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Nov 25, 2024 | 
financialpost.com | Ricardo Tranjan
We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Why it's time for a serious debate about rent control in Canada We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or With high rents making headlines every week, we would expect a lively debate on the most direct way to curb the problem: rent control.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
theafronews.com | Ricardo Tranjan
On Oct. 1, the minimum wage increased in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Island. All other provinces except Alberta brought in increases earlier this year. That means most minimum-wage workers are doing better, right? Not necessarily. Minimum-wage workers living on their own are most likely to rent. In recent years, rent increases have outpaced minimum wage increases, eating away at workers' additional income.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
sasktoday.ca | Ricardo Tranjan
On Oct. 1, the minimum wage increased in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Island. All other provinces except Alberta brought in increases earlier this year. That means most minimum-wage workers are doing better, right?
Right?
Not necessarily.
Minimum-wage workers living on their own are most likely to rent. In recent years, rent increases have outpaced minimum wage increases, eating away at workers’ additional income.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Ricardo Tranjan
Earlier this month, Toronto saw the opening of Dunn House, a four-story building with 51 non-market, supportive housing apartments. It will provide homes to unhoused individuals with complex medical and social needs. The feat deserves kudos, but it also raises the question: Why aren’t we doing more of it? The short answer is that governments don’t prioritize non-market housing.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Ricardo Tranjan
Earlier this month, Toronto saw the opening of Dunn House, a four-story building with 51 non-market, supportive housing apartments. It will provide homes to unhoused individuals with complex medical and social needs. The feat deserves kudos, but it also raises the question: Why aren’t we doing more of it? The short answer is that governments don’t prioritize non-market housing.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
southasianpost.com | Ricardo Tranjan
CommentaryBy Ricardo TranjanOn Oct. 1, the minimum wage increased in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Island. All other provinces except Alberta brought in increases earlier this year. That means most minimum-wage workers are doing better, right? Right? Not necessarily. Minimum-wage workers living on their own are most likely to rent. In recent years, rent increases have outpaced minimum wage increases, eating away at workers’ additional income.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
asianpacificpost.com | Ricardo Tranjan
CommentaryBy Ricardo TranjanOn Oct. 1, the minimum wage increased in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Island. All other provinces except Alberta brought in increases earlier this year. That means most minimum-wage workers are doing better, right? Right? Not necessarily. Minimum-wage workers living on their own are most likely to rent. In recent years, rent increases have outpaced minimum wage increases, eating away at workers’ additional income.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
troymedia.com | Ricardo Tranjan
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe minimum wage increase in Canada is being outpaced by rising rental costsOn Oct. 1, the minimum wage increased in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Island. All other provinces except Alberta brought in increases earlier this year. That means most minimum-wage workers are doing better, right? Right? Not necessarily. Minimum-wage workers living on their own are most likely to rent.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Véronique Sioufi |Jon Milton |David Macdonald |Ricardo Tranjan
The Canadian state has tried to cultivate an image and identity as an exception among settler colonial nations—a leader in both Indigenous reconciliation and multiculturalism domestically and a neutral peacemaker on the world stage. There’s one obvious exception to this cultivated image.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Jon Milton |David Macdonald |Ricardo Tranjan
Nora Loreto recently published Canada in Decline: The Social Safety Net, the first book in a planned series on the history of neoliberalism in Canada. This first book covers the impact of neoliberal restructuring on social services in Canada since the 1980s. The Monitor caught up with Loreto for a discussion on the rise of the neoliberal economic model in Canada. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The Monitor: Your latest book is about the history of neoliberalism in Canada.
