Ontario Budget 2015: Throwing everything but infrastructure under the bus
If you just read the words, and didn't look at the numbers, Ontario's 2015 budget is a magical integration of the government's high-profile infrastructure and pension initiatives with the need to...
View ArticleOntario Budget 2015: Kicks the can on fixing Ontario's real problems
Budget 2015 may be big on rhetoric, but it doesn't deliver on the promises for strengthening public services that Premier Wynne was elected on.It is, instead, a procrastination budget; one that...
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Service cuts in Ontario's austerity budget spark protest
Friday, April 24, 2015 Public workers protest cuts in Ontario’s new austerity budget, which is in step with austerity agenda at the federal level. Hundreds of public sector union members rallied...
View ArticleBudgets ignore the housing disaster but so do advocacy groups
As Citizens for Public Justice wrote in their response to the federal budget this week: "Budgets are about choices. They let us know what our political leaders think is important."They also reveal to...
View ArticleA reality check on Ontario's proposed Hydro One sale
One of the strangest arguments advanced for the Ontario government's sell-off of revenue-generating assets is that Ontario has to do it because it can't borrow enough to support the province's...
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Housing disaster ignored by federal and provincial budgets
Both the federal and Ontario budget this week were lacklustre when it comes to housing, but so were the NGO and union responses.Budgets ignore the housing disaster but so do advocacy groups
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