I remember the excitement I felt when Ottawa’s long-awaited light rail train finally opened to the public. But what it promised and what it delivered turned out to be two very different realities. Why did this happen, and what does this mean for the future of Ottawa’s transit?

Have you taken the bus recently? Your answer says a lot about where you live, your income and more.

Public transit budgets deserve better than farebox recovery revenue.

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

The biggest bite will come out of health care.

Students are more than political “changemaker” talking points

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

Health care is rightly taking center stage during this pandemic election and much is at stake.

In fact, they would be the most severe cuts to health care that any province has implemented, ever.

The pandemic response is showing that undermining state planning capacity for four decades has resulted in states with low planning capacity. Who could have expected this?

Austerity during a time of economic crisis is more damaging than previously thought, still, Manitoba continues apace with its privatization agenda.