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Overcompensating: A Fact Sheet on Executive Pay in Canada
For Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs, the rewards start clocking in very early into the New Year. By 1:18pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year,…
Hennessy’s Index: January 2013
First Nations: The Long Shadow of Assimilation Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For…
Infographic: How much do Torontonians love their public libraries?
Margaret Atwood tweeted in defence of public libraries during last year’s budget discussions at Toronto’s City Hall, but just how much do Torontonians love their libraries? Toronto’s public libraries are…
Inequality At Its Worst
The Scrooges in Canada are stealing our kids’ Christmas On Christmas morning this year, how many children in Canada will wake to find no toys from Santa, no new clothes…
A Dangerous Brew
Perimeter Security Plan threatens privacy and civil rights Fillet of a fenny snake, in the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and…
Capitalism is the Crisis (Part IV)
Protests in Greece expose failure of capitalism in Europe During November 2012, Europe erupted in anti-austerity demonstrations, with protestors clashing violently with police in Spain and Portugal, where general strikes…
In Search of Child Care
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the…
The European Debt Crisis (Part I)
Eurozone’s financial crisis is a tale of two social paradigms A social paradigm, in the context of this essay, refers to an operative theory of reality, namely, a conceptual framework,…
Capitalism is the Crisis (Part III)
Time to sow seeds of a better world, says Vandana Shiva British colonial rule in India led to the killing of 200 million Indians and, with this holocaust, the country…
The Attack on Organics
Anti-organics study funded by Cargill and other corporations Food issues have been much in the news recently, but I want to focus on what can only be called an attempt…
Idea Factory
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the…
The High Cost of Learning
There’s no excuse for the soaring tuition fees in Canada It might have been my imagination (or perhaps wishful thinking), but in the midst of this year’s back-to-school media coverage,…
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