Ontario underspend nearly $600 million on social assistance in the last fiscal year. ...
Category: Taxes and Benefits
Ford says the other parties want to raise your taxes. Do they?
The NDP, Liberals and Greens say they won't raise taxes on low- or middle-income Ontarians. ...
Most Ontario families get more from provincial government than they put in: analysis
Ontario families earning less than $76,296 were "net beneficiaries" of provincial services and payments. ...
Ford draws on Patrick Brown to unveil “middle-class” tax cut for two million-plus Ontarians
The cut would chop the rate by 20 per cent for taxpayers in the second provincial income bracket, at a projected loss of $2.3 billion to the government. ...
Experts the PCs once cited now criticize funding gap in Tory platform
Kevin Page urges political leaders to be "frank with citizens on what is at stake." ...
Finance minister says foot-dragging by the feds on pot legalization could cost Ontarians
Provinces say they need months between enactment of legalization and start of sales, possibly making a July 1 start date a pipe dream. ...
All three Tory leadership candidates are now firmly anti-carbon tax
Mulroney and Elliott both shifted to a stronger critique of carbon pricing Thursday morning. ...
Explaining the $4.3 billion carbon tax problem in the PC platform
Once you remove the carbon tax the other People's Guarantee promises start to look less certain. ...
What cities, businesses and unions want for the 2018 budget
OPSEU president Smokey Thomas gets floral in his metaphors on the insidious creep of privatization, spreading its seed across sectors. ...
Demonstrators descend on Tim Hortons locations across the province
Politicians, labour leaders and business owners trade barbs over response to the minimum wage hike to $14. ...