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Growing Gap
The story of the rich and the rest of us
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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Colour code keeps workers out of good jobs: Study
TORONTO – Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report on Canada’s racialized income gap shows a colour code is still at work in Canada’s…
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BNN and the growing gap
For the past few weeks, a business leader could scarcely pick up a magazine without bumping into that other inconvenient truth of our era: rising…
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Recession-Proof
Canada’s 100 best paid CEOs Download 624.42 KB17 pages
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Canada’s best-paid CEOs ‘recession-proof’: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Canada’s best-paid 100 CEOs breezed through the worst of the recession with earnings 155 times higher than the…
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The Rise of Canada’s Richest 1%
Download 739.09 KB22 pages This generation of rich canadians is staking claim to a larger share of economic growth than any generation that has preceded…
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Richest 1% income shares at historic high
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Canada’s richest 1% are taking more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history,…
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Ed Broadbent’s Canada: More equal, more optimistic
Ed Broadbent, one of Canada’s most respected progressive sages, sat down with the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy to talk about the Canada he grew up in…
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La fiscalité
Pourquoi investir dans les Canadiens Lorsque vous entendez le mot « impôts », ça vous fait penser à quoi ? Aux hôpitaux où vous pouvez vous rendre au…
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Canada’s Housing Bubble
An Accident Waiting to Happen Download 1.03 MB 24 pages For the first time in 30 years, six of Canada’s hottest real estate markets are…
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A look at Canada’s housing market
Who might be in trouble and what can be done? The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study showing that, for the first time…
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Housing bubble at precarious 30-year peak
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – For the first time in 30 years, a synchronized housing bubble has spread to six red-hot…
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