Canada
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Part OneFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence examines how Canada’s six federally chartered banks overcharge consumers and underserve small and medium-sized businesses. | Andrew Spence | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From Part SevenFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence traces Canadian banking consolidation, from the founding of the Canada Banking Company in 1792 to the present-day dominance of the "big six" institutions. | Andrew Spence | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From Part TwoFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence examines the structure and performance of the Canadian banking system, arguing that its concentrated market grants a few large institutions outsized power over rates and fees. | Andrew Spence | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Peter Lougheed and the Rise of the Oil SandsFrom: Oi's Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … | Kevin Taft | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Plutocracy Awaits UsFrom: Canada after Harper |
Linda McQuaig tells us how the inequality generated by “free market” policies has widened the gap between Canada’s ultra-rich and most other Canadians. | Linda McQuaig | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Poverty and Inequality |
In this chapter, the author details how incomes at the bottom of the income distribution scale have dramatically eroded in Canada in recent years. | Lars Osberg | 29 | 2024 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Preface |
John S. Tyhurst | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add | |
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From  Selling Radian6From: Unicorn in the Woods |
In this chapter, Pitts outlines the sale of Radian6 to Salesforce, a fast-growing company based on the West Coast. This led to a financial windfall for all involved. | Gordon Pitts | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
 Share the Wealth!How we can tax Canada’s super-rich and create a better country for everyone |
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, millions of Canadians suddenly found themselves out of work as businesses shuttered and the country went into lockdown. While many were struggling to … | 208 | View | ||
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From NEW! Table of Cases |
John S. Tyhurst | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add | |
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From Tackling Tax HavensFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter discusses the challenges surrounding the regulation of offshore tax havens and the powers … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From Tax CutsPart of the Problem, Not the Solution From: Canada after Harper |
Trish Hennessy relates how the obsession with tax cuts promoted by neoliberal governments has served as a convenient excuse for slashing social programs. | Trish Hennessy | 15 | 2015 | $1.50 Add |
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From Taxing Individual WealthFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter explores methods for taxing individual wealth, including examples of countries where this … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
 The Age of Increasing InequalityThe Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% |
For 35 years, Canada has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. It proposes meaningful steps … | 248 | View | ||
 The Big FixHow Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians |
More and more of the Canadian economy is dominated by a handful of huge companies that control what we buy, how we work, and which other businesses can or can’t thrive. Beyond the obvious … | Denise Hearn; Vass Bednar | 141 | 2024 | View |
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From  The Big ShiftFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses the urgent need to shift from carbon intensive activities in three sectors: energy (bitumen to be declared a "sunset" industry), transportation (to shift from private internal … | Tony Clarke | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
