Why is Ontario public school enrolment dropping? Inside the trend setting off alarm bells for school boards

Ontario public school enrolment is declining as parents look for alternatives. Read why families are leaving and how boards face financial strain.

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Doing more with less: 10 facts about school funding in Ontario | CCPA

The numbers show that schools and educators in Ontario are being asked to do more with less, and students are paying the price

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How can labour unions show solidarity with tenant organizations in Canada? | CCPA

One Picket Line, volume 2: A guide for concrete movement solidarity between workers and tenants

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Landlords in the House: Advocates see a bias in Parliament against renters - National | Globalnews.ca

A Global News analysis of the financial disclosures of MPs as well as questions to a select number of politicians has found that every person in Carney's ministry is a homeowner.

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Why are Ontario social and community service workers striking? | CCPA

OPSEU workers are dealing with more work, less funding, and lower wages. So they're fighting back

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Ontario is putting up to $178 million into a stalled Toronto rental project. Is it a good investment or ‘bailout’?

The province is funding the investment for the Scarborough project through the Build Ontario Fund, a Crown agency whose mandate is to invest in infrastructure that makes a profit.

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Ricardo Tranjan: We called these essential workers heroes. Now they are striking for the basics

A few years ago we hailed them as heroes. Now workers across the country are striking for better deals, conditions

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Ontario school funding shortfall continues to grow, reaching $6.4 billion since 2018 | CCPA

Chronic underfunding, not financial mismanagement, is the problem in Ontario schools. Year after year they are asked to do more with less.

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Student Debt:  A key driver of financial insecurity across Canada  | CCPA

Despite all the talk of nation building and generational investments, governments are failing to invest in the most important factors of production: labour.

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Ontario’s HST Rebate on New Homes: A Bail Out in Disguise | CCPA

The federal and provincial governments are engaged in a massive tax giveaway to the people that broke the housing market

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Spring economic update wraps up old ideas as new projects | CCPA

Empowered with a majority government and new resource revenue, the feds are doing more of the same

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Cuts at Global Affairs Canada marks an 'end of Pearson's dream,' report says

Budget cuts at GAC could "shift Canada's foreign policy focus away from peacekeeping and development to self-interested trade and defence."

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Ontario is underfunding public health care—and private health care is the beneficiary - CCPA

$3 billion dollar funding gap drives privatization and downloads costs onto Ontarians

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Kicking away the ladder: The true cost of changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program - CCPA

Changes to OSAP will drastically reduce access to post-secondary education in Ontario and force more students to take on a lot more debt

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Ricardo Tranjan: Doug Ford’s OSAP changes are egregious. But reversing them would only get us so far

Opposing the cuts is important, but Ontario needs free post-secondary education

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Ontario students need smaller classes, not another EQAO review - CCPA

Instead of chasing explanations for low test scores the government should reduce and cap class sizes in Ontario

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Droits de scolarité : le coût des études au Canada

Le premier ministre de l’Ontario, Doug Ford, défend le dégel des droits de scolarité, même s’ils dépassent déjà ceux du Québec et de la Colombie-Britannique.

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Pourquoi le Yukon a le taux de pauvreté infantile le plus bas? | OHdio | Radio-Canada

Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Phare Ouest : Pourquoi le Yukon a le taux de pauvreté infantile le plus bas?

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Ontario government shows up late and brings little to post-secondary education crisis - CCPA

Ontario is spending less on education than in 2018, despite "historical" new funding from the provincial government.

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BC residents have shrinking access to family doctors, despite more doctors - CCPA

Primary care access is declining in BC. With a new provincial budget on the way, how has spending on doctors affected it?

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The numbers don’t lie: The housing crisis is not caused by a supply shortage - CCPA

Financialization, not demographics, caused the cost of housing to explode

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In Ontario, it’s a time of plenty for private health care while public hospitals starve - CCPA

Ontario public hospitals face large deficits even as the provincial government doles out more cash to for-profit providers.

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Donald Trump wants to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes. Should Canada do the same?

The federal NDP says it could help but it needs to focus on rental housing, blaming corporations and real-estate investment trusts or REITs for purchasing low-cost units, evicting tenants for renovati...

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Public Utilities Board approves 4 per cent rate hike, higher than Manitoba Hydro requested

The Public Utilities Board said it had no choice but to approve a higher general rate increase than Manitoba Hydro had requested because the Crown utility is in a financial bind thanks to prolonged dr...

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