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Student debt: A key driver of financial insecurity across Canada
Despite all the talk of nation building and generational investments, governments are failing to invest in the most important factors of production: labour.
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Ontario’s HST rebate on new homes: A bail out in disguise
The federal and provincial governments are engaged in a massive tax giveaway to the people that broke the housing market
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Debt by design: OSAP and the political economy of student aid in Canada
Ontario’s attacks on OSAP are part of a broader restructuring of public post-secondary
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Ontario is getting ready to hand Uber a massive gift
By hitching the “Northlander Rideshare Pilot” to the Northlander train revival, the province is engaged in a major giveaway to the U.S. taxi app
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Ontario is underfunding public health care—and private health care is the beneficiary
$3 billion dollar funding gap drives privatization and downloads costs onto Ontarians
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The 2026 Ontario budget neglects core provincial responsibilities
The 2026 budget fails to address the core responsibilities of provincial governments.
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Les élèves de l’Ontario ont besoin de classes plus petites et non pas d’un autre examen de l’OQRE
Les tests ne sont pas le problème. Il est temps de réduire et de plafonner la taille des classes.
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Kicking away the ladder: The true cost of changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program
Changes to OSAP will drastically reduce access to post-secondary education in Ontario and force more students to take on a lot more debt
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Ontario students need smaller classes, not another EQAO review
Instead of chasing explanations for low test scores the government should reduce and cap class sizes in Ontario
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Ontario government shows up late and brings little to post-secondary education crisis
Ontario is spending less on education than in 2018, despite “historical” new funding from the provincial government.
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In Ontario, it’s a time of plenty for private health care while public hospitals starve
Ontario public hospitals face large deficits even as the provincial government doles out more cash to for-profit providers.
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Creating safe and inclusive schools in Ontario
The education system in Canada is a multi-faceted institution consisting of public, private, religious and independent forms of schooling. Each province adheres to their own…
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