Growing Gap Updates
Income inequality is the worst it’s been in 90 years, worse even than at its previous peak in the Roaring Twenties. As the gap widens between the rich and poor, economists predict growing unrest in...
November 7, 2011 |
National Office Macleans magazine has created a great simple online calculator to help Canadians see where they belong on the income inequality scale. Click here to plug in your annual income and find out where you...
October 25, 2011 |
National Office In a new blog post, the CCPA's Trish Hennessy looks at the evolution of framing income inequality and how the Occupy Wall Street movement has shifted the frame once more.
Click here to read Trish's...
October 13, 2011 |
National Office CCPA senior economist Armine Yalnizyan, was presented with the Ontario Public Health Association’s Award of Excellence on October 5, 2011 at their annual meetings. She accepted this honour on behalf...
October 6, 2011 |
National Office, Ontario Office A former CEO makes a refreshing case for CEOs to abandon the current short-term 'conventional wisdom' and to operate according to more sustainable practices in this Harvard Business Review blog.
September 27, 2011 |
National Office It's a strange world. Senior economist Armine Yalnizyan was commissioned by theNational Post to make a case about income inequality for their opinion page. The piece ran under the headline "A...
September 23, 2011 |
National Office The latest from the Conference Board of Canada: “The gap between the rich and the rest is growing ever wider -- with the chasm increasing at a faster pace in Canada than in the United States. That’s...
September 13, 2011 |
National Office CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes how the business establishment is growing concerned about income inequality in Canada in this Canada Business article. Read the article here.
August 12, 2011 |
National Office The Toronto Star's David Olive has been writing about income inequality for years, but has begun to wonder if it will be the source of an uprising in North America within his lifetime. He warns: "We...
July 27, 2011 |
National Office The income gap between the rich and the rest of us has worsened over the past generation. In 2009, during the dark days of Canada's recession, the richest 20% of Canadians took home a whopping 44.2%...
July 18, 2011 |
National Office The Conference Board of Canada has released a report tracking 33 years of worsening income inequality in Canada. In this Toronto Star story, board President Anne Golden says: "While the poor are...
July 13, 2011 |
National Office Maclean's magazine focuses on Canada's highest paid 50 CEOs and finds their take-home pay increases to be "astronomical". Macleans writes: "In the past 12 years, there’s been a 444 per cent salary...
June 27, 2011 |
National Office The Globe and Mail created an interesting infographic that breaks down millionaires by where they live in the world. It shows Canada as home to 282,000 millionaires.See it here.
June 27, 2011 |
National Office 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 to...
June 1, 2011 |
National Office 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 largest...
May 30, 2011 |
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