This report examines the details of Statistics Canada's wealth survey and finds that wealth inequality trends have quietly gone unnoticed—and in fact, Canada's wealth gap is bigger than its income gap. The report also provides an analysis of the 86 wealthiest Canadian residents, finding that they held the same amount of wealth in 2012 as the bottom 11.4 million Canadians combined. The paper concludes by examining a few options to help narrow Canada’s wealth gap, including reforms to capital gains tax and a higher inclusion rate/higher income taxes at the top of Canada’s income spectrum.

A recovery strategy that aims to put Ontario back where it was in 2007 means no progress for women. Women had lower levels of employment and higher levels of poverty before, during and after the recession.

Young women were among the biggest losers during the recession - experiencing nearly double the rate of decline in their employment as young men. 

At the other end of the spectrum, the numbers of women who stayed in the workforce after age 65 doubled betwen 2007-2013. 

Renowned Canadian political economist and long-time CCPA research associate Mel Watkins passed away on April 2, 2020. To remember Mel and celebrate his work, the CCPA is re-releasing The Staple Theory @50, originally published in March 2014, with the following new introduction by Jim Stanford.

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The 2014 Nova Scotia Alternative Provincial Budget provides a blueprint and lays out more than 99 ways that our government can improve the province for all of us—including how we can begin addressing income inequality and build a strong and more prosperous province where more of us share in that prosperity.

This year’s alternative budget is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 40 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations.

Ontario’s labour market woes can’t be blamed on a recession hangover – the underlying trouble is a long-term, seismic shift that requires new policy answers, says a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Ontario (CCPA-Ontario).

Seismic Shift: Ontario’s Changing Labour Market examines Ontario’s labour market since 2000 – the height of the Canadian dollar and the beginning of the province’s manufacturing decline. It finds the very nature of work is changing – rapidly.