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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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The Road to Better Public Services
It seems like every newly elected Premier in Ontario who wins on even a slightly progressive platform feels like the first step in office is…
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Hudak’s 100,000 jobs demolition plan: more extreme than the Harris years
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s campaign pledge to demolish 100,000 public sector jobs makes his mentor – former Premier Mike Harris – look like a…
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Upgrading Ontario’s fair wage policy: how to build better construction jobs
The provincial election will generate a lot of conversation about jobs, but any jobs agenda is incomplete without a firm commitment to modernize Ontario’s fair…
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The Case for a Stronger Fair Wage Policy in Ontario
Download 718.58 KB 47 pages This report analyzes Ontario’s fair wage policy, which has not been modernized since it was introduced in 1995. It draws…
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30 Reasons for Better Pay
Watch the video below and click here to visit CCPA-Ontario’s Working For A Living website—a storytelling project to convey the value of a decent minimum…
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Why I’m not gloating about Canada’s middle class
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Les 86 résidents les plus riches du Canada pourraient acheter le Nouveau-Brunswick: étude
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA—Une nouvelle analyse du groupe que constitue les 86 résidents les plus fortunés du Canada démontre qu’ils sont si…
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Outrageous Fortune
Documenting Canada’s Wealth Gap Download 619.2 KB22 pages This report examines the details of Statistics Canada’s wealth survey and finds that wealth inequality trends have…
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Infographic: Outrageous Fortune: Canada’s Wealth Gap
Did you know that Canada’s 86 wealthiest residents hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest 11.4 million Canadians combined? Like and share our…
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Canada’s wealthiest 86 residents so flush they could buy New Brunswick: study
OTTAWA—A new analysis of the 86 wealthiest Canadian residents reveals they have so much money they could buy the province of New Brunswick and still…
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The ‘girl effect’ reduces inequality, but we can’t count on it forever
This piece was first published in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. Every year when International Women’s Day rolls by, I can’t help but reflect on power, how…
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