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Money is changing hands, not the system
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Pay equity isn’t just about fairness—it’s about unleashing economic potential and creating a more just society… It’s time to decouple maternity and parental benefits from Employment Insurance. Childcare and postnatal care are work, not unemployment… Ten per cent of the labour force is self-employed… Tax reform is a powerful tool to fund public services while decreasing the wealth gap. An increase in the capital gains inclusion rate, paired with an annual and indexed lifetime exemption threshold, will allow for greater tax fairness.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, tax, women, youth
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When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden
Monday, September 15th, 2025
The mental-illness health epidemic is growing alongside a crisis of economy and political legitimacy in Western societies. The distress and insecurity produced becomes another source of profiteering in the marketized economy where personhood is socially produced through individualized consumption… this enables distraction from social causes of distress such as poverty, inadequate housing, social injustice, discrimination, exclusion, and chronic financial insecurity; alongside militarism, and appalling levels of violence inflicted by governments on global citizens they control (or try to control).
Tags: featured, housing, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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To solve Canada’s housing crisis, we need to change the way we think about wealth
Monday, June 23rd, 2025
… younger generations are uniquely burdened by Canada’s tax code and its outdated understanding of affluence, which is no longer primarily based on income but on assets. Canadian wealth today is about what you own, not what you make — and whether you own depends largely on when you were born…. younger workers are paying taxes at rates originally meant for the wealthiest Canadians, all while struggling to achieve the markers of even a historically lower-middle-class lifestyle.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Canadians are feeling increasingly powerless amid economic struggles and rising inequality
Thursday, December 26th, 2024
The perception of a worsening cost of living, combined with seeing Canada as significantly more unequal, is creating a perfect storm for a deteriorating sense of control in everyday life… This is a worrying trend for our collective psychological well-being. The most powerless people tend to be the most distressed and distrustful of others — two indicators that reflect the daily sense of alarm, hopelessness and suspicion that powerless Canadians may feel when thinking of the economy.
Tags: economy, ideology
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I’ve dated a billionaire and lived on minimum wage. This is the one, radical solution to the inequalities I’ve seen
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
Our economic system was born of the false premise that if the wealthy are prioritized in government policies, their wealth will trickle down to the poor. Since 2020, the world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes. Recently, the CBC reported that “income inequality in Canada (had) hit the highest level ever recorded.”… Minimum wage increases have little impact in a system that enables and perpetuates kleptocracy.
Tags: poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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Pierre Poilievre’s vision for Canada: Heaven for the very rich and squat for everyone else
Friday, June 14th, 2024
… the real redistribution in recent years hasn’t been the small bit directed toward benefits for ordinary Canadians but rather the gush of money toward the wealthiest Canadians. In 2021, the richest .01 per cent saw their incomes grow on average by a stunning 30 per cent to $12.5 million a year, while the incomes of 14 million working Canadians actually declined, according to Statistics Canada.
Tags: budget, standard of living, tax
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Inside the Campaign to Kill a Step Toward Tax Fairness
Monday, June 10th, 2024
… interest groups don’t have to offer an alternative and can just snipe at proposals that they dislike. The capital gains change is expected to bring in more than $19 billion over the next five years. Anti-tax groups don’t need to explain where that money should come from, or what services should be cut if the tax is axed… But the process is a warning about the powerful forces that will battle any move to increase tax fairness, if it means the rich will pay more.
Tags: budget, ideology, tax
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Canada is bad at studying wealth inequality and we explain why that matters
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Canada’s top 1 per cent owns 26 per cent of all wealth in Canada, and our top .01 per cent owns 12.4 per cent of all wealth. This is somewhat lower than the U.S. numbers, but it is much higher than official Statistics Canada numbers report… But looking only at income paints an incomplete picture because it ignores intergenerational wealth that has been inherited… wealth — or its absence — can be more important to the lives of individuals, as well as to broader social cohesion.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, tax
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Swelling CEO salaries highlight income inequality
Monday, January 22nd, 2024
The average worker received an average wage increase of three per cent in 2022 while prices rose by more than twice that amount… The financial disconnect between CEOs and the employees who work for them underscores broader issues of income inequality and affordability. We need quality research and robust debate on how to address income inequality and stagnating wages for those not privileged to work in the c-suites.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living
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Canadian CEO pay breaks all records, reflecting a new Gilded Age for Canada’s rich: report
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
In 2022, the average worker in Canada got an average pay raise of $1,800, or three per cent. But, prices went up by 6.8 per cent in 2022… This report proposes that governments address the rampant income inequality between the rich and the rest of us through four taxation measures that both disincentivize extreme CEO compensation and redistribute CEOs’ extreme income to Canadians on the lower end of the income spectrum.
Tags: economy, standard of living, tax
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