Ricardo Tranjan
@ricardotranjan.bsky.social
Senior researcher on housing and social policy @policyalternatives.ca, PhD. Speaks EN, FR, PT, ES. Author of The Tenant Class, btlbooks.com/book/the-tenant-class
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Governments should indeed be using their procurement powers to encourage local contracts. The new Buy Ontario Act falls short in important ways. By @noahfry.bsky.social #onpoli
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The Buy Ontario Act is a rebrand with little new to offer - CCPA
On November 20, the government of Ontario announced the Buy Ontario Act. This is a follow up to a 2022 policy—the Building Ontario Businesses Initiative Act—that favoured Ontarian suppliers within pu...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Governments should indeed be using their procurement powers to encourage local contracts. The new Buy Ontario Act falls short in important ways. By @noahfry.bsky.social #onpoli
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New from NHAs' blog: our analysis of Ontario's Bill 60.
Bill 60, as proposed, will make it easier & faster to evict tenants.
We explore 6 proposed changes, showing how they will erode tenants protections & further fuel Ontario's homelessness crisis 👇🧵
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Bill 60, as proposed, will make it easier & faster to evict tenants.
We explore 6 proposed changes, showing how they will erode tenants protections & further fuel Ontario's homelessness crisis 👇🧵
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Ontario’s Bill 60 Will Make it Easier and Faster for Landlords to Evict Tenants - New Housing Alternatives
Doug Ford's Bill 60 proposes changes to the Residential Tenancies Act that will erode tenant protections and worsen the homelessness crisis.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New from NHAs' blog: our analysis of Ontario's Bill 60.
Bill 60, as proposed, will make it easier & faster to evict tenants.
We explore 6 proposed changes, showing how they will erode tenants protections & further fuel Ontario's homelessness crisis 👇🧵
newhousingalternatives.ca/ontarios-bil...
Bill 60, as proposed, will make it easier & faster to evict tenants.
We explore 6 proposed changes, showing how they will erode tenants protections & further fuel Ontario's homelessness crisis 👇🧵
newhousingalternatives.ca/ontarios-bil...
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The real message Ontario's fall economic statement delivered is that there is no help on the way for Ontario families and communities by @ricardotranjan.bsky.social
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Ontario Fall Economic Statement: No help on the way - CCPA
Last May, CCPA’s detailed analysis of the Ontario budget argued that it failed to address years-long funding shortfalls, leaving the province vulnerable to the economic storm on the horizon.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The real message Ontario's fall economic statement delivered is that there is no help on the way for Ontario families and communities by @ricardotranjan.bsky.social
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#Budget2025 analysis from @policyalternatives.ca: Major military spending will come at a huge cost to vital public programs and services. Which parties will support the minority government on this one? By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @hadrianmk.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election - CCPA
With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
#Budget2025 analysis from @policyalternatives.ca: Major military spending will come at a huge cost to vital public programs and services. Which parties will support the minority government on this one? By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @hadrianmk.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Bill 60 is a vicious, one-sided tenancy legislation. It will cause widespread suffering and loss of life. Anyone who stays neutral is complicit. In this @thestar.com article, I focus on why mayors should fight it.
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Ricardo Tranjan: Think Doug Ford has walked back his war on tenants? There’s more to come. Here’s how it should be fought.
Last week, the Ontario government introduced Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act. It includes many troubling legislative changes, but popular outcry so far has focused on the direct attack
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November 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Bill 60 is a vicious, one-sided tenancy legislation. It will cause widespread suffering and loss of life. Anyone who stays neutral is complicit. In this @thestar.com article, I focus on why mayors should fight it.
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Doug Ford and Mark Carney are making big moves on housing — but tenant groups and housing experts are raising an alarm.
@ricardotranjan.bsky.social joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how the emerging policy heavily favours corporate landlords. breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...
@ricardotranjan.bsky.social joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how the emerging policy heavily favours corporate landlords. breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...
Mark Carney and Doug Ford keep serving Big Landlords ⋆ The Breach
Economist Ricardo Tranjan joins Desmond Cole to discuss how Ford and Carney’s housing policies heavily favours corporate landlords
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October 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Doug Ford and Mark Carney are making big moves on housing — but tenant groups and housing experts are raising an alarm.
@ricardotranjan.bsky.social joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how the emerging policy heavily favours corporate landlords. breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...
@ricardotranjan.bsky.social joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how the emerging policy heavily favours corporate landlords. breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...
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Budgets are meant to be good news docs. This one will downplay all that will be lost with 15% cuts in most depts. We've scoured dept docs to identify programs likely to be "sunset" and the 52 depts likely to use this strategy @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Budgets are meant to be good news docs. This one will downplay all that will be lost with 15% cuts in most depts. We've scoured dept docs to identify programs likely to be "sunset" and the 52 depts likely to use this strategy @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇
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www.thestar.com/real-estate/... “It’s a straightforward attack on tenant protections in Ontario,” said @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, political economist at the @policyalternatives.ca
Doug Ford government proposes to allow tenant evictions when leases are up in new bill
Currently, tenants are protected from eviction unless there is a legal reason — such as unpaid rent or the landlord wants to move in — even after their lease expires.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
www.thestar.com/real-estate/... “It’s a straightforward attack on tenant protections in Ontario,” said @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, political economist at the @policyalternatives.ca
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I’m enormously proud of the fantastic work my colleagues at @policyalternatives.ca have done from coast to coast to coast—but we can’t do it without your support. Join us at policyalternatives.ca/solidarity
October 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I’m enormously proud of the fantastic work my colleagues at @policyalternatives.ca have done from coast to coast to coast—but we can’t do it without your support. Join us at policyalternatives.ca/solidarity
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When introducing Bill 60, the Ontario government said the bill would unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of new units but the numbers don't add up by @ricardo_tranjan www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
The rationale for Ontario’s Bill 60 does not hold up - CCPA
Yesterday, the Ontario government introduced Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025, which contains many disconcerting, proposed changes to the Residential Tenancy Act.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
When introducing Bill 60, the Ontario government said the bill would unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of new units but the numbers don't add up by @ricardo_tranjan www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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“Throughout Canadian history, private developers and landlords took advantage of various crises to enrich themselves. The property-owning class’s impetus to exploit the universal need for shelter is a constant.” @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
“Racialized neighbourhoods are being targeted for a particularly predatory form of development by financialized landlords, and we can prove it" breachmedia.ca/financialize...
Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada ⋆ The Breach
New research reveals how Canada’s biggest landlords squeeze racialized neighbourhoods for profit—buying undervalued housing, evicting tenants, and raising rents
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October 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Throughout Canadian history, private developers and landlords took advantage of various crises to enrich themselves. The property-owning class’s impetus to exploit the universal need for shelter is a constant.” @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
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« Les gouvernements [doivent] reprendre l’initiative et avoir les moyens de construire plus de logements à l’écart du marché », a déclaré @ricardotranjan.bsky.social. @policyalternatives.ca pivot.quebec/2025/10/23/q...
Que peut Projet Montréal face à la crise du logement? – Pivot
Le nouveau chef Luc Rabouin a le défi de donner plus de mordant aux politiques parfois insuffisantes héritées de l’administration Plante.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
« Les gouvernements [doivent] reprendre l’initiative et avoir les moyens de construire plus de logements à l’écart du marché », a déclaré @ricardotranjan.bsky.social. @policyalternatives.ca pivot.quebec/2025/10/23/q...
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Canada vowed to end #poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions. By Jasmine Ramze Rezaee and Leila Sarangi @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Canada set a poverty reduction goal. We’re falling behind. - CCPA
Canada vowed to end poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Canada vowed to end #poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions. By Jasmine Ramze Rezaee and Leila Sarangi @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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“...[W]e can expect wider employment gaps, wider pay gaps and the erosion of access to critical employment benefits,” explain @policyalternatives.ca senior economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social and senior researcher @kjscott.bsky.social #cdnpoli ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Cuts will impact women and racialized public servants disproportionately, new analysis says
An estimated 59 per cent of the workers cut will be women, according to a new analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“...[W]e can expect wider employment gaps, wider pay gaps and the erosion of access to critical employment benefits,” explain @policyalternatives.ca senior economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social and senior researcher @kjscott.bsky.social #cdnpoli ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
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Join the CCPA for the annual Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Fundraising Brunch honouring The National Farmers Union in Manitoba. With keynote speaker, CCPA ED Peggy Nash. Nov.2 at 10 AM at Hotel Fort Garry in Winnipeg! www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
November 2 – Errol Black Chair Fundraising Brunch 2025 - CCPA
Keynote Speaker Peggy Nash, CCPA Executive Director Sunday November 2,
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October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Join the CCPA for the annual Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Fundraising Brunch honouring The National Farmers Union in Manitoba. With keynote speaker, CCPA ED Peggy Nash. Nov.2 at 10 AM at Hotel Fort Garry in Winnipeg! www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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It was public--not private--enterprise that built this country: CNR, Ontario Hydro, the crown corporation that led to the Avro Arrow. Too bad we've forgotten. #cdnpoli #canlab
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Linda McQuaig: There’s much talk about building a stronger Canada, but silence about the one strategy that actually worked
If we’re truly interested in bold ideas, Canada should free ourselves from the notion that the only way to build a country is to cater to corporate titans.
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May 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It was public--not private--enterprise that built this country: CNR, Ontario Hydro, the crown corporation that led to the Avro Arrow. Too bad we've forgotten. #cdnpoli #canlab
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October 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is Canada’s leading progressive think tank. Let’s make a difference, together: Join us at policyalternatives.ca/Makeadifference
The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
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Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
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Ricardo Tranjan: Here comes the new minimum wage — with the same problem as the old one
Doug Ford is choosing to keep workers poor when the minimum wage could be and needs to be much higher
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October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Selon le chercheur principal au @policyalternatives.ca, @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, « le montant [de l'augmentation du salaire minimum] n’est ancré sur aucune mesure concrète de l’économie. Ce n’est pas axé sur le coût de la vie en Ontario ».
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« C’est insuffisant » : Hausse du salaire minimum en Ontario
Le salaire minimum passe de 17,20 $ à 17,60 $ ce mercredi. Cette augmentation signifie 832 $ de plus par année pour ceux qui travaillent 40 heures par semaine.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Selon le chercheur principal au @policyalternatives.ca, @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, « le montant [de l'augmentation du salaire minimum] n’est ancré sur aucune mesure concrète de l’économie. Ce n’est pas axé sur le coût de la vie en Ontario ».
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Over two thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. And when the left neglects organizing in those suburbs, we give up on reversing the right-wing tide across Canada.
Aniket Kali and I talked to the organizers in the GTA who are working to turn the tide:
Aniket Kali and I talked to the organizers in the GTA who are working to turn the tide:
Conservatives have captured working-class, visible-minority voters in suburbs—in the GTA and across the country.
@desaima.bsky.social and Aniket Kali report on the Left organizers developing a playbook to turn the tide and win them back. breachmedia.ca/to-start-win...
@desaima.bsky.social and Aniket Kali report on the Left organizers developing a playbook to turn the tide and win them back. breachmedia.ca/to-start-win...
To start winning in Canada, here’s how the Left can organize the suburbs ⋆ The Breach
Conservatives are capturing working-class, visible-minority voters outside Toronto’s downtown—and in suburban neighbourhoods across the country. The Left needs a playbook to win them back
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September 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Over two thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. And when the left neglects organizing in those suburbs, we give up on reversing the right-wing tide across Canada.
Aniket Kali and I talked to the organizers in the GTA who are working to turn the tide:
Aniket Kali and I talked to the organizers in the GTA who are working to turn the tide:
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Not engaging with the “most robust” and “most relevant” statistical analysis in Canada in recent years [on rent control] seems “disingenuous,” said senior @policyalternatives.ca economist and housing researcher @ricardotranjan.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
Are REITs good for housing? CMHC says we need more, raising concerns among some housing experts
Critics say the national housing agency has drifted from its affordability mandate, while CMHC says it wants to increase housing supply while protecting tenants.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Not engaging with the “most robust” and “most relevant” statistical analysis in Canada in recent years [on rent control] seems “disingenuous,” said senior @policyalternatives.ca economist and housing researcher @ricardotranjan.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
College workers play a crucial role in the education & training of young people.
At a time youth unemployment is at a historical high, this strike has broad economic implications for Ontario.
@CCPA_Ont's latest analysis #onted #onpoli #saveourcolleges
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At a time youth unemployment is at a historical high, this strike has broad economic implications for Ontario.
@CCPA_Ont's latest analysis #onted #onpoli #saveourcolleges
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Ontario’s striking college support workers are fighting to save a key part of the economy - CCPA
As 10,000 Ontario college support workers take to the picket line in their quest for job security, they’re also fighting for a better college system for the students they support.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
College workers play a crucial role in the education & training of young people.
At a time youth unemployment is at a historical high, this strike has broad economic implications for Ontario.
@CCPA_Ont's latest analysis #onted #onpoli #saveourcolleges
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
At a time youth unemployment is at a historical high, this strike has broad economic implications for Ontario.
@CCPA_Ont's latest analysis #onted #onpoli #saveourcolleges
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Canada’s federal election in April saw Conservatives take over the suburbs. Here, writer and political economist @ricardotranjan.bsky.social considers what it will take for progressives to find their feet again: thewalrus.ca/conservatives-pa...
September 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Canada’s federal election in April saw Conservatives take over the suburbs. Here, writer and political economist @ricardotranjan.bsky.social considers what it will take for progressives to find their feet again: thewalrus.ca/conservatives-pa...
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As Doug Ford bickers with #OntEd school board trustees over bubble gum, the govt's chronic underfunding of our schools is failing a growing number of students, says @policyalternatives.ca researcher @ricardotranjan.bsky.social. #OnPoli
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Ricardo Tranjan: As Ford bickers with trustees over bubble gum, our chronically underfunded schools are failing a growing number of students
Whatever is happening with administrative expenses can neither explain nor solve the serious challenges schools are facing.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As Doug Ford bickers with #OntEd school board trustees over bubble gum, the govt's chronic underfunding of our schools is failing a growing number of students, says @policyalternatives.ca researcher @ricardotranjan.bsky.social. #OnPoli
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