Is the public really getting more bang for its buck?

If new revenues go to tax cuts, not public services, we will all pay the price

Remarks to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs regarding the 2022-23 Ontario budget on Jan. 19, 2022

If the provincial government needs more money—and it certainly does—then why has it been giving so much away?

The biggest bite will come out of health care.

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

The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the strong connections between health and broader social, economic and political circumstances. It's time for a well-being approach to governance that is capable of addressing these connections.

A dive into what the Bloc Québécois has promised ahead of the 44th Canadian election.

At no time in the last decade has an Ontario government underspent its annual targets by 6.6%.

A multi-billion dollar budgetary windfall is an opportunity to tackle some of our most pressing challenges.

Post-COVID budgets are built on cuts

Democracy is built on trust and trust is built on openness.

We are far less likely to recognize households living in poverty as a public health issue, societal crisis or economic problem that we should solve collectively.

The Saskatchewan government appears to have no appetite to enact and defend the types of cuts it made in 2017. Maybe those tropes are dead? Or maybe the pandemic is making the obvious impossible to completely ignore.

The pandemic has exposed the disastrous result of government cuts to vital investments, especially in health care and long-term care. Does the latest budget undo the damage?

What’s the true story about what's happening at Ontario’s schools during the pandemic? Ricardo Tranjan examines funding across the province, school board by school board.