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The provincial election of June ended 15 years of Liberal electricity policy in Ontario. Anger over high electricity prices continued to be an election issue, contributing to the Liberal loss of power and official party status (reduced from 55 to 7 seats). The PCs have formed Government with 76 seats, while the NDP is official […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under asset backed commercial paper, electricity, energy, financial markets, fiscal policy, NAFTA, Ontario, Ontario election 2018, P3s, public infrastructure, regulation.
August 8th, 2018
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Last month I published a full-length article in the “The Monitor” magazine providing a “how we got here” analysis of the Ontario electricity sector and some options for the next Government.? Since then, two things have changed: first on May 31 two investigative journalists, Carolyn Jarvis and Brian Hill, wrote an excellent story for Global […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under big business, climate change, electricity, energy, Ontario, privatization, regulation.
June 6th, 2018
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In the context of Ontario’s upcoming June 7 election, I just finalized an article on the CCPA’s “Behind the Numbers” blog, exploring the fiscal plans of the three major political parties from a historical and comparative context. I concluded that while the Ontario election offers voters three distinct fiscal visions, it is also true that […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under fiscal policy, income distribution, Liberal Party policy, NDP, Ontario.
May 29th, 2018
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Two years ago I posted my first guest blog focused on income inequality, specifically how changes in Canada’s redistribution over the last three decades have increased after-tax income inequality, and how these changes compared to OECD trends. The figures and analysis in this post update the earlier blog, based on the most recent OECD data […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under Canada, capitalism, Europe, inequality, Nordics, OECD.
March 18th, 2018
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My first, second and third posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how policy and administrative decisions by different Liberal Governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated cost structure, leading to higher electricity prices. In anticipation of June 2018 elections, the Liberal Government recently implemented a costly and first-in-Canada financial scheme to […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under deregulations, economic risk, electricity, energy, Ontario, P3s, public services, regulation, Uncategorized.
November 19th, 2017
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In this second of a series of housing-related posts I analyze the income and geographic distribution of renter-occupied households in the City of Toronto. My first post focussed on affordability and inequality trends by analyzing time series (2001-16) data for Ontario by household income quintiles. As a complement, this blog studies the income and geographic […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under cities, GTA, homeless, housing, income, income distribution, inequality, poverty, StatCan, Toronto.
September 20th, 2017
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I dedicate this post to the memory of Bonnie Briggs, who died earlier this month, in honour of her lifelong and tireless work on housing and homeless issues in Toronto. In this first of a series of housing-related posts I analyze rental housing expenditures for low-income households in Ontario. Rent is the single largest expenditure […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under homeless, housing, income distribution, inequality, Ontario, regulation, Toronto.
August 22nd, 2017
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My January and April posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how decisions by different Ontario governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated cost structure, leading to higher electricity prices. Here I discuss the latest development, the Liberal Government of Ontario’s proposed financial framework for its “Fair Hydro Plan” (FHP). In election […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under asset backed commercial paper, Canada, electricity, energy, financial markets, Ontario, privatization, regulation.
May 22nd, 2017
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Soon after the 2015 federal election, Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau affirmed that Canada was back as a “compassionate and constructive voice in the world” after a decade of Conservative governments. One of the most important means by which any industrialized country interacts with the developing world is via the amount, composition and effectiveness of its […]
Posted by Edgardo Sepulveda under Canada, development, federal budget, fiscal federalism, fiscal policy, G-8, OECD, poverty, taxation, livescoreทีเด็ด
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May 3rd, 2017
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