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Towards a Better Understanding of Income Inequality in Canada
In recent years, income inequality has become one of the most animating—and unfortunately most misunderstood—economic and social issues of our time. Sparked by the 2008-09 recession, the well-deserved backlash against corporate bailouts, the Occupy Wall ...
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Canada’s Aging Population and Implications for Government Finances
Despite broad public awareness that our society is aging, very little has been done by governments across the country to prepare for the marked aging that has already begun. This study examines the fiscal pressures, specifically the demand for greater ...
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Energy Costs and Canadian Households: How Much Are We Spending?
Energy is the basis of our modern lives. It fuels our economy, generating the economic production that underpins the high living standards Canadian households have achieved. But energy costs have been rising for Canadians in recent years, potentially ...
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Financial Savings: Restructuring Education in Ontario Using the British Columbia Model
Almost one-fifth (18.7 percent) of Ontario’s budget is spent on JK-12 education. With recurring deficits—the most recent ($11.3 billion) amounting to almost half the entire public JK-12 budget ($23.8 billion in 2013/14)—and provincial net debt of $269.3 ...