Tim Harper / The Toronto Star
New Democrats turned to Tom Mulcair because they could see power finally visible over the next hill. He was the man who could take them there.
Jack Layton had left the party of conscience with the chance to govern, but the last step would be gargantuan.
Now, as Mulcair closes in on three years as Opposition leader, you can hear whispers from within the party comparing him unfavourably to the late party icon....
David Foot and Daniel Stoffman / The Globe and Mail
It’s rare for a book on economics to become a bestseller. It’s even rarer for a book by a hitherto unknown economist to reset the discussion among economists and policy-makers over a vitally important economic issue. But that’s what French economist Thomas Piketty did with the publication earlier this year of his 700-page tome, Capital in the Twenty-first...
Daniel Tencer / Huffington Post Canada
Canadians “vastly underestimate” the extent of wealth inequality in Canada, but would still like to see a much more equal society, according to research carried out for the left-leaning Broadbent Institute.
The survey of 3,000 respondents found Canadians believe the richest 20 per cent control about 55.5 per cent of Canada’s wealth. In reality,...
Kate Robertson / NOW Magazine
A new video by the Broadbent Institute shows that Canadians would be surprised at how big the gap really is between the rich and poor in this country.
“Canada is much more unequal than Canadians think it is and a far cry from what they think it should be. That holds true for people of all political stripes, including Conservative voters,” said Rick Smith, executive director of the Broadbent Institute, in a press release.
From a survey of 3,000...
Sara Mojtehedzadeh / The Toronto Star
Canadians drastically underestimate the country’s wealth gap but still show broad support for policies such as higher income taxes to address the problem, according to new research by an Ottawa-based think tank.
The study, published Tuesday by the Broadbent Institute, drew its results from an online poll of 3,000 people.
...David Akin / QMI
OTTAWA — They're richer than we think.
A new poll from the progressive think-tank The Broadbent Institute concludes that Canadians do not have an accurate picture of the difference between the amount of wealth controlled by the country's richest people and the amount controlled by the poorest.
The Broadbent Institute, named in honour of former NDP leader Ed Broadbent, uses the data to argue that the "wealth gap" can be closed by increasing taxes on the rich,...
Jeremy J. Nuttall, The Tyee
Canadians are unaware of the size of the growing wealth gap in the country, a new report from the Broadbent Institute says.
The report is to be released today along with a YouTube video narrated by Ed Broadbent, the former federal New Democrat leader for whom the research institute is named.
The...
Although the majority of Canadians are concerned about wealth inequality in Canada, a new report says they’re also underestimating the sizable gap between the rich and the poor.
The Broadbent Institute asked 3,000 Canadians how they think wealth should, ideally, be distributed in Canada and the results were fairly evenly allotted with the richest 20 per cent holding 30 per cent of the wealth. In that ideal,...
Ed Broadbent / The Globe and Mail
Twenty-five years ago, on Nov. 24, 1989, I stood in the House of Commons and moved a motion to abolish the scourge of child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.
I was optimistic. The 11-year timetable was realistic, the goal reachable. And politicians seemed prepared to act. Prime minister Brian Mulroney and Liberal leader John Turner strongly supported the resolution and it passed unanimously.
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