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O'Toole's Going Down, The Pandemic is Still Killing Businesses & The Tale of Two Ontario's

O'Toole's Going Down, The Pandemic is Still Killing Businesses & The Tale of Two Ontario's

The Alex Pierson Show · 640 Toronto / Curiouscast

February 2, 202238m 51s

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On this episode, Alex is first joined by Chris Chapin, strategist and Managing Principal Upstream Strategy to break down the emergency leadership review that has been called against Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, who may be facing his last hours as party leader. 
Alex next speaks with Phillip Cross, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute & Fraser Institute. 36 years at Stats Canada specializing in macroeconomics to look into the many businesses within the GTA that are still barely getting by thanks to the many pandemic measures that are still in place.
And finally, Alex and Ben Eisen.  Sr. Fellow at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Measuring Ontario’s Regional Prosperity Gap—2022 Update. They talk about the new study that shows certain regions of Ontario are getting paid much less on average than others.

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