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The CCPA’s Ontario Office specializes in provincial and municipal issues. We deliver original, independent, peer-reviewed, non-partisan research.
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Canada’s job numbers barely treading water
Job Growth by major industry, first 8 month of 2015 Industry Change since December 2014 Growing Utilities 2.70% Transportation and warehousing 2.80% Finance, insurance, real…
Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: Still missing a federal partner
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Two cheers for the details of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan
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Still waiting for Ontario’s manufacturing employment recovery
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Calculating a Living Wage for Perth and Huron Counties
Download 816.2 KB 34 pages The Social Research Planning Council, a Divison of United Way Perth-Huron, collaborated with the CCPA-ON to produce this report detailing…
Time for Ontario to allow municipalities to defend their tax base
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What, Me Worry?
Income Risks for Retiring Canadians Download 1.26 MB26 pages Two recent and widely quoted studies strongly suggest that no major policy changes are needed to…
OnPolicy: The long shadow of Mike Harris
Spring 2015 Download 6.63 MB50 pages Twenty years ago, the Mike Harris “Common Sense Revolution” stormed Ontario, waging a fight with the poor, with unions,…
Hennessy’s Index: June 2015
Ontario’s Precariat Hennessy’s Index is a listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other…
Low-wage work skyrocketing: Ontario study
TORONTO –The low-wage workforce in Ontario grew by 94 per cent over the past 17 years, vastly outstripping the growth in total employment which grew…
More Headaches than it’s Worth
Assessing Privatized and Semi-Privatized Waste Collection Download 327.59 KB 22 pages A review of international econometrics studies on the pros and cons of privatization and…
Milestones of the New Economy: One T4 slip at tax time
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