“All sectors spent less than planned,” Financial Accountability Office says.

It bears repeating—properly funded public services do more to improve Ontarians' lives than deficit reduction.

For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally get around to taking action.

The province spends much more money on things that aren’t priorities. Supporting education workers should be high on the priority list.

Provincial revenues are up dramatically of late—Queen’s Park can afford to bargain fairly

Ontario’s deficit became a surplus last year. The Ford government couldn’t think of a single thing to spend it on

The brand of turbo-charged capitalism that we call “neoliberalism” arrived in North America on a rising tide of inflation.

If Doug Ford wants to make the case for more federal health funding, throwing away money is not the way to do it

All of us are trained from an early age to be big fans of growth. We want children to grow. We want flowers to grow. We want gardens and trees and crops to grow. Growth is good, that’s the idea.

A government that reflected women’s preferences would take Ontario in a different direction, if the polls are correct.

The Ontario government has tabled its election budget. Public services got short shrift.

For Ontario’s sake, we must do more