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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
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living
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How globalization has left the 1 per cent even further ahead
The threshold to reach the top 1 per cent in 2010 was $201,400, while the median income in the middle of the 1-per-cent pack was $283,400 and the average income of 1 per centers was $429,600… The vast majority of those in the 1 per cent – 88 per cent – work in five broad occupation groups: management (39 per cent), health care (14 per cent); business and finance (14 per cent); education, law, community and government service (11 per cent) and natural and applied sciences (10 per cent).
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Inequality, the byproduct of progress
… incomes are hardly the only measure of our quality of life. First-rate public education and health care mean that Canadians, regardless of income, are relatively more equal than almost any people in the world. Most of the goods and services we buy are relatively cheaper and more reliable than ever. In general, our lives are richer, even when our pay stubs seem smaller. What most often gets omitted in discussions about growing income inequality within rich countries, however, is the extraordinary and corresponding increase in global living standards.
Tags: globalization, poverty, standard of living
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A Canadian genocide in search of a name
It is time for Canadians to face the sad truth. Canada engaged in a deliberate policy of attempted genocide against First Nations people. And the starvation experiments were only the first of a litany of similar such attempts to control, delegitimize and, yes, even annihilate First Nations to suit the needs of a growing Dominion… a genocide that began at the time of first contact and that was still very active in our own lifetimes; a genocide… no longer in search of historical facts.
Tags: child care, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Placing #IdleNoMore in Historical Context
Jan. 4, 2012
#IdleNoMore is an explicitly non-violent movement, which accounts for its relatively wide spectrum of both Native and non-Native support at the moment… However, if the life of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence continues to be recklessly put in jeopardy… I predict that the spectre of political violence will re-emerge in Indigenous peoples’ collective conversations about what to do next.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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