Why taxing pollution deserves serious discussion
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his party have recently attempted to demonize Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair for his alleged advocacy of a “job-killing carbon tax.” As has been widely noted,...
Colleen Davison: Adding Nuance to our Discussions of Inequalities in Canada: Urban-Rural Health Differences
If you woke up this morning and put your feet on the floor in Moosenee, Iona, Bella Coola or Longlac, then the chances are that your health is poorer than...
Peter Graefe: Fitting Federal Equality into a More Equal Canada
Any project for social and economic equality in Canada faces a challenge: our primary collective lever for change, the state, is a confusing and complicated machine of federal-provincial relationships. Most...
Daniel Wilson: Income Inequality and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Canadians are awakening to the fact that income inequality is a seriously problematic trend that marginalizes large segments of society and threatens social harmony and progress. However, for Indigenous people,...
Frank Cunningham: Some Thoughts Inspired by “Toward a More Equal Canada”
Towards a More Equal Canada nicely summarizes three recent discussions about equality: the question of why people should endorse egalitarian policies, or, as I would prefer to put it, why they...
Kate Parizeau: Urban inequality in Canada
Inequality is often described as differential status among individuals or groups. However, places can be unequal too. Canada’s cities are sites of growing urban inequality, and it is entire neighbourhoods...
Next Up Ottawa call-out for applications
Do you wonder what the future holds for the world? Are you concerned about things like climate change, poverty, public health and education, housing and government policy? Do you believe that global...
Leah Levac: Equitable Participation in Policy-Making
Many of the growing social and economic inequalities visible in Canada today are rooted in, or enabled by, inequitable public policies. The impacts of policies on diverse groups of people...
Miles Corak: Inequality and life chances
While it is now only just over a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement began to draw attention to the wide and growing gulf between the 1% and the...
Stephen Harper's Monty Python moment
What have the unions ever done for us? In the past few months, I have heard a number of right-wing figures publicly question the value of unions in our society,...
