Canada’s poor took big financial hit in recent years, report finds
Janet McFarland / The Globe and Mail
The poorest 10 per cent of Canadians saw their net worth fall by 150 per cent between 2005 and 2012 while Canada’s richest 10 per cent saw a huge increase in their net worth in the same period, a new report shows.
Read moreCanada's Wealth Gap Is Growing As Poor Get More In Debt: Report
Daniel Tencer / Huffington Post
Those rosy reports about Canadians’ net worth growing and the country's middle class being among the richest in the worldare masking growing inequality in the country, according to a new report.
Read moreRichest tenth of B.C. families has half of province's wealth: report
Chad Skelton / Vancouver Sun
The richest 10 per cent of B.C. families has more than half of the province’s wealth, according to a new report from the left-leaning Broadbent Institute.
Read moreIndigenous workers in Canada: new data points to steep unemployment
Labour market data in Canada is easily available by sex, age, and region. We spend a great deal of time talking about these factors. More recently, Statistics Canada made labour market data available on CANSIM by landed immigrant status, going back to 2006. This factor is included less often in most labour market analysis, and too few know that it is even available.
But if you want to know how racialized workers or Indigenous workers (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples) are doing in the labour force, you basically have to rely on the census … oh, wait. And on top of eliminating the census, the Harper government shut down the First Nations Statistical Institute.
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