A Different Ontario

Andrew has previously held a variety of positions including Director General of the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC), Associate Executive Director and Director of Research and Program Development at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, and Co-Director of the Centre for Research and Information on Canada. [...] Highest growth (7.2 per cent) is in the inner ring around Toronto, from Oshawa in the east to Burlington in the west (essentially the Greater Toronto Area outside of the City of Toronto). [...] The Greater Toronto Area is the only one of the the economic life province’s six regions that currently has more of the communities children (age 14 and under) than seniors. [...] As a rule of thumb, then, the smaller the community, the fewer workers there are to sustain the economic life of the communities in which a growing number of seniors reside. [...] The first of these is the increase in the proportion of people living on their own.