Ontario Office Updates

Hudak charts a skewed course

An op-ed by CCPA-Ontario Research Associate Jim Stanford was featured in today's ...

September 22, 2011 | Ontario Office

Graphs in Conservative Changebook misleading

CCPA's Ontario office has released a detailed statistical review of the 13 statistical graphs contained in...

September 13, 2011 | Ontario Office

The impact of rising tuition fees on Ontario families

A new CCPA study finds that over the past two decades, Ontario's system of financing higher education has become...

August 30, 2011 | Ontario Office

Deficit mania: When politics trump economics

As Ontario leans into a provincial election year and inches toward a pre-election budget, CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shows how politically misguided it would be to bend to pressure to...

January 31, 2011 | Ontario Office

International best-selling author and inequality expert Richard Wilkinson to speak in Toronto

Join us December 10th in Toronto for an evening with Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone. The CCPA is pleased to co-sponsor this event....

October 13, 2010 | National Office, Ontario Office

Toronto's middle class is shrinking

A new report by Toronto Community Foundation shows the gap between low and high income neighbourhoods in Toronto is growing while the middle class is shrinking. In 1970, 66 per cent of...

October 6, 2010 | Ontario Office

How do race and gender factor into income inequality?

New analysis by CCPA Research Associate Sheila Block shows Ontarians from racialized backgrounds are far more likely to live in poverty, face barriers to finding a job, and receive less pay for...

June 2, 2010 | Ontario Office

Ontario budget analysis

The Ontario government tabled its budget today, putting deficit reduction ahead of jobs. The budget also penalizes social assistance recipients and threatens to burden postsecondary students with...

March 25, 2010 | Ontario Office

CCPA releases Ontario Alternative Budget

The CCPA Ontario office released its prescription for this year's provincial budget, calling on the Ontario government to make job creation -- not deficit reduction -- a top priority. It shows how...

March 21, 2010 | Ontario Office

Ottawa speaker series asks 'Will Canada be a UN Peacekeeper again?'

The Ottawa Out Front Speaker Series asks the question, “Will Canada be a UN Peacekeeper again?" We hope you can join us for a luncheon event featuring Professor Walter Dorn of...

February 1, 2010 | National Office, Ontario Office

Naomi Klein to speak on climate debt in Toronto Feb. 25

We hope you can join us on February 25th in Toronto for the inaugural David Lewis Lecture. ...

January 27, 2010 | National Office, Ontario Office

Ontario's school funding lags behind

A new CCPA report on education funding in Ontario by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie finds the province lags far behind most peer jurisdictions in North America. Forty-five U.S. states and...

November 5, 2009 | Ontario Office

Ontario’s recession looking eerily like the Great Depression

A new Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper, Close Encounters of the Thirties Kind, by social policy expert...

October 12, 2009 | Ontario Office

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