"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...

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is Canada’s leading progressive think tank. Let’s make a difference, together: Join us at policyalternatives.ca/Makeadifference

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...

Selon le chercheur principal au @policyalternatives.ca, @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, « le montant [de l'augmentation du salaire minimum] n’est ancré sur aucune mesure concrète de l’économie. Ce n’est pas axé sur le coût de la vie en Ontario ». ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/219...

Over two thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. And when the left neglects organizing in those suburbs, we give up on reversing the right-wing tide across Canada. Aniket Kali and I talked to the organizers in the GTA who are working to turn the tide:

Not engaging with the “most robust” and “most relevant” statistical analysis in Canada in recent years [on rent control] seems “disingenuous,” said senior @policyalternatives.ca economist and housing researcher @ricardotranjan.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

College workers play a crucial role in the education & training of young people. At a time youth unemployment is at a historical high, this strike has broad economic implications for Ontario. @CCPA_Ont's latest analysis #onted #onpoli #saveourcolleges www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Canada’s federal election in April saw Conservatives take over the suburbs. Here, writer and political economist @ricardotranjan.bsky.social considers what it will take for progressives to find their feet again: thewalrus.ca/conservatives-pa...

As Doug Ford bickers with #OntEd school board trustees over bubble gum, the govt's chronic underfunding of our schools is failing a growing number of students, says @policyalternatives.ca researcher @ricardotranjan.bsky.social. #OnPoli www.thestar.com/opinion/as-f...

Happy Labour Day! Jon Milton writes about how the Canadian government is addicted to strikebreaking. From the 1940s to today, modern Canadian labour relations has always included government strikebreaking—and workers defying those orders. www.policyalternatives.ca/.../a-brief-...

"The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing. Instead of using its taxing and spending powers to reverse this trend, the federal government is planning to indiscriminately cut government programs..." By @ricardotranjan.bsky.social #cdnpoli #inequality www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“The prime minister has gone from Captain Canada to Captain Cuts. And the damage will be deeply felt.” @ricardotranjan.bsky.social in today’s Star.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... ‘Selling dreams of the future while failing to act now is not just cynical but despicable when it concerns the senior population.’ @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

Join me and @neweconomics.bsky.social comrades, this Thursday, 11:00 am (ET), for a discussion on how to conduct research *for* rather than *about* tenant movements

"There is an alternative [to pipelines]. Manitoba must prioritize climate mitigation and resilience in its nation-building projects." Read more here from @ccpamb.bsky.social director Molly McCracken #mbpoli #greeneconomy www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Join CCPA Ontario's Senior Researcher @ricardotranjan.bsky.social:

Tenants are organising. How can researchers and think tanks support them? Join @neweconomics.bsky.social and @policyalternatives.ca on 26 June for a webinar on how to support housing justice movements in Canada and the UK. Link in post below 1/2

Join @neweconomics.bsky.social and @policyalternatives.ca @ricardotranjan.bsky.social for a Canada-UK housing justice dialogue, with contributions from the amazing @jryancollins.bsky.social 👇

Between 2019 and 2025, unemployment rates among teens aged 15 to 19 climbed from 14.9 per cent to 22.2 per cent. Nearly 1 in 4 teenagers in Ontario’s labour force is now unemployed. New analysis by my colleague @carolinaaragao.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Doug Ford is rolling out a classic three-act austerity agenda. It starts by cutting social spending, villainizing the poor and public workers to deflect blame, then opening the gates to corporate heroes who will purportedly save the day. My latest @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Le financement par étudiant [en Ontario] demeure sous les seuils de 2018-2019, creusant la dette des conseils scolaires. Ecrit par @ricardotranjan.bsky.social. @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

#onpoli gov released school funding numbers: + Per-student funding still below 2018-19 + Provincial funding gap grows to $6.35 bi + TDSB cumulative funding gap: $919M + OCDSB cumulative funding gap: $337M +TCDSB cumulative funding gap: 273M www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Le @frapru.bsky.social calcule quil faudrait doubler le nombre de logements sociaux sous diverses formes d’ici 15 ans pour sortir de la #crisedulogement et renforcer le filet social www.ledevoir.com/societe/8813... via @ledevoir.com #polqc

As a share of GDP, spending on post-secondary education is projected to decrease from 1.41 per cent in 2019 to 0.97 per cent in 2028 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

My latest for the Toronto Star Economic turmoil could have been the final push this government needed to finally address the structural underfunding of post-secondary education. Instead, they're cutting funding. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...