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Ontario’s Growing Gap
Time for leadership Download 507.44 KB40 pages
Ontario’s income gap at all-time high
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Ontario’s after-tax income gap between the richest and poorest 10% of families raising children under 18 has reached…
Education funding gap hurting students at risk—study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Ontario’s at-risk students are slipping through the cracks in the $1.2 billion funding gap caused by the province’s…
Missing the Mark
How Ontario’s education funding formula is shortchanging students Download 254.69 KB 26 pages
Set minimum wages above poverty line: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Not a single province in Canada pays a minimum wage that lifts working Canadians out of poverty, concludes…
Response to the Ontario Budget 2007-8
A short summary of a budget that’s short on anything new Download 96.48 KB3 pages
Ontario Alternative Budget gives Liberals a failing grade, sets out plan to rebuild public services
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Four years after the McGuinty Liberals have been in office, Ontario is still living under the shadow of…
Ontario Alternative Budget 2007
No Time to Lose – An Action Blueprint for Ontario Download 2.07 MB64 pages Attachments Ontario Alternative Budget 2007: Budget in Brief
Fourteen cents a day won’t build many homes
Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper #2 Download 150.05 KB6 pages
Miserly 14 cents a day for affordable housing falls short of promise: Ontario study
TORONTO—Despite promises to do more, the Ontario government is spending less than half of what it spent on affordable housing in 2000, says an Ontario…
Minimum Wage
A series of fact sheets on the minimum wage Attachments Minimum Wage Fact Sheets
Raising the Minimum Wage in Ontario
Download 167.02 KB3 pages Attachments Minimum Wage Fact Sheets
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