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Income Inequality
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Climate inequality defines the present; don’t let it define the future
The people who are least responsible for climate change will feel its effects the hardest. It’s time for policy-makers to address that injustice.
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Education: Inequality’s solution or great reinforcer?
For the unlucky children born on the lower rungs of Canada’s ladder of inequality, accessing quality education is hard. It doesn’t need to be this way.
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How the CCPA sparked a national conversation about income inequality
Understanding inequality, and providing policymakers the tools to combat it, is a role the CCPA is happy to fill.
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What will it take to tackle income inequality?
Our country has the resources to provide dignity for all—our leaders’ failure to do so is a political choice.
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Is Quebec a distinct society when it comes to inequality?
It isn’t exactly a shining beacon of equality, but Quebec does a lot of things better. Those policies are the result of relatively strong unions and social movements.
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Income inequality: One of the great challenges of our times
Income inequality isn’t just about salaries—it’s a pervasive problem with dire implications on a range of social issues, from health to the environment to education.
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The Monitor, March/April 2023
Our experts at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have long analyzed entrenched income inequality in Canada. We make a special focus of it in…
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Fast Facts: Whose Freedom?
The Convoy that took over Ottawa for a month last year just met outside Winnipeg this past weekend. While the right to protest is an…
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Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shutdown of large sections of the Ontario economy. In a few short months, total economic activity in…
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Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19
For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally get around to taking action.
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Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs Programs like BUILD
A version of this article was published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 11, 2022 Just before the holidays, BUILD, Inc. announced the closure of…
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Breakfast of champions
Record-breaking total compensation: Average pay for the best-paid 100 CEOs hit $14.3 million in 2021, smashing the previous record of $11.8 million in 2018 and setting…
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