How Long?
http://www.businessinsider.com/In the wake of Justin Trudeau's trip to Davos, Gerry Caplan a...
Canadian Inequality
2015: Year in review
As 2015 comes to a close, here’s a podcast and a post that’s something in between a best of and a year in review. It’s a look back at…
Stunning Inequality
http://rabble.ca/ The Broadbent Institute has just released a study on the distribution of wealth in Canada. Rick Smith, the institute’s director, writes: While the growing income share of the richest…
Sleeping Through The Drama
Thomas Picketty’s new book, Capital In The 21st Century, is generating a flurry of interest south of the border. Paul Krugman has praised the book’s scholarship and its conclusion that…
Inequality Keeps Them In Power
Everyone complains about public apathy. We know that democracy in Canada is in trouble. But nothing seems to change. Alex Himelfarb suggests that the reason things don’t change is because…
A Striking Universe
That's the title of a recent paper by Jordan Brennan of George Brown College. Tom Walkom writes in today's Toronto Star that:Brennan’s paper is a critique not only of the…
It’s No Longer a Gap, It’s a Chasm
Carol Goar, in today’s Toronto Star, writes that two recent reports highlight the new solitudes in Canadian society. One report comes from the Toronto Dominion Bank, the other from Food…