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.

Ontario’s political rhetoric creates divisions where, in reality, none exist.

There is so much talk about housing insecurity in this country. Yet governments allow payday lenders to set up shop in neighbourhoods where high rents perpetuate financial insecurity.

A look at what the provincial party platforms do for renters

A strong public education system that allows all children to recover from these difficult years is possible

Our analysis of the 2022 federal budget

What the new agreement gets right—and where there's room to go bolder

Minimum wage workers could ill-afford the cost of these lost wages.

It is becoming increasingly clear that our 40-year nightmare is not over. It's up to us, argues Tranjan, to end it once and for all.

We dive into what the Green Party has promised ahead of the 44th Canadian election.

It's time to shift the housing debate.

We dive into what the Liberal Party has promised ahead of the 44th Canadian election.