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Northern Ontario municipalities have increasingly been raising their residential municipal taxes and sewer/water charges.


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With a projected $4.3 billion deficit this year and relentlessly mounting debt, the Wynne government needs to better control spending to repair the damage to Ontario’s finances.

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The coal phase-out had no apparent effect on nitrogen oxide levels.

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In Canada, total government spending—more than 40 per cent of GDP—is much higher than empirical evidence shows to be optimal.


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One of the justifications for the rising rates is to promote environmental responsibility and water conservation.


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From 2010 to 2014, Canada’s resource-intensive provinces' per person GDP growth more than doubled growth in non-resource intensive provinces.

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Ontario’s net debt has approximately doubled over the last decade and now stands at roughly $300 billion—or $21,000 per Ontarian.


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Ontario cities like Brampton and Milton rank better than most of their peers in terms of regulation—and share some of Canada’s largest jumps in population.