The CCPA's Ontario Office specializes in provincial and municipal issues. We deliver original, independent, peer-reviewed, non-partisan research.
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Welcome to the Ontario Office
- CCPA-Ontario Director Trish Hennessy and senior economist Sheila Block unpack the first comprehensive survey of workers and users in the GTA's on-demand service economy in a new report.April 13, 2017 | Ontario OfficeAt CBC News, CCPA-Ontario director Trish Hennessy unpacks the phrase "sharing economy" and the importance of language in creating public policy.March 7, 2017 | Ontario OfficeCCPA senior economist Sheila Block spoke with CBC News about a new report co-written with CCPA senior economist David Macdonald about how to create a fairer hydro HST rebate program for Ontario.March 7, 2017 | Ontario Office
- July 20, 2017 | Ontario Office
Protecting Workers’ Rights in the On-Demand Service Economy
April 7, 2017 | Ontario OfficeA survey of workers and consumers in the Greater Toronto Area
March 2, 2017 | Ontario OfficeA Fairer Way to Lower Ontario Electricity Bills
Featured Publication
This issue of OnPolicy gives you a road map to working poverty in nine Ontario cities: Ottawa, London, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Kingston, Waterloo Region, Sudbury, Windsor and Hamilton. The Summer 2016 issue of OnPolicy also offers some solutions to the problems of working poverty, such as improving food security and providing dental benefits for the working poor, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, tackling precarity in the workplace and improving working conditions for low-wage work.
Funding Solutions
“Ontario needs a consistent, credible, progressive voice on policy issues at the provincial and municipal level. There’s too much at stake for the future of our cities, our schools, our health care, our jobs, our environment, and more. The CCPA-Ontario has already proven itself to be a powerful and effective voice. It is helping to build a better Ontario."
-Jim Stanford, former Vice-President/Treasurer, CCPA Members Council
Behind The Numbers
Featured Content
The Ontario Living Wage Network is a network of employers, employees, NGOs, non-profits, researchers, and proponents of decent work standards for all Ontario workers. Visit our website for updates on living wage initiatives across Ontario.
Five lessons from the failing fight against child poverty
Ontario vowed to reduce child poverty by 25 per cent between 2008 and 2013. It came nowhere close. What can we learn from that failure?
Making the case for a $15 minimum wage in Ontario
10 Reasons Stephen Harper should ignore his own economic advice
Overcoming the new Precariat: The future of work
Toronto could be $200 million richer