Introducing our first Broadbent Fellow: Brendan Haley
At the Broadbent Institute, we’re working hard to develop cutting-edge ideas for a more equal Canada. At the core of this project, we need a robust discussion about the kind...
Ahead of 2013 budget, Flaherty should be serious about investing in public infrastructure
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is said to be considering extending funding for public infrastructure investment in his forthcoming budget, as urged by the Official Opposition, the provinces and municipalities. Let’s...
Federal Government Must Ensure Citizens Have Equal Access to Services
Canada is one of the most decentralized federations in the world. Public services (notably health, education at all levels, social services such as elder care, and local services) are delivered...
Getting the facts straight: EI changes hurt unemployed workers
In the last federal budget (Chapter 3.3), the federal government tried to sell its changes to Employment Insurance by describing how some hypothetical workers would benefit. Unfortunately, the scenarios they...
How more tax on the super-rich will help ease income inequality
Congratulations to Statistics Canada for providing an update on top incomes in Canada, and for launching two new CANSIM tables allowing researchers to dig into the details. While the income...
David McNally: Addressing Inequality by Rebuilding the Labour Movement
While growing social inequality is the product of a multi-pronged economic, political and cultural offensive by corporate power across the neoliberal era, the systematic weakening of trade unions looms especially...
Andrew Jackson: The Distribution of Wealth: Implications for the Neo Liberal Justification for Economic Inequality
Nobel Prize winning economist and political theorist Amartya Sen points out that “every normative theory of social arrangements that has at all stood the test of time seems to demand...
Why there is little satisfaction to be found in Canadian manufacturing
On January 16, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a study by former Statistics Canada analyst Philip Cross, entitled “Dutch Disease, Canadian Cure.” It argues that “after 10 years of a muscular...
Martha Friendly: Why high-quality universal child care is part of a more equal Canada for all of us
If anything positive has emerged from Canada's rising inequality, it is that a bona fide discussion about "the Canada we want" is becoming a mainstream staple of political dialogue. Not...
John Stapleton: A Ball Player, a Cop, a Janitor, and a Welfare Recipient
To whom do we compare ourselves when we think about reducing inequality? On June 6, 2012, former Toronto mayor John Sewell and conservative MPP Peter Shurman had the following exchange...
