Edmonton-Leduc NDP: PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS THERE A REMEDY?

Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive)

Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that it is only becoming worse. Since the 1970s, the top 10% of Canadians by personal wealth at least doubled their share of all wealth. In the same period, the income of most Canadians has remained practically the same, or even shrunk, leading to an increase in the level of poverty in our communities: 10% of all Canadians today live in poverty. This is not simply a statistic. This is the everyday reality for millions of people in our country. Do you have anything to say about this? Would you like to hear other people’s opinions on ways Canada can resolve the gap between the wealthy few and the struggling many? Please join us for our first Round Table of 2012!


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Black Friday and other deadly things.

How stupid, gullible and greedy can people get? A man was reportedly detained for resisting arrest after a fight at the jewellery counter in the early hours at a Walmart in Kissimmee, Florida  Police are looking for two suspects after gunfire erupted early on Friday at a shopping centre in

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Ethical asbestos

A child’s plea to Stephen Harper obtains the expected result. Cavanagh Matmor has a message for Prime Minister Stephen Harper: The sixth-grader didn’t appreciate Harper’s “cut-and-paste reply” to her emotional letter pleading with him to end the government’s support for the asbestos industry. … “They don’t know how it feels

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