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David Macdonald
David Macdonald (he/him) is a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Follow him on X at @DavidMacCdn.
A New Revenue Tool
The case for a Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area sales tax Download 282.45 KB8 pages This paper looks at how much revenue could be raised…
Social impact bonds: Everyone’s profiting, except at-risk Indigenous women
Social impact bonds…they’re back in case you didn’t get enough of them here or here. This time around they are in Manitoba and it’s a $3 million program that involves doulas…
Mint Condition
CEO pay in Canada Download 793.62 KB 18 pages Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs netted 197 times more than the average worker made in 2017, earning…
The Double-Pane Glass Ceiling
The Gender Pay Gap at The Top Of Corporate Canada Download 664.8 KB32 pages For the first time, this report examines differences in pay between male…
Des conditions exceptionnelles
La rémunération des PDG au Canada Download 335.61 KB 13 pages En 2017 les 100 PDG les mieux rémunérés au Canada ont touché 197 fois plus que…
A prescription for savings
Federal revenue options for pharmacare and their distributional impacts on households, businesses and governments Download 1.11 MB 45 pages Pharmacare is high on Canada’s political…
Une prescription d’économies
Options de recettes fédérales pour un régime national universel d’assurance-médicaments et leurs effets distributifs sur les ménages, les entreprises et les gouvernements Download 200.7 KB7…
Corporate tax cuts enrich shareholders, not competitiveness
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Born to Win
Wealth concentration in Canada since 1999 Download 719.37 KB29 pages There has been plenty of concern in Canada and around the world about income inequality,…
Les déserts de services de garde au Canada
Download 3.95 MB 40 pages Le présent rapport a pour objet de cartographier une liste complète des places en services de garde réglementés en fonction…
Child Care Deserts in Canada
Download 3.9 MB36 pages This data is out of date. For the most updated version of the data, click here. Ensuring Canadian families have access…
Wall Street to the rescue? Why we should be wary of social impact bonds
While proponents of social impact bonds situate investors as heroes working with underserved communities, the reality is much less charitable.
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