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Rising CEO Pay: Could it fuel social unrest?
BNN (Business News Network) has taken on the thorny topic of soaring CEO pay in Canada. Two former CEOs joined CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan for a discussion about CEO pay and came...
June 1, 2011 | National Office
CEO Pay Soared in 2010
Did your pay go up by 13% last year? If you were a CEO at one of Canada's 100 biggest companies, it did. The Globe and Mail review of executive pay in 2010 reveals CEOs at Canada’s 100...
May 30, 2011 | National Office
Conservative tax policies could aggravate the gap between the rich and the rest of us
"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
What's the key to the 'good society'?
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...
May 20, 2011 | National Office
Economics, Equality and Democracy
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...
May 9, 2011 | National Office
How to close the gap between the rich and the rest of us
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...
May 6, 2011
Will income inequality inform Canada's political agenda?
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...
April 30, 2011 | National Office
Will the middle class have to learn to do with less?
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 "...
March 22, 2011
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report co-produced by the Canadian Centre...
March 20, 2011 | National Office
Inequality and revolution
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...
March 2, 2011

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