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1. B.C. minimum wage hike may actually hurt workers it’s designed to help

   Last week, the Horgan government raised British Columbia’s minimum wage to $14.60, up from $13.85—part of a multi-year plan to bring the wage floor to $15.20 per hour. Cumulatively, the plan will make for a substantial increase to the ...

2. York professor plumbs new low of public ‘discourse’

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, October 17, 2018 Recently, Dennis Raphael, a professor of health policy and management at York University in Toronto, penned an op-ed, which represents a low point for discourse about public policy in Canada. Raphael describes ...

3. In the minimum wage fight, Premier Ford has evidence on his side

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, October 12, 2018 At the start of the year, Ontario’s minimum wage increased from $11.40 to $14 per hour. The previous government led by Kathleen Wynne planned another increase to $15 on January 1, 2019. Premier Doug Ford’s new ...

4. Time to rethink using the minimum wage as an anti-poverty tool in Ontario

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, June 20, 2018 Former prime minister Kim Campbell once famously quipped that “an election is no time to discuss serious issues.” Unfortunately, this is often true, as exemplified by the lack of meaningful debate on minimum wage ...

5. Time to rethink minimum wage as an anti-poverty tool in Ontario

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, June 20, 2018 Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell once famously quipped that “an election is no time to discuss serious issues.” Unfortunately, this is often true, as exemplified by the lack of meaningful debate on minimum wage ...

6. Minimum wage hike wrong way to support single parents

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, May 30, 2018 In her opening statement in the final debate before Ontario’s general election, Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne stood by her government’s decisions with a new catchphrase—“sorry, not sorry.” She then listed policy ...

7. What to make of Ontario’s January job losses

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, February 14, 2018 Recently, Statistics Canada released its job data for January. The report showed bad news for Ontario, with 51,000 jobs lost. On social media, many were quick to note that the job losses happened alongside the ...

8. Will the next PC leader maintain Brown’s Wynne 2.0 platform?

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, January 31, 2018 It’s not yet clear who will lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario into the next election. The party first decided to hold a full-blown leadership race, but there’s been recent pushback from party ...

9. Brown mirrors Wynne on the minimum wage

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, December 13, 2017 Recently, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (PC) released its election platform. In many policy areas, the platform calls for only vary small variations on the course charted by Premier Wynne's ...

10. Ontario PC platform misses mark in several key policy areas

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, December 6, 2017 The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario recently released its election platform. Unfortunately, the platform implicitly calls for the continuation of many of the most economically-damaging elements of the ...