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Heinz Plant Closure Throws Leamington into Economic Shock
After more than 100 years of business, Leamington’s Heinz plant is closing, throwing 740 people out of work and sending the community into economic shock.…
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No matter how you slice it, Ontario’s minimum wage doesn’t measure up
It seems everywhere I turn people are talking income inequality. Whether it’s on the pages of the current Globe and Mail series, The Wealth Paradox, or…
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Only 6% of BC Ombudsperson’s recommendations for addressing crisis in seniors care implemented by provincial government: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A year and a half after the release of an exhaustive and damning report on the state…
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Making Every Job a Good Job
A Benchmark for Setting Ontario’s Minimum Wage Download 390.72 KB 36 pages In the summer of 2013 — three years after the provincial government froze…
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BC government’s non-response on seniors care
In 2012, the BC Ombudsperson made 140 recommendations to the Ministry of Health to improve seniors care by fixing BC’s home and community health care…
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What Difference Would $14/hr Make?
Ontario’s minimum wage has been frozen for three years. Currently the Ontario government is reviewing how to set and regularly increase the minimum wage. This…
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Balanced budget come hell or service cuts or asset fire sales
The Minister of Finance on Tuesday announced the fall update to the country’s finances. There was a surprise in the works for Canadians, instead of the $3.8…
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Middle class for sale
A leaked Ontario Progressive Conservative document reveals a deep disconnect between ideologically driven wedge politics and the realpolitik of Ontario’s struggling middle class. The document lays out…
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