Ottawa – May 22, 2014 – Most Western industrialized nations belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which represents the world’s richest economies. A recent OECD report finds that income inequality within these countries has significantly increased during the past three decades.
Toronto – May 9, 2014 – Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase of wealth in this country. However, the vast majority of the new wealth generated by the economy has increasingly gone to a tiny proportion of the population – the Wealthy 86. They are the richest 86 people in the country, and they control a third of all the wealth in Canada.
Toronto — March 14, 2014 — Meat production has increasingly become a highly centralized and mechanized industry. Only a handful of companies now own and control the vast majority of world meat production. At the same time, people living in the West continue to consume significantly higher volumes of meat than the rest of the world.
Ottawa – March 2, 2014 – A new report by the U.S. government paints an interesting picture of the relationship between factory labour costs and jobless levels, when viewed alongside unemployment rates.
Ottawa – January 30, 2014 – A recent report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) recommended the Ontario minimum wage be increased to $14.50 an hour by 2016 which would be 60% of the average industrial wage and would set the minimum wage as a living wage.
Ottawa – January 16, 2014 – The National Household Survey, which replaced the mandatory long-form Census in 2011, was released by Statistics Canada in three waves throughout 2013 and reveals a striking snapshot of Canadian life.
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