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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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Time to hit the rich with a wealth tax
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
… in their budget last March, the Liberals proclaimed they were “ensuring the wealthiest Canadians pay their fair share,” as they brought in income tax changes that will raise another $525 million a year from high-income earners. But these changes will have little impact on the wealthiest Canadians, who are largely able to avoid income taxes. To tax the truly wealthy – and only them — a wealth tax is far more effective… A wealth tax would apply exclusively to those with net assets of more than $10 million…
Tags: economy, ideology, tax
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Alternative Federal Budget 2024 – Building Momentum: A budget for now and the future
Monday, August 28th, 2023
The AFB will tax extreme wealth by introducing a progressive wealth tax… restore the corporate income tax rate… to 20 per cent… [and] implement a windfall profits tax… Canadians really can have nice things – if we make our tax system more progressive and make smart investments in public services, income supports, and social and physical infrastructure.
Tags: child care, featured, Health, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Black Canadians suffer racism in the justice system. Efforts are needed to address it.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
To be sure, the police aren’t alone in their disparate treatment of Black Canadians and other racial minorities. Police are, inevitably, singled out given their role on the front line of the justice system… racial bias is a systemic problem. And rectifying that will require not just apologies, but a concerted, thoroughgoing effort to eradicate the racism that threatens the very ideals animating and inspiring our system, and our society.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism
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Why this court ruling is a human-rights victory for international students
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
By determining that unfair treatment based on permanent residency is a form of discrimination on the basis of citizenship, the Court of Appeal established human-rights protection for international students under the Code… international students should know that they are not alone in their fight against discrimination — and that “citizenship” may not be the insurmountable job-qualification criterion it used to be.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, participation, rights
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Women in politics: To run or not to run?
Monday, March 20th, 2023
Research on women in politics has identified multiple obstacles that hinder women’s representation, with three factors emerging as the most prominent explanations… that voters might have gender bias… that women may not be interested to run as candidates… [or that] parties tend to choose men over women… the underrepresentation of women in politics is not due to a shortage of qualified women candidates or voter bias against women candidates.
Tags: participation, women
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Canada’s Gender Pandemic Response: Did it Measure Up?
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Canada introduced unprecedented relief measures in the early days of the pandemic to offset the huge losses resulting from necessary public health closures. Looking back, how did those measures stack up? Did they address the pandemic’s heavy toll on women and other marginalized communities? … The imperative now is to apply the lessons of COVID-19 in service of a more sustainable, resilient and gender-just future…
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, poverty, women
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How much progress have women made in the workplace? 46 facts to mark 46 years of International Women’s Day
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Average annual employment income of Canadian women: $39,900; Average annual employment income of Canadian men: $54,300; … Percentage of women in the House of Commons: 30; … Percentage of women in federal cabinet: 46; … Percentage of women in the Ontario cabinet: 26; … Number of economists Forbes magazine says are redefining everything: Five; Percentage of those economists who are women: 100
Tags: featured, participation, standard of living, women
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Canadian university faculty getting older, more female compared to 50 years ago: StatCan
Monday, January 30th, 2023
Moving through the ranks, women achieved gender parity at the assistant professor level in the 2017-18 academic year. In 2021-22, women made up 51 per cent of assistant professors in Canada. The proportion of women as associate professors reached 44.3 per cent in 2021-22, five times more compared to 50 years ago. While nearly 10 times greater compared to 1971-72, the largest gender gap still exists among full professors, where 31.4 per cent are women.
Tags: participation, women
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‘The rich and everybody else’: Financial inequality in Canada keeps growing
Thursday, January 26th, 2023
Fifty per cent of households are earning less than $16,000 to $17,000. That’s even after taxes and transfers and benefits. That gap between the 50 per cent of the population, roughly 8 million people or more, and that top 1 per cent of earners, a very small slice of the working population, is huge. And it’s growing bigger… Capitalism and democracy have always been in contestation. People want votes. People want rights. And they see that, usually, they can’t get them, because there’s a whole bunch of rich people who aren’t willing to do it.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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