Obituary: Remembering Ken Battle, founder of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, and a pre-eminent social policy analyst and writer in Canada’s history, by Alan Broadbent maytree.com/publications...

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Report from @policyalternatives.bsky.social shows the “rental wage” — the hourly wage needed to make rent while working 40 hours a week and spending less than 30 per cent gross income on housing — was $33.62 per hour for a 1-br apartment in Toronto. #canlab www.cp24.com/local/toront...

“The problem is that the holes that were dug in the system twenty years ago have never been filled,” said Hugh Mackenzie, researcher on education funding in Ontario and contributing researcher to @policyalternatives.bsky.social. #onted thewalrus.ca/cuts-to-toro...

On a recent Pullback Podcast @ccpa-on.bsky.social director @RandyFRobinson joins @KristenPue + @KylaHewson to explain how deep provincial funding cuts to Ontario universities reduces research capacity and hollows out communities: www.pullback.org/episode-note... #onpoli @harbingermedia.bsky.social

"When it comes to attracting fans in Toronto, only one performer comes close to Taylor Swift: the Toronto Public Library." New @ccpa-on.bsky.social report lays out the case for more funding for the highest-circulation library system in North America: #topoli #onpoli monitormag.ca/reports/much...

My latest op-ed: A serious debate on how to make rent control effective while mitigating potential downsides would benefit tenants and the many sectors of the economy for whom high rents are bad for businesses. financialpost.com/real-estate/...