www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Essential social services cannot operate on low wages, goodwill and a smile. Austerity is a political choice. Workers are banding together to make their case' @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca @kjscott.bsky.social

“We can’t have housing be an extremely attractive investment and be affordable. We can’t square that circle,” said @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, Ontario research director and senior researcher with @policyalternatives.ca. #onpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... ‘The past few years have taken a widespread social, economic & emotional toll. But some are carrying that burden more than others…If you see them on a picket line, now you know why. And you can choose to support them’ @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

"La faim est le symptôme d’un problème plus vaste, celui des #inégalités. Et le logement aussi" @joblanchette.bsky.social recommande notamment La classe locataire de @ricardotranjan.bsky.social

Chronic underfunding, not financial mismanagement, is the problem in Ontario schools. Year after year they are asked to do more with less. By @ricardotranjan.bsky.social #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Despite all the talk of nation building and generational investments, the federal and provincial governments are failing to invest in the most important factors of production: labour.' @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

Ottawa and Queen's Park got together to bail out developers and prop up investors, and they called it "an HST rebate that will improve housing affordability." Will it really? @policyalternatives.ca in collaboration with @newhousingalt.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Empowered with a majority government and new resource revenue, the feds are doing more of the same. @policyalternatives.ca take on the Spring economic statement. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

New research out today showing the collapse of Canada's development assistance as featured in the @ottawacitizen.com this morning 🧵👇👇 @policyalternatives.ca ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Climate Justice Toronto & York South-Weston Tenant Union are joining forces. We are building a city-wide tenant union called Toronto Tenant Union. Join us: www.tenantunion.ca/convention

The Financial Accountability Office estimates that $6.4b in new spending is required in 2026-27 just to maintain 2024-25 service levels But budget 2026 only adds $3.4b in additional spending, which leaves the health care system short by $3b #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The 2026 Ontario budget neglects core provincial responsibilities. By @ricardotranjan.bsky.social and @alonghurst.bsky.social : Read more ➡ www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Full analysis: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘the data allow us to paint a portrait of the people most affected and illustrate the current burden of student debt.’ @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... ‘Opposing OSAP cuts is important, but we must demand more than a targeted financial assistance program. Ontario needs free post-secondary education. To get there, we need to talk taxes’ @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

A new @policyalternatives.ca analysis provides a breakdown of actual class sizes for grades 4 to 8 across Ontario - all boards and all schools. Nearly 1,100 classes have more than 30 students! Ontario students need class-size caps, not an EQAO review www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

"Ce qu'on est en train de faire ici, c'est de priver une partie de la population de l'accès à l'éducation dans un contexte où l'économie change, les technologies changent, on a des menaces de Donald Trump." @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...

Parmi les provinces et territoires, c’est le Yukon qui affiche le taux de pauvreté infantile le plus bas, avec 12 %, contre 18,3 % en moyenne au Canada. @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, explique pourquoi le taux est moins élevé au Yukon. ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

Ontario's post-secondary education plan announced today is better than nothing, but not much better than anything else. The claim that the plan represents a "historical investment" is, once again, rather disingenuous. Detailed analysis below. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

BC's new payment model for family doctors increased pay and drew more doctors to the province. But there's one problem—access to family doctors has actually declined. By @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

In this latest @policyalternatives.ca analysis, our external contributor @nikoblock.bsky.social challenges the trickle-down logic that progressives consistently oppose on every policy issue, except housing. Clear charts & easy-to-cite figures. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Ontario has the lowest per-capita hospital spending in the country. Expanding private care will worsen access. By @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

"Economist @ricardotranjan.bsky.social said it’s short-sighted to focus only on adding units without considering the impact of corporate ownership, comparing it to trickle-down economics." Corporations will purchase cheaper units, renovict tenants to maximize profits www.ipolitics.ca/2026/01/13/d...

ICYMI: Niall Harney, a senior researcher at @ccpamb.bsky.social, said Hydro rate increases are unavoidable. But he supports the Consumers Coalition’s call for a program to [help] low-income Manitobans. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Welcome to CCPA's Chartapolooza 2025. First up is @ccpa-on.bsky.social: The numbers behind #Ontario's school board takeovers: How can boards balance budgets when the funds are not there? Chec out the original post by @ricardotranjan.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

#Manitoba Hydro is under pressure to keep costs down as it begins a cycle of expansion. It must not push cost-cutting measures onto frontline staff. This only increase costs in the long term. By Niall Harney @ccpamb.bsky.social #canlab

Industrial transformation and renewal is essential if Canada wants to weather Trump’s economic warfare—but we cannot afford to be so haphazard with public funds. By @marclee.bsky.social and Stuart Trew @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

POD DROP! Marc Lee reports back on Elbows Up: A Practical Program for Canadian Sovereignty and the need for a generational investment in non-market housing. @policyalternatives.ca @marclee.bsky.social @ricardotranjan.bsky.social tiny.cc/c62w001 #canPoli #housing

La main-d’œuvre en enseignement prend de l’âge, mais les jeunes travailleuses et travailleurs se tiennent à l’écart des salles de classe. La situation peut et devrait changer. @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @carolinaaragao.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Durant l’année scolaire 2002-2003, 15,5 pour cent des enseignant-e-s en Ontario étaient dans la vingtaine. Vingt ans plus tard, ce pourcentage a chuté à 4,9 pour cent! www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Ontario urgently needs a teacher recruitment plan: the workforce is aging quickly, and younger workers appear uninterested in the profession. #onpoli #onted @ccpa-on.bsky.social full analysis and revealing charts: policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Governments should indeed be using their procurement powers to encourage local contracts. The new Buy Ontario Act falls short in important ways. By @noahfry.bsky.social #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

New from NHAs' blog: our analysis of Ontario's Bill 60. Bill 60, as proposed, will make it easier & faster to evict tenants. We explore 6 proposed changes, showing how they will erode tenants protections & further fuel Ontario's homelessness crisis 👇🧵 newhousingalternatives.ca/ontarios-bil...

The real message Ontario's fall economic statement delivered is that there is no help on the way for Ontario families and communities by @ricardotranjan.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

#Budget2025 analysis from @policyalternatives.ca: Major military spending will come at a huge cost to vital public programs and services. Which parties will support the minority government on this one? By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @hadrianmk.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

Bill 60 is a vicious, one-sided tenancy legislation. It will cause widespread suffering and loss of life. Anyone who stays neutral is complicit. In this @thestar.com article, I focus on why mayors should fight it. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Doug Ford and Mark Carney are making big moves on housing — but tenant groups and housing experts are raising an alarm. @ricardotranjan.bsky.social joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how the emerging policy heavily favours corporate landlords. breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...

Budgets are meant to be good news docs. This one will downplay all that will be lost with 15% cuts in most depts. We've scoured dept docs to identify programs likely to be "sunset" and the 52 depts likely to use this strategy @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇

www.thestar.com/real-estate/... “It’s a straightforward attack on tenant protections in Ontario,” said @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, political economist at the @policyalternatives.ca

I’m enormously proud of the fantastic work my colleagues at @policyalternatives.ca have done from coast to coast to coast—but we can’t do it without your support. Join us at policyalternatives.ca/solidarity

When introducing Bill 60, the Ontario government said the bill would unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of new units but the numbers don't add up by @ricardo_tranjan www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“Throughout Canadian history, private developers and landlords took advantage of various crises to enrich themselves. The property-owning class’s impetus to exploit the universal need for shelter is a constant.” @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

« Les gouvernements [doivent] reprendre l’initiative et avoir les moyens de construire plus de logements à l’écart du marché », a déclaré @ricardotranjan.bsky.social. @policyalternatives.ca pivot.quebec/2025/10/23/q...

Canada vowed to end #poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions. By Jasmine Ramze Rezaee and Leila Sarangi @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“...[W]e can expect wider employment gaps, wider pay gaps and the erosion of access to critical employment benefits,” explain @policyalternatives.ca senior economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social and senior researcher @kjscott.bsky.social #cdnpoli ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Join the CCPA for the annual Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Fundraising Brunch honouring The National Farmers Union in Manitoba. With keynote speaker, CCPA ED Peggy Nash. Nov.2 at 10 AM at Hotel Fort Garry in Winnipeg! www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

It was public--not private--enterprise that built this country: CNR, Ontario Hydro, the crown corporation that led to the Avro Arrow. Too bad we've forgotten. #cdnpoli #canlab www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not? Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor. My latest @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...