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With mass mobilizations like Idle No More re-imagining how we work together for progressive, just and caring communities, standing up against bullying and calling out and naming oppressors is taking on an even greater resonance these days. 

The winter 2013 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves focuses on standing up to oppression. Two key articles explicitly look at the topic bullying in our schools, provide thoughtful analysis about the impacts on students and adults, and propose a number of solutions for identifying and working through oppressive situations that victimize the most vulnerable.

Other articles look at ways in which educators, parents and students can and are working together to create safe, creative, accessible and nurturing school environments that meet the needs of more kids and more communities. In many cases, creating these multifaceted, dynamic models of education require a rejection of more corporate, private models of school structure and finance that do little but reinforce existing socioeconomic inequities and power dynamics, as illustrated by a number of important contributions to this issue of Our Schools /Our Selves.

Click here to preview and order the latest issue of OS/OS, Bullying: Working together to break the silence.

Income inequality in Canada is on the rise—especially in the country's largest cities. CCPA analysis of new data finds the richest 1% of Canadians make almost $180,000 more today than they did in 1982 (adjusted for inflation), while the bottom 90% of Canadians saw income gains of only $1,700.

In Canada’s three largest cities—Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal—the bottom 90% make less today than they did in 1982. They’ve seen drops in income of $4,300, $1,900, and $224, respectively. The top 1% in those cities saw pay increases of $189,000, $297,000, and $162,000, respectively.

No province has managed to become more equal since 1980. Instead, all provinces have become more unequal, although to varying degrees.

Click here for more analysis, and check out our infographics below.

Pour une analyse québécoise (en français), visitez le blogue d'IRIS: Le 1% au Québec (1): plus de revenus, moins d’impôts.