Posts Tagged ‘budget’
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Slim pickings in course calendars
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
… between 2020 and 2024, Ontario’s population increased by 9.5 per cent, from 14.7 million to 16.1 million. Provincial funding for universities didn’t keep pace, increasing by just 6.7 per cent, from $4.2 billion to $4.6 billion, over that time period… “a student shouldn’t have to worry if the courses they need to fulfill their degree will be offered…”
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction
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Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
For the province’s universities, the tuition reduction and freeze meant $500 million in lost revenue as of 2019, the year after the policy was announced. By 2024, with the real value of those domestic tuition dollars declining due to inflation, the ongoing freeze was taking nearly $1 billion out of university budgets…
Tags: budget, Education, ideology
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A needed cut of Ontario’s school boards
Monday, September 15th, 2025
Vigorous reform would end the charade of off-loading parents’ concerns to increasingly powerless trustees, rather than the existing chain of command within the school system. Overhauling the outdated trustee model will make it much clearer to parents that the government is ultimately responsible for the education of their children.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, participation
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Mark Carney says he’ll make pharmacare deals with provinces, but won’t commit to expanding their coverage
Friday, September 12th, 2025
… “Ottawa has been dealing with a spate of new priorities since the beginning of the year, and [Dr. Eric Hoskins] understands why Carney is taking an “incremental” approach… the last thing anyone would have wanted is to create an even more patchwork program of diabetic medications and contraception, where you’ve got a handful of provinces and territories that have it, and others that don’t.”
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, women
Posted in Health Policy Context | 12 Comments »
The three fiscal taboos Canada can no longer afford
Saturday, September 6th, 2025
Federal health and social transfers have also long outlived their usefulness: where once conditional transfers might have been needed as a catalyst for national standards, today they are among the main obstacles to health care reform; Restoring the two points to the GST… would leave it no higher than it was 20 years ago, and far lower than in most countries with similar taxes; … those at the top paying more in tax, overall… on their stock options… capital gains… dividend tax credits
Tags: budget, economy, featured, tax
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Thousands of Ontario family doctors to get new compensation deal
Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
The updated model — called FHO+ — recognizes that practising comprehensive family medicine has changed in recent years, with administrative tasks taking up more of a doctor’s time. It will allow doctors to bill for clinical and administrative tasks, such as such as charting, reviewing test results and filling out forms… the FHO+ model opens additional spaces for doctors to join family health organizations. Both the OMA and the government say this will increase access to comprehensive primary care.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction
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Should back-to-school require parent fundraising? Ontario schools are woefully underfunded, and families pay the price
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Taking over boards can be seen as a distraction tactic as the government is asking them to meet growing needs with fewer resources. Instead of increasing funding, which is necessary and long overdue, the government is likely to cut costs in the short term by privatizing services, a trajectory researchers have documented for some time. These shifts to the private sector are shortsighted attempts to balance a budget that only serve to raise the taxpayer burden over time.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Home-care in Ontario can’t keep up — and it’s getting worse
Thursday, July 31st, 2025
… funding home-care is costly, but Ontario cannot afford the alternative. The average per-day cost of home-care is $103. That same per-day cost for long-term care is $201 and a staggering $730 for alternate level care. More importantly, home-care supports what 95 per cent of Ontarians say they want — to remain in their homes as they age.
Tags: budget, Home Care, privatization, Seniors, standard of living
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Why do we keep letting Canada’s ultrarich use tax havens to stash wealth?
Friday, July 25th, 2025
The Tax Justice Network has estimated that international tax abuse costs Canada about $15-billion in revenue every year. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, that’s enough to fund both our new dental care program and a single-payer universal national pharmacare program… Mr. Carney needs to end a near-universally loathed loophole that only the wealthiest people and largest corporations in Canada can take advantage of…
Tags: budget, economy, featured, standard of living, tax
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This confidential report reveals Ontario is spending millions to warehouse kids under Children’s Aid care in hotels and other unlicensed settings
Thursday, July 17th, 2025
Ontario is spending millions of dollars a year to warehouse vulnerable kids in hotels, shelters and other unlicensed settings that child welfare agencies are turning to amid a provincewide shortage of treatment options for kids with complex health needs… The use of these placements has soared over the past three years… putting unprecedented strain on children’s aid societies and leaving many kids in unstable or dangerous living arrangements where they are being contained rather than treated.
Tags: budget, child care, homelessness, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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