Income inequality in Canada has hit the highest level ever recorded as wealth becomes increasingly concentrated in fewer hands, says Canada's statistics agency. The gap in the share of disposable ...

One recent set of inequality data comes from Statistics Canada’s Distributions of Household Economic Accounts. The latest numbers show a near-record gap in the share of disposable income — 46. ...

If Canada allows inequality to rise unchecked, it risks ending up where hundreds or ancient societies have: plagued by widespread unrest, violence and even complete collapse.

His central theme is that inequality threatens economic growth ... total income (earnings plus government transfers) or after-tax income. Canada’s real problem regarding high-earners is that we do not ...

Related to this is the extraordinary pace at which wealth inequality is growing in Canada. In short, the rich are getting richer, middle-income people are getting poorer, and the already poor ...

That skews the distribution of income toward inequality. But they don’t earn only because ... I wrote columns back then about the “iron law of equality” in Canada: no matter what happened to ...

In places like Oakville, which ranked 10th in Canada for income inequality, residents “become socially isolated among people like themselves,” said Ivan Townshend, a social geographer at the ...

But under conditions of exploding income inequality ... for a way to overturn the horrendous levels of social inequality and poverty in Canada. The report hails the “value of Canadian labour ...

Income inequality, known for its corrosive effects on health, happiness and community ties, is worse in Toronto and four other GTA municipalities than in most places in Canada, according to a new ...

Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked – but a new study from Drexel University has taken a ...

Income inequality in Canada has hit the highest level ever recorded as wealth becomes increasingly concentrated in fewer hands, says Canada's statistics agency. The gap in the share of disposable ...