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Ontario Youth Can’t Win for Losing Five years after the global meltdown, Ontario’s youth employment levels remain perilously low. Ontario youth have been effectively left…

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The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections. It…

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA-Ontario) lays out a compromise solution to political gridlock over…

GTA and Hamilton Public Transit Expansion Revenue Options Download 575.68 KB38 pages This study lays out a compromise solution to political gridlock over how to…

By Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy All budgets are political in nature, but Ontario’s 2013 budget – tabled by a minority government with a new…

The report, 10 Ways To Close Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap, finds that women in Ontario still earn 28 per cent less than men – despite increased…

TORONTO – A new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA-Ontario) report challenges the Ontario government to take 10 steps to close the province’s persistent pay…

Download 416.87 KB26 pages This report finds that women in Ontario still earn 28 per cent less than men – despite increased levels of education…

Students go to university on a promise: get an education and the jobs will come. That worked for many students’ parents, but something shifted. The…

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT. TORONTO – Ontario’s experiment with austerity in 2012 is contributing to an economic slowdown that demands a different…

Austerity’s Impact in Ontario Download 558.47 KB36 pages This report shows that Ontario hasn’t returned to pre-recession economic health. Austerity measures are compounding the problem,…
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