Growing Gap Project
Solutions for a fairer, more equal Canada
The CCPA’s Growing Gap project takes an in-depth and sustained look at one of the biggest challenges of our time: Worsening income and wealth inequality in Canada. Our team of economists and researchers have been tracking household income, wealth, spending and credit data, unearthing a troubling phenomenon.
- The pay gap between CEOs and minimum wage workers is far too big.
- The income gap between the rich and the rest of us is stubbornly high.
- We need to narrow the income gap between white workers and Indigenous, racialized, and immigrant workers.
- Poverty is far too high for such a wealthy country as Canada.
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BNN and the growing gap
For the past few weeks, a business leader could scarcely pick up a magazine without bumping into that other inconvenient truth of our era: rising inequality. It’s been the topic…
Canada’s best-paid CEOs ‘recession-proof’: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Canada’s best-paid 100 CEOs breezed through the worst of the recession with earnings 155 times higher than the average Canadian income earner, says…
Richest 1% income shares at historic high
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Canada’s richest 1% are taking more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history, says a report by the…
The Rise of Canada’s Richest 1%
Download 739.09 KB22 pages This generation of rich canadians is staking claim to a larger share of economic growth than any generation that has preceded it in recorded history. An…
Ed Broadbent’s Canada: More equal, more optimistic
Ed Broadbent, one of Canada’s most respected progressive sages, sat down with the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy to talk about the Canada he grew up in and how it’s changed over…
La fiscalité
Pourquoi investir dans les Canadiens Lorsque vous entendez le mot « impôts », ça vous fait penser à quoi ? Aux hôpitaux où vous pouvez vous rendre au milieu de la nuit si…
Housing bubble at precarious 30-year peak
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – For the first time in 30 years, a synchronized housing bubble has spread to six red-hot real estate markets in Canada,…
Canada’s Housing Bubble
An Accident Waiting to Happen Download 1.03 MB 24 pages For the first time in 30 years, six of Canada’s hottest real estate markets are in a housing bubble. This…
A look at Canada’s housing market
Who might be in trouble and what can be done? The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study showing that, for the first time in 30 years, six red-hot…
The Problem of Poverty Post-Recession
Download 318.18 KB 7 pages Every recession ushers in a rising tide of poverty. As jobless and underemployed people struggle to make ends meet, the nouveau poor swell the ranks…
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