Premier Kathleen Wynne plans to increase Ontario’s minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next 18 months.
low-income
June 23, 2017
2:52PM
Most minimum wage earners in Ontario are not the primary or sole earner in their household.
May 10, 2017
8:47AM
In reality, 88 per cent of minimum wage earners in Canada do not live in low-income households.
April 29, 2015
3:00AM
November 28, 2013
2:00AM
Every year around this time theres a flurry of studies, reports and media stories about the state of poverty in Canada, especially child poverty. We are told that as many as one-seventh of Canada's kids live in poverty. And the accompanying descriptions of the predicament of those children paint a picture of hunger and of serious deprivation.