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  1. Ontario’s basic income unlikely to help people get ahead

    This spring, the Ontario government will launch a three-year “basic income” pilot program and a key question to consider is how the program will impact the willingness of recipients to work. While it is possible to create a basic income ...

  2. More compensation restraint would help ease Ontario’s budget troubles

    Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, April 9, 2015 Amid a gathering fiscal storm, the Ontario government will soon table its budget for the coming fiscal year and beyond. There’s a lot riding on getting things right. A recent study found that debt is ...

  3. How Compensation Spending Consumes Provincial Government Resources in Ontario

    This report measures the growth in provincial government compensation spending in Ontario and how such spending has consumed government resources from 2005/06 to 2013/14 (latest year of available data). Over the period, increases in compensation spending ...

  4. Ontario's minimum wage hike is evidence-free policy

    Appeared in the Huffington Post After several months of labour activists putting pressure on the Ontario government to increase the provincial minimum wage, Premier Kathleen Wynne finally succumbed and announced that she will increase it to $11 per hour ...