t Win for Losing Five years after the global meltdown, Ontario’s youth employment levels remain perilously low. Ontario youth have been effectively left…
Maintaining Ignorance: The political economy of Ontario’s media
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