Province minimum wage increase highest in more than four decades

The province’s plans to increase minimum wage to as much as $15 per hour by 2019 will see wages paid to entry level workers rise faster than they have in more than four decades.
A Postmedia analysis of minimum wages paid to Ontario workers since 1970 shows that, when adjusted for inflation, minimum wages have sat steadily at around $10 per hour for more than four decades. The calculation was made using actual minimum wages in Ontario, which are recorded by the federal government, before ap