The CCPA’s Growing Gap project takes an in-depth and sustained look at one of the biggest challenges of our time: Worsening income and wealth inequality in Canada. Our team of economists and researchers have been tracking household income, wealth, spending and credit data, unearthing a troubling phenomenon.
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Hugh Mackenzie, researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, gives you the dirt on the growing income gap between Canada’s very rich and the…

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX – Nova Scotians are working harder and smarter but the majority have been denied the fruits of…

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Canadians’ perceptions of poverty Download 515.84 KB 25 pages

TORONTO – The majority of Canadians believe Canada should try to distinguish itself in the world as a country where no one lives in poverty,…

OECD report shows rift in Canada increasing at quick rate The internationally respected Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development threw out a warning flag to…

CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. TORONTO – Les 10 % de Canadiens et de Canadiennes les plus riches créent une plus grande empreinte écologique…

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – The richest 10 percent of Canadians create a bigger ecological footprint – a whopping 66 percent higher –…

Canada’s Ecological Footprint, By Income Download 1.07 MB31 pages

Presentation to the CLC Convention Download 106.41 KB6 pages

Download 398.11 KB32 pages Why Inequality Matters in 1,000 Words or Less is powerful essay series by some of Canada’s leading thinkers on income inequality.…
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