Policy
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 NEW! The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada |
There are more billionaires than ever in Canada – and they are capturing an ever-growing share of the country’s wealth. Meanwhile 90% of Canadians are steadily losing ground. … | 288 | View | ||
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From  The TPP and Health Care |
Explores the implications of the TPP for public health care resulting from the agreement’s provisions on intellectual property, services and investment. | Scott Sinclair | 26 | 2016 | $2.60 Add |
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and CanadaA Citizen's Guide |
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, with its twelve participating countries on three continents, is the largest regional trade and investment agreement that Canada has ever negotiated. It is also one … | 216 | View | ||
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From  Twenty Years Ago Today, and the Band Still PlaysFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
In the concluding chapter, Pitt checks in with the cast of characters that catapulted New Brunswick’s tech industry onto the world stage. | Gordon Pitts | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
Unicorn in the Woods |
As tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1 billion), acclaimed business journalist Gordon Pitts asks whether there can be a place for high-tech … | Gordon Pitts | 264 | 2020 | View |
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From  Uniting the "I" and the "We" Affordable Housing in PerpetuityFrom: Resilience Imperative |
The unprecedented financial, economic, and social fallout from the credit crunch presents governments with a structural set of problems when it comes to housing. A steep decline in prices in many … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 28 | 2012 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Web GiantsFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter explores solutions for taxing massive online corporations, who have hisotrically proved … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From Whale Hunting on the New York ThruwayFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter details Pitt’s visits to startup incubators in the United States, and explores several nascent companies with the potential to garner a billion-dollar valuation. | Gordon Pitts | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  What to Do? |
Policy proposals to address increasing inequality in Canada. A Carbon Fee and Dividend could both reduce cardon diozide emissions and lessen inequality. As robots increasingly make the robots … | Lars Osberg | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! What to do? |
In this chapter, the author examines various courses of action and policies that could be taken to address economic inequality in Canada. | Lars Osberg | 35 | 2024 | $3.50 Add |
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From What We Could Build, and How We Can Address InequalityFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 3 of this title explore the disticition between income inequality and wealth inequaltiy and methods for building shared wealth for Canadians. This reading explores what Canada … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  What We KnowFrom: Legalizing Theft |
Alain Deneault | 25 | 2018 | $2.50 Add | |
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From What’s Been Happening to Canada’s Middle Class? |
Historically, Canada’s middle class has expected increasing prosperity from one generation to the next. Real hourly wages did grow strongly until 1981, when inflation control became the … | Lars Osberg | 29 | 2018 | $2.90 Add |
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From NEW! What’s been happening to Canada’s middle class? |
In this chapter the author looks at the stagnation of middle class incomes in Canada over the past few decades. | Lars Osberg | 31 | 2024 | $3.10 Add |
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From Who Says It’s LegalFrom: Legalizing Theft |
Alain Deneault | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add | |
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From NEW! Why do economic inequalities matter? |
In this chapter, the author asks why economic inequality matters in early twenty-first-century Canada. | Lars Osberg | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |
