Growing Gap Updates
"The Conservatives, who will soon deliver their post-election budget, are championing a set of plans that may accelerate Canada’s growing gap between rich and poor, a sign of inequality that has...
May 30, 2011 |
Imagine a country that puts the well-being of the majority ahead of the profits of a tiny minority. They do it in Denmark. In this short video, Affluenza author Oliver James talks about how...
May 20, 2011 |
National Office CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan gets up close and personal in this pivotal lecture on income inequality and democracy. Watch the TVO video of the lecture, which was produced in collaboration...
May 9, 2011 |
National Office CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan and Senator Hugh Segal took Canadians' questions about how to close the income gap between the rich and the rest of us.
Read the exchange here.
May 6, 2011 |
The Toronto Star's Olivia Ward weighs in on the election and the role of income inequality in the political question of the day: Will our federal government work for the common good?
Read the story,...
April 30, 2011 |
National Office That's the question journalist and author Linda McQuaig addresses in her column about greed, the assault on middle class dreams, and the "looming conflict" between Canada's elite and the "aspirations...
March 22, 2011 |
Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Wellesley Institute on Canada’s racialized income gap shows a colour code...
March 21, 2011 |
National Office Income inequality "has emerged as a major social and economic issue" in Canada and elsewhere, writes Canadian author and political commentator Frances Russell. "More importantly, no longer is it the...
March 2, 2011 |
The problem of worsening income inequality is quickly gathering steam.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, leading experts named inequality, the concentration of wealth into the hands of a few, as...
February 22, 2011 |
CTV's Business News Network (BNN) begins a three-part series today looking at the gap between the rich and the rest of us. Today's show, at 5 pm EST, features Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of...
February 9, 2011 |
National Office MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of...
January 25, 2011 |
That's the tongue-in-cheek conclusion of the satiristic news source, The Onion, which names the growing gap between the rich and poor the 8th natural wonder of the world, calling the divide the "most...
January 24, 2011 |
Picking through the wreckage of the global recession, former Privy Council Clerk Alex Himelfarb takes stock of what happened and points to two trends he predicts might shape politics and policy in...
January 20, 2011 |
A week after we released our review of CEO pay in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission says it's time to review how executives get paid. Read the story here.
January 10, 2011 |
National Office A new study by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shows Canada's best paid 100 CEOs appear to be recession-proof.
The study looks at 2009 compensation levels for Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs and...
January 3, 2011 |
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