Tag: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Working Women and the Growing Costs of Childcare

Brynne Moore Last week, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released ‘The Parent Trap’, a report outlining the discrepancies between childcare costs across Canada, indexed to women’s earnings. The report found that parents in Toronto are paying the highest monthly childcare costs of any city in Canada, averaging about $1676 per child — amounting to…

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Effect of Rising Tuition on Low to Middle Income Families

Shranna Jaggernath If you want a good middle class job, you need to go to university.  That’s what we’ve been told, and we listened.  This past August, the Council of Ontario Universities announced that a record number of 90,000 students had enrolled in Ontario universities for the fall, 2000 more than 2003 when OAC was…

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