Ontario Office News Releases

"The Ontario Government's plan to spend $300 million on a tax credit for private schooling is just a fraction of the total of $2.3 billion cut from public education since Mike Harris was elected,"...
June 14, 2001 | Ontario Office
"The Mike Harris Government has its budget priorities all wrong", the Ontario Alternative Budget says. "Instead of pouring more and more money into pointless tax cuts, attacking public education and...
May 10, 2001 | Ontario Office
In its annual pre-budget analysis, the Ontario Alternative Budget Working Group has a simple message for the Harris Government: "Park the ideology and call off the dogs. Put the corporate tax cuts on...
May 7, 2001 | Ontario Office
TORONTO--Six years of Harris government housing policy, including massive social housing cuts and growing handouts to private developers, has been a dismal failure, according to a technical report...
May 2, 2001 | Ontario Office
TORONTO -- Despite claims by the Harris government to the contrary, health care spending is not out of control in Ontario, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives...
April 24, 2001 | Ontario Office
Toronto--The only way the Ontario government can avoid a budget deficit in 2001-02 is to suspend the implementation of further tax cuts. That's the conclusion of a study prepared for the Ontario...
April 9, 2001 | Ontario Office
OTTAWA—Le système de santé de l’Ontario est menacé par la privatisation insidieuse du financement et des soins, ainsi que par les compressions budgétaires, selon une nouvelle étude, Unsafe Practices...
November 13, 2000 | National Office, Ontario Office
OTTAWA--Ontario's health care system is under threat from creeping privatization and public spending cuts, according to a new study, Unsafe Practices, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
November 13, 2000 | National Office, Ontario Office