Selected Publications

Public Finance

“Taxes and Public Services” and “Benefits from Public Services” in Tax is not a four letter wordAlex Himelfarb and Jordan Himelfarb, editors, Wildred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario 2013
Toronto’s $2.5 Billion Question – GTA and Hamilton Public Transit Expansion Revenue Options, CCPA, May 23, 2013
Canada’s Infrastructure Gap – Where It Came From and Why It Will Cost So Much to Fix It, CCPA, January 24, 2013
Ontario’s Fiscal Reality – Cup Half Empty or Half Full?, CCPA, March 19, 2012
Platform Costing and the Politics of Fiscal Policy in Ontario, CCPA, September 28, 2011
Ontario’s Deficit Quandary – When Politics Trumps Economics, CCPA, January 31, 2011
Off target: Ontario budget misses the point on economic recovery – OAB 2010 Technical Paper, CCPA, March 25, 2010
Steering Ontario Out of Recession: A Plan of Action – OAB 2010 Technical Paper, CCPA March 22, 2010
Deficit Hysteria No Excuse to End Economic Stimulus, CCPA, March 2, 2010
Deficit Mania in Perspective – Ontario Budget 2010 Technical Paper, CCPA, February 25, 2010
Taxes and Public Services – Debate Over Taxes Dangerously One-Sided and Misleading, CCPA, February 1, 2010
Taxes and Public Services, CCPA, December 11, 2009
Time for an Adult Conversation About Taxes and Public Services, Hill Times, November 30, 2009
Can We Have an Adult Conversation About Taxes?, CCPA, October 27, 2009
l’Aubaine discrète du Canada – Les avantages tirés des services publics (w. Richard Shillington), CCPA, April 15, 2009
Canada’s Quiet Bargain – The Benefits of Public Spending, CCPA, April 15, 2009
Ontario Delivers a ‘Hit and Miss’ Budget, CCPA, March 27, 2009
Hit and Miss – Ontario’s 2009-10 Budget, March 26, 2009
Ontario Alternative Budget 2009 – No Choice But to Lead: Filling the Federal Budget Void, CCPA, March 9, 2009
Why Budget 2009 Leaves Canadians in the Cold, CCPA, January 28, 2009
Getting Past the Dreaded “D” Word – How Ontario Should Deal with Deficits, CCPA, December 1, 2008
Don’t Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste, CCPA, November 28, 2008
Ontario Budget 2008 – The Last of the East Budgets, CCPA, March 25, 2008
Ontario Pre-Budget Fiscal Update, CCPA, January 21, 2008
Response to the Ontario Budget 2007-08 – A Short Summary of a Budget That’s Short on Anything New, CCPA, March 22, 2007
A Spinner of Tales – Ontario’s Minister of Finance Prepares for His (Re)Election Budget, CCPA, November 15, 2006
For Finance Minister Flaherty – and for Bay Street – Tomorrow is Another Day, CCPA, November 8, 2006
Destination Unknown – The McGuinty Government Into the Home Stretch, CCPA, March 16, 2006
Ontario’s Fiscal Windfall – Setting Up Good News this Year, or Next?, CCPA, March 9, 2006
Mind the Gap – Time for Ontario to Address its Public Services Gap, CCPA, February 2, 2006
Praying for Rain: The McGuinty Strategy for Fiscal Recovery – Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper #3, CCPA, May 11, 2005
Budget Outlook 2005: Avoiding the Obvious – Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper #2, CCPA, May 6, 2005
Dalton McGuinty’s Fiscal Problems – Made in Ontario, CCPA, April 7, 2005
More Than Meets the Eye: 2005-06 Pre-Budget Review, CCPA, January 12, 2005
What’s Next? A Guide to Dalton McGuinty’s First Budget, CCPA, May 14, 2004
“Taxation: The Martin Record” in Hell and High Water: An Assessment of Paul Martin’s Record and Implications For the Future (ed. Todd Scarth), CCPA, April 2004, pp.55-66
Riding Off in All Directions – An Examination of Winnipeg’s New Deal, CCPA, March 9, 2004
FastFacts: Fairness and the New Deal, CCPA, March 3, 2004
Ontario Chose Change. Will the Liberals?, CCPA, January 12, 2004
Meeting the Need – Rebuilding Ontario’s Ability to Pay for Public Services, CCPA, January 1, 2004
Magna Budget Aftermath – The Sweet Revenge of Erik Peters, CCPA, November 5, 2003
Coming Home to Roost: Ontario Pre-“Budget” Analysis, CCPA, March 26, 2003
Commentary on the Eves Mock Budget – Eves Promised Vox Populi; Delivered Magna Vox, CCPA, March 1, 2003
Message to BC – Ontario Learned the Hard Way, CCPA, July 1, 2002
The Money is There – Pre-Budget Fiscal Update, CCPA, June 13, 2002
Ontario’s Phantom Fiscal Crisis, CCPA, April 22, 2002
Toronto’s Revenue Crisis – A Made at Queen’s Park Problem That’s Only Going to Get Worse, CCPA, March 1, 2002
Ontario’s “Made by the Harris Government” Fiscal Crisis, CCPA, November 7, 2001
Tories Get Priorities Wrong in Harris Budget, CCPA, May 10, 2001
Manufactured Crisis – Ontario’s Shrinking Fiscal Options, CCPA, April 9, 2001
The Lottery in Which Everyone Wins? Assessing the Latest Liberal Tax Cuts, CCPA, November 1, 2000
No Wonder Stephen Harper is so Pleased with the Liberal Budget, CCPA, February 24, 2005
Newfoundland and Labrador Fiscal Review, CCPA and NUPGE, March 11, 2004

Pensions

Pensions in Manitoba: What’s Working, What’s Not, What’s A Solution, What’s Not,, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, October 2017
Bill 186: How to Strengthen the ORPP, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, May 2016
It’s broke … so fix it – An Alberta Perspective on Pension Reform, Manitoba Federation of Labour, November 2016
With Sheila Block, Getting the Design Right on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives February 2015
Risky Business: Canada’s Retirement Income System Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, March 2014
Canada’s Broken Retirement Income System: What’s Next?Ryerson Centre for Labour Management Relations, November 2012

Education Funding

Shortchanging Ontario Students: An Overview and Assessment of Education Funding in Ontario Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, August 2017
Time for a Course Correction in Ontario School Funding Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, March 2018
Harris Era Hangovers: Toronto Trustees’ Inherited Funding ShortfallCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, February 2015
Learning and Earning – The Impact of Taxation in the Higher Education Debates, CCPA, June 14, 2013
No Time for Complacency – Education Funding Reality Check, CCPA, November 5, 2009
Debunking a Neoliberal Education Myth – It’s Tuition Fees that are Regressive, Not Public Funding, CCPA, June 1, 2007
Missing the Mark – How Ontario’s Education Funding Formula is Shortchanging Students, CCPA, May 1, 2007
FastFacts: Tuition Fees – A Regressive Flat Tax, CCPA, April 19, 2007
Turning Point? Time to Renovate Ontario’s Education Funding Formula, CCPA, October 3, 2006
Don’t Blame the Feds – The Fiscal Imbalance is Largely a Problem Imposed by the Provinces on Themselves Through Destructive Tax Competition, CCPA, July 21, 2006
The Art of the Impossible – Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Balance in Canada, CCPA, July 11, 2006
McGuinty Government Fails Vulnerable Citizens, CCPA, April 18, 2006
Setting the Stage for 2007-08 – A Comment on the 2006-07 Ontario Budget, CCPA, March 23, 2006
The Tuition Trap, OCUFA, September 2005
Funding Postsecondary Education in Ontario: Beyond the Path of Least Resistance, Ontario Coalition for Postsecondary Education, December 2004
Are We There Yet? A Progressive Report on Education Renewal in Ontario, CCPA, October 20, 2004
Telling Tales Out of School – How the Ontario Government in(n’t) Funding Education, CCPA, May 22, 2003
Adding Rozanski – A Roadmap to Implementation, CCPA, January 29, 2003
Reading Rozanski – A Guide to the Report of the Education Equality Taskforce 2002, CCPA, December 1, 2002
Cutting Classes – Elementary and Secondary Education Funding in Ontario, CCPA, July 4, 2002
Ernie Eves’ Short Life as a Departure From Mike Harris, CCPA, May 1, 2002
University Funding Cuts – Shortchanging Ontario Students (w. Mark Rosenfeld), CCPA, April 29, 2002

Income Inequality

The Union Card – A Ticket Into Middle Class Stability Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, May 2015
All in a Day’s Work? CEO Pay in Canada, Reports & Studies, CCPA, January 14, 2014
Why the 99 per cent still matter in Canadian politics, CCPA, January 17, 2013
Canada’s CEO Elite 100 – The 0.01%, CCPA, January 3, 2012
Recession-Proof – Canada’s best paid CEOs, CCPA, January 3, 2011
A Soft Landing – Recession and Canada’s 100 Highest Paid CEOs, CCPA, January 4, 2010
Banner Year for Canada’s CEOs – Record High Pay Increase, CCPA, January 2, 2009
A Living Wage for Toronto (w. Jim Stanford), CCPA, November 18, 2008
Size Matters – Canada’s Ecological Footprint, By Income (w. Hans Messinger & Rick Smith), CCPA, June 24, 2008
The Great CEO Pay Race – Over Before it Begins, CCPA, January 2, 2008
The Rich are Getting Richer – And We’re Helping, CCPA, October 4, 2007
Bringing Minimum Wages Above the Poverty Line (w. Stuart Murray), CCPA, March 26, 2007
Raising the Minimum Wage in Ontario, CCPA, February 1, 2007
Of Fat Cats and Men – We Need to Re-Examine How We Value Work, CCPA, January 17, 2007
Timing is Everything – Comparing the Earnings of Canada’s Highest-Paid CEOs and the Rest of Us, CCPA, January 2, 2007
Ontario’s Little Capital Gains Game, CCPA, May 1, 2000
Who’s Really Winning Here? The Real Story of the Martin Tax Cut Budget, CCPA, February 29, 2000

Healthcare Funding

Down the Drain: How Canada Has Wasted $62 Billion Health Care Dollars without Pharmacare, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, December 2016
The Canada Health Care Disconnect: an Aging Population, Rising Health Care Costs and a Shrinking Federal Role in Funding, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, July 2015
The Sustainability of Medicare (w. Michael Rachlis), Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, August 2010
Financing Canada’s Hospitals: Public Alternatives to P3s, Canadian Health Coalition, October 2004

Oil & Resources

Oil companies crying all the way to the bank, CCPA, May 12, 2011
Big Oil’s Big Day – Stelmach takes it away; Flaherty gives it right back, and more, CCPA, November 5, 2007
The Problem is Oil Company Gouging, Not Higher Prices, CCPA, May 22, 2007
Gas Price Gouge – The Sequel, CCPA, May 10, 2007
What’s Behind High Gas Prices? Can You Spell “Gouge”?, CCPA, September 29, 2005
“In Picking Oil Price Targets, Money Talks” in Costly Energy: Why oil and Gas Prices Are Rising and What We Can Do About It – A Collection of Progressive Analysis and Policy Alternatives (ed. Seth Klein), CCPA, February 2001
Are Taxes Behind the Hike in Gas Prices?, CCPA, October 17, 2000

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