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Barbara Turnbull set an inspiring example
… after the 1983 convenience store shooting that left her paralyzed below the neck and confined to a wheelchair. Simply by living as she did, she set an example for people living with disabilities, and for everyone else… She lent her name, her story and her energy to raising money for research into spinal cord injuries. And she campaigned publicly, often in the face of misunderstanding and even hostility, in favour of equal access for all.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Inequality and Canadian politics
Economic inequalities have grown over the last 10 years… Declining marginal tax rates have certainly had some role… but this is not the principal place where government has allowed inequality to increase. Instead, post-transfer inequality has increased principally because government is transferring less to poor citizens. The problem is then not too little government spending or even too little taxing, but the wrong spending.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Robert Reich and the fight against inequality
… the three-decade span between the late 1940s and the late 1970s — was characterized by high rates of taxation on the wealthy; heavy government investment in the people; and the peak level of unionization in America’s private-sector workforce.
In… Inequality for All , Reich offers a personal narrative of the causes and ills of income inequality. The film is a blueprint of the practical steps by which North America can correct the economically and socially debilitating tilt toward the wealthy.
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Canadian pay inequality gap getting harder to close
Canada lacks good, regular data, but the best available evidence… shows that wealth is not only distributed very unequally among individuals and families, but also that wealth inequality has been rising since the 1970s… Over the past decade or so, much of the broad middle class have seen their wealth boosted by rising housing prices, while the value of financial assets held mainly by the very affluent has fluctuated much more… their share is likely to rise even higher if the housing market begins to falter.
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Thomas Piketty’s body blow to conventional economic wisdom
He does not begin by enunciating an abstract theory and then testing it. Rather, he collects a mass of information – the megadata of history of many countries from many sources – graphs it, and looks for patterns. In fact, they virtually leap off the page… in a world where economics has become a veritable servant of power, this could be his greatest contribution.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Alan Borovoy: a troublemaker who made history
… as general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association… [At the Barricades] sums up the lessons he has learned, tots up the costs and rewards of speaking out against authority and examines the hurt he caused — and felt — when his principles compelled him to defend widely reviled figures such as neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel and anti-Semite schoolteacher Jim Keegstra in their fights against censorship.
Tags: multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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America’s Taxation Tradition
… in the early 20th century, many leading Americans warned about the dangers of extreme wealth concentration, and urged that tax policy be used to limit the growth of great fortunes… America was in danger of turning into a society dominated by hereditary wealth… the New World was at risk of turning into Old Europe… public policy should seek to limit inequality for political as well as economic reasons, that great wealth posed a danger to democracy.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Searing stories at residential-school hearings come to a close
The heart-breaking accounts – almost all videotaped – will now form part of a lasting record of one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history… For many, being able to tell their stories was at once cathartic and a validation… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under Justice Murray Sinclair, visited more than 300 communities after it began hearings in Winnipeg in June 2010.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Alan Borovoy, the man who was right
Over the course of the past few decades’ most divisive and closely contested struggles for civil rights and social justice in Canada… Alan Borovoy, best known for his 40-year role as general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association… [has published] a surprisingly elegant cross-genre fusion of legal history, political analysis and riveting memoir…
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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The Wealth of Canadians: How much, in the hands of how few?
… wealth was generally much more equally distributed by the mid-20th century than it had been in the pre-industrial era and the late 19th century. The share of all wealth held by the top 10 per cent in rich countries is typically very high, at 60 to 70 per cent, but this is still well below late-19th-century levels of 80 to 90 per cent… the rising ratio of wealth to GDP, combined with increasing inequality in the distribution of wealth since about 1970, may bring us back to the extreme economic inequality of the Victorian era
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