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81 per cent said the Ford government should invest in public services by ensuring funding keeps pace with inflation and population growth;
80 per cent prioritized maintaining or increasing funding for public services like health care and education, even if it means increasing corporate taxes;
76 per cent believed the provincial government should increase income taxes on individual earnings over $300,000 per year to help ensure adequate funding for essential public services;
70 per cent believed the Ontario government has only one sure way to create jobs: by providing tax money to public sector employers and requiring that the money be used to hire more workers to provide public services.
Randomized-controlled trials are methodologically inappropriate in adolescent transgender healthcare
The scientific value of RCTs is severely impeded when studying the impact of gender-affirming care on the mental health of trans adolescent. Gender-affirming interventions have physiologically evident effects and are highly desired by participants, giving rise to concerns over adherence, drop-out, response bias, and generalizability. Complementary and well-designed observational studies can instead be used to ground reliable recommendations for clinical practice and policymaking in adolescent trans healthcare, without the need for RCTs.