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The Ontario Alternative Budget was a project of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Ontario Alternative Budget Working Group was a coalition of labour, social action, community and church groups which have come together to develop budget alternatives for Ontario.
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The ‘Last Recession Spook’
A Very Curable Disease Download 132.15 KB5 pages Toronto-based social policy analyst John Stapleton teaches us a valuable history lesson with his new piece The…
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Putting Fairness Back Into Women’s Pay
The Case for Pay Equity in Ontario Download 307.89 KB 5 pages
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Ontario owes women workers $78.1 million in pay
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—Twenty years after Ontario introduced pay equity, a new study finds the practice is dying on the vine – starving…
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Response to the Ontario Budget 2007-8
A short summary of a budget that’s short on anything new Download 96.48 KB3 pages
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Ontario Alternative Budget 2007
No Time to Lose – An Action Blueprint for Ontario Download 2.07 MB64 pages Attachments Ontario Alternative Budget 2007: Budget in Brief
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Ontario Alternative Budget gives Liberals a failing grade, sets out plan to rebuild public services
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Four years after the McGuinty Liberals have been in office, Ontario is still living under the shadow of…
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Fourteen cents a day won’t build many homes
Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper #2 Download 150.05 KB6 pages
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Miserly 14 cents a day for affordable housing falls short of promise: Ontario study
TORONTO—Despite promises to do more, the Ontario government is spending less than half of what it spent on affordable housing in 2000, says an Ontario…
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A Spinner of Tales
Ontario’s Minister of Finance Prepares for His (Re-)Election Budget Download 110.85 KB8 pages
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Ontario’s finances in better shape than Liberals let on, says Ontario Alternative Budget
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—Ontario’s finances are in much better shape than Finance Minister Greg Sorbara claims, says an Ontario Alternative Budget (OAB) Technical…
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