Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office

Ontario's Finance Minister just pulled a rabbit out of a hat to lower the province's deficit. 
Your CCPA-Ontario breaks it down for you.

Short-term gain for long-term pain: Ontario’s 2015 Fall Economic Statement



It isn’t easy being a Minister of Finance. Especially when your starting point is: we want to meet the zero deficit target we set 5 years ago, despite slower economic growth and slower growth in revenues than anticipated. But today Finance Minister Sousa pulled…
Read Sheila Block & Kaylie Tiessen's analysis at www.behindthenumbers.ca

"Ontario ended its five-year strategy with the same child poverty rate as when it began in 2008."


Kaylie Tiessen's latest Toronto Star oped on the lessons from Ontario's first poverty reduction strategy and what that means moving forward:   www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/11/27/five-lessons-from-the-failing-fight-against-child-poverty.html

City of Cambridge becomes first living wage municipality in Ontario
Why is it a historic decision? Trish Hennessy's take: www.behindthenumbers.ca
Strength in numbers: the CCPA-Ontario preps you for Ontario Budget 2016.
As part of our provincial budget roundtable series, the CCPA-Ontario is featuring a blog post every Tuesday to help lay out the fiscal challenges and name priorities for Ontario Budget 2016. Our first two posts, written by provincial budget roundtable participants Randy Robinson ( Ontario Public Service Employees Union ), Graeme Stewart, and Brynne Sinclair-Waters ( The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations ), focus on precarious work – in Ontario's universities:

Strengthening

the heart of Ontario universities: making sure every academic job is a good job


Precarious workers: Government can’t ignore its own

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