Comparing Municipal Finances in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area finds that the City of Toronto spent more than $4,000 per person in 2016—the most of any municipality in the region—even though the city did manage to reduce spending over the previous eight-year period. In fact, from 2009 to 2016, nine of the 26 municipalities in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area reduced spending, including Hamilton, Oshawa and Pickering.

How Albertans Continue to keep Federal Finances Afloat finds that the federal government’s deficit in 2017 would have reached a staggering $39 billion—instead of the $19 billion actually recorded—if not for the disproportionate net revenue contributions from Alberta. In fact, between 2014 and 2017, even at the depths of Alberta’s recession, the province sent Ottawa $92 billion more than it received in federal transfer payments and services. During the same period, Quebec received $71.9 billion more in federal transfers than it contributed to Ottawa.

Report Card on Ontario’s Secondary Schools, 2019 ranks 738 anglophone and francophone public and Catholic secondary schools (and a small number of independent and First Nations schools) on nine academic indicators derived from annual provincewide reading, writing and math tests.