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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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OnPolicy: Ontario’s Working Poor
Summer 2016 Download 9.79 MB 60 pages This issue of OnPolicy gives you a road map to working poverty in nine Ontario cities: Ottawa, London, Toronto,…
Ottawa’s chance to provide low-income transit passes
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Ontario’s new climate plan needs bigger sticks, more carrots
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Gains in construction pull up Ontario employment in May
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Toronto’s City Budget 2017
No More Rabbits to Pull out of the Hat In her presentation to the Executive Committee at Toronto City Council, CCPA-Ontario Senior Economist Sheila Block…
Bill 186: The ORPP will strengthen retirement security
In her presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy, CCPA-Ontario Senior Economist Sheila Block details the importance of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan in…
Bill 186: How to strengthen the ORPP
In his presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy, CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie recommends ways to strengthen the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. Attachments…
Ontario’s Social Assistance Poverty Gap
Download 542.78 KB20 pages This report drills down on one key but complex policy file that is essential to the province meeting its commitment to reduce…
Social assistance poverty gap skyrocketed: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – The poverty gap for single individuals who qualify for Ontario Works or its equivalent has increased by almost…
Ontario job market remains on pause
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Gender pay gap shadows women all along income ladder: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – The average pay gap between men and women stands at 29.4 per cent in Ontario —…
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