Ontario Office Updates

An op-ed by CCPA-Ontario Research Associate Jim Stanford was featured in today's Ottawa Citizen. The piece was based on Jim's report, Charts For Dummies, a detailed statistical review of the 13...
September 22, 2011 | Ontario Office
CCPA's Ontario office has released a detailed statistical review of the 13 statistical graphs contained in the Conservative changebook platform document which finds that not one of them conforms to...
September 13, 2011 | Ontario Office
A new CCPA study finds that over the past two decades, Ontario's system of financing higher education has become more regressive, exploiting already over-stretched families who want to help their...
August 30, 2011 | Ontario Office
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
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. Please see...
October 13, 2010 | National Office, Ontario Office
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 neighbourhoods...
October 6, 2010 | Ontario Office
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 work...
June 3, 2010 | Ontario Office
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
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 22, 2010 | Ontario Office
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 the Canadian Forces...
February 1, 2010 | National Office, Ontario Office
We hope you can join us on February 25th in Toronto for the inaugural David Lewis Lecture. We’re excited that acclaimed author Naomi Klein will be the speaker. She will speak on the timely issue of...
January 27, 2010 | National Office, Ontario Office
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
A new Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper, Close Encounters of the Thirties Kind, by social policy expert John Stapleton, provides a blow-by-blow account of the similarities between Ontario...
October 13, 2009 | Ontario Office