There is no province in Canada where workers can afford an apartment at minimum wage. The neighborhood-level data paints a dire picture of out-of-control rents.

Tenants across the country are feeling the pinch from landlords. Just how bad is it where you live?

Le programme idéologique dirigé contre l’éducation publique se déploie à plein régime — les compressions financières se conjuguant à des changements de structures de gouvernance.

The ideological agenda against public education is in high gear—with funding cuts coupled with structural governance changes.

We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.

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.

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