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With Two Women Leaders, Can We Build A Gender Balanced Budget?

More than 40 years after the start of the second wave of feminism, women have clearly made gains in the labour market through much activism on the streets, Continue Reading…

Why We Need To Strengthen Toronto’s Fair Wage Policies

Read our submission to Executive Committee.  Tomorrow, City Council’s executive committee will be considering proposals to strengthen the City’s fair Continue Reading…

What’s the cost of cutting the land transfer tax by 10%?

Mayor Ford has asked city staff to provide a report to executive committee in early July on cutting the Municipal Land Transfer Tax by 10 percent. He stated Continue Reading…

Underlying Losses Frame 2013 City Budget

This year’s budget ended as it began – difficult to define and understand. It provided the Mayor and his allies with an opportunity to claim victory for Continue Reading…

Toronto’s 2013 budget: The Impact of Zero on City Services

City staff is recommending that Toronto City Councillors approve an operating budget that increases spending by less than 0.5 percent for the second year in a Continue Reading…

The Alternative Federal Budget: A comprehensive program to reduce poverty and address income inequality

The Alternative Federal Budget, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), provides a different vision from the austerity doctrine Continue Reading…

Studying income inequality and its links to the austerity program

This month, the federal Finance Committee will begin studying income inequality following up on a motion that was passed in Parliament last year.  The motion Continue Reading…

Small steps are good, but services, jobs and equality are best for all

This afternoon an agreement was reached on the Ontario budget. Three major changes have been made: the introduction of a temporary increase in taxes for Continue Reading…

Precarious work, health and income inequality

This morning, the Law Commission of Ontario released draft recommendations on how to reform the Employment Standards Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Continue Reading…

Ontario Budget 2012: Duncan chooses path that hurts the poorest Ontarians

In the lead up to the Ontario budget, the Wellesley Institute asked whether Minister Duncan would choose a road of fiscal prudence, or whether he would adopt Continue Reading…