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Education funding gap hurting students at risk—study
TORONTO—Ontario’s at-risk students are slipping through the cracks in the $1.2 billion funding gap caused by the province’s education funding formula, says a study released today by the Canadian...
May 1, 2007 | Ontario Office
Ontario Alternative Budget gives Liberals a failing grade, sets out plan to rebuild public services
TORONTO—Four years after the McGuinty Liberals have been in office, Ontario is still living under the shadow of the Mike Harris/Ernie Eves government, says the 2007 Ontario Alternative Budget (OAB...
March 5, 2007 | Ontario Office
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 Alternative Budget study released today by...
February 13, 2007 | Ontario Office
Ontario’s finances in better shape than Liberals let on, says Ontario Alternative Budget
TORONTO—Ontario’s finances are in much better shape than Finance Minister Greg Sorbara claims, says an Ontario Alternative Budget (OAB) Technical Paper released today by the Canadian Centre for...
November 15, 2006 | Ontario Office
Not all school boards benefiting from increased spending—report
TORONTO—A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that, despite the province’s $600 million increase in education spending, 18 of Ontario’s 72 school boards—27.8...
October 3, 2006 | Ontario Office
Fundamental change needed to save Ontario’s forestry-dependent communities—report
OTTAWA—The Ontario government must implement far-reaching forestry and hydro reforms if it is truly serious about safeguarding Northern communities and thousands of woodworking jobs, says a new...
June 29, 2006 | BC Office, Ontario Office
We can't afford poverty
TORONTO— The Ontario Alternative Budget for 2006 released today by the Alternative Budget Working Group of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives takes on poverty and income inequality as its...
April 12, 2006 | Ontario Office
Liberals’ patchwork reinvestment strategy leaves public services underfunded, says Ontario Alternative Budget
TORONTO— According to an Ontario Alternative Budget technical paper released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the McGuinty government’s current fiscal plan would result in...
March 16, 2006 | Ontario Office
Budget timing opens the door to manipulation, warns Ontario Alternative Budget
TORONTO—Despite all of Dalton McGuinty’s talk about taking politics out of budgets, the McGuinty government’s announcement to bring down its budget on March 23—a full two months earlier than last...
March 9, 2006 | Ontario Office
McGuinty government has no one else to blame for public services gap
TORONTO—Ontario’s finances are in substantially better shape than the McGuinty government’s constant cries of poverty would suggest, says a new study from the Ontario Alternative Budget project of...
February 2, 2006 | Ontario Office

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