There’s an apparent emerging Doug Ford doctrine in Ontario of short-term gain for long-term pain. It threatens to embed long-term structural costs for the province and its taxpayers.
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The recent decision by the Ontario government to drastically cut funds for legal aid will cause hardship for many low-income residents of Ontario and for refugees claimants.
An economist who researched and recommended free preschool child care in Ontario says there are multiple reasons why the province’s anticipated child care plan, based on tax credits, is flawed.
In calls for dramatic action to overhaul education in the name of improvement and efficiencies, we see the impact of global trends in privatization.
Here are some key factors of success to consider for western government taking on large projects – following these will help prevent the routine fails we often see.
An inclusive education researcher says the government’s consolation plan to boost school funding for autism services with no investment in early childhood education flies in the face of evidence.
The very short list of winners, and a growing list of losers, in Doug Ford’s Ontario does not bode well for the government’s political future – or the province.
An autism policy researcher and the mother of an affected child weighs in on the recent changes announced to the Ontario Autism Program.
Nine years in from its start date, full-day kindergarten is doing its job laying foundational learning for the future of individual children and the province at large.
A two-tier, for-profit health-care system will not end “hallway medicine” in Ontario or elsewhere; evidence from around the world shows that private payment increases wait times for the majority.
Ontario’s premier is drawing faulty parallels between Franco-Ontarians and Anglo-Quebecers when it comes to the services available to them in each province.
Low-income, less-educated parents with non-standard work schedules rely most on home child-care providers whose rules would be relaxed under proposed legislation.
Ontario’s new environment plan scores poorly on conservative ethos.
Christian right groups in Canada may not have the same resources as their American counterparts. They are, nonetheless, attracting supporters by borrowing some U.S. tactics.
To read English-Canadian media, you would think that Québec’s anglophones are under greater threat than the rest of the country’s minority language communities. Why the selective outrage?
Premier Doug Ford’s proposal to downgrade Ontario’s environmental watchdog is bad news for the environment, public health and safety, and evidence-based decision-making.
In order to address a warming planet over the medium and long-term, climate policy must be designed to be adaptable and indeed attractive to those across the political spectrum.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Conservative govenment is showing interventionist tendencies that undermine its free-market claims.
Ontario’s Conservative government, despite its “for the people” slogan, is repealing basic protections for the province’s most vulnerable workers.
Threats by two of Canada’s newest premiers to invoke the notwithstanding clause send a clear message to the federal Liberals: Ontario and Quebec do not play by the rules.
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Sessional Instructor, Political Science, University of Guelph
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Instructor, Legal Studies and Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University
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Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
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Professor of Political Science, Carleton University
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Associate Professor of Environment and Business, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University
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Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University, Canada
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Labour studies, Brock University
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Lecturer in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Researcher, Perlman Lab, Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education, University of Toronto
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Kerry McCuaig é um amigo do The Conversation.
Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
