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Ontario is introducing a new financial literacy curriculum for high schoolers. Here’s what they’ll learn
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
In Grade 7, 8 and 9, students can learn how to manage finances, how the stock market works or about foreign currency and exchange rates. In Grade 10, they will learn the “importance of financial management, including budgeting, paying bills on time, the value of using credit responsibly, and options to pay for postsecondary education,” as well as “planning and financial management to help meet career and life goals,” the ministry says…
Tags: Education, participation, youth
Posted in Education Policy Context | 50 Comments »
Reclaiming the public square in a time of rupture
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
… neoliberal economic policies and market changes have created a persistent and growing divide between Canada’s wealthiest and poorest households… [and] a considerable shrinking of the public space through successive laws enacted since 9/11… The scope of our advocacy must expand. It should focus on the rebuilding of resilient communities and the public good and challenge neoliberal modalities about the economy and its excessive income inequality.
Tags: featured, participation, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
As Canada’s K-shaped economic gap widens, democracy is key to fixing that. Here’s why
Friday, April 17th, 2026
A democracy can survive disagreement. It has a harder time surviving when a growing number of people feel they don’t belong in the same society at all… When an economy gives most power and stability to only a few people, it doesn’t just create inequality, it also weakens how people relate to each other in a democracy. Over time, that makes the country harder to govern, slower to adjust to change and more difficult to keep united.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living
Posted in Equality Debates | 5 Comments »
Doug Ford’s push for secrecy is putting the health of Ontarians at risk
Monday, April 13th, 2026
It’s Ontarians who bear the consequences when governments grant themselves the power to be unaccountable. It’s Ontarians who endure longer ER and surgical wait times. It’s Ontarians who are left wondering where their tax dollars have gone — as leaders secretly spend public funds… Here’s what Ontario should be doing: Legislate bans on FOI carve-outs so politicians cannot simply write themselves out of oversight… Secrecy breaks the basic social contract — not only of health care, but of democracy itself.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
Posted in Governance Debates | 8 Comments »
A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy
Saturday, March 28th, 2026
… Between [1999] and 2023, the top 10 per cent of wealthiest households in Canada have seen their net worth surge by 195 per cent. The bottom 10 per cent… has seen its wealth contract outright, by 43 per cent… We need to get a better grip on how wealth grows, who owns it, where it’s stored and where it’s hidden… And the potentially toxic social effects of such a disparity in possibility continue to fester.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
Posted in Equality Debates | No Comments »
Ontario budget adds $1.1B for home care
Saturday, March 28th, 2026
Housing with supports is a key issue in a province that will hit “super-aged” status this year, when roughly 20 per cent of its 16 million people will be 65 or older… the budget… shows that the government sees long-term care as a “vital part of the foundation that holds our communities together and protects the people who “live, work and receive care in homes across the province.”
Tags: budget, Health, Home Care, participation, Seniors
Posted in Child & Family Policy Context | No Comments »
Privacy commissioner challenges Doug Ford’s reasons for changing access-to-information rules
Friday, March 27th, 2026
Information and privacy commissioner Patricia Kosseim has filed a six-point rebuttal to Premier Doug Ford’s “various” reasons for exempting himself, his cabinet ministers and political aides from access-to-information laws… in a response to Ford’s suggestion that only the media and opposition parties use the laws, the commission said that in the 2024 FOI requests, “more than 95 per cent were submitted by “individuals, businesses, researchers, and community organizations.”
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
Posted in Governance Policy Context | 8 Comments »
New funding announcement brings some relief to universities, but still leaves Ontario at the bottom of the heap and increases student debt.
Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Ontario’s funding is entrenched in last place, so far behind that it would take more than a 45% increase to match the second-lowest funded province, Alberta. Increasing total university funding by of 13.5% per year for five years would bring per capita funding in Ontario to the national average… The data shows that there is record demand from Ontario secondary school students for an Ontario university education.
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction, participation, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
What’s the future of virtual health care in Ontario? Despite funding cutback, it may have taken root
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
“Physicians aren’t able to provide the same level of care at a 50 per cent reduced rate,” Cherniak says. Still, three years after Ontario’s cutback, virtual care is catching on… even without doctors: Ontario Health’s annual report from a year ago cites as a highlight that more than 31,800 patients “connected to nurse practitioners through regional virtual urgent care clinics, with only four per cent referred to emergency departments.”
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
Posted in Health Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Reduced Fees, Rising Waitlists: Early Lessons from Canada’s Childcare Plan
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
To strengthen the program’s impact, the authors recommend expanding licensed childcare spaces, particularly in underserved areas, improving wages and working conditions for early childhood educators, and introducing more flexible supports – such as an income-tested refundable tax credit – for families relying on non-subsidized care.
Tags: child care, participation, poverty, standard of living, women
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 29 Comments »
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