Canada's wealth gap appeared to narrow between 2019 and 2023. Huh? @danskilleter.bsky.social finds that the dip was largely a mirage, driven by a pandemic housing boom that temporarily inflated the one asset ordinary Canadians hold: their home. 📰 Read the article: tinyurl.com/SCPideas #CdnPoli

Centre-left ideology in Canada and the US is actually a vibrant, diverse space. I wrote about how I've been making sense of it. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Mapping the Economic Centre-Left

Taxonomizing contemporary ideological camps

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🚨New video🚨 As Canadians, we like to think we’re strong and free. But, when it comes to the wealth gap, we’re looking more like America Lite—better manners, but almost all the inequality. #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #Wealth #EconSky

Today's meeting with @jonshell.bsky.social , chair of @scpartners.bsky.social , @danskilleter.bsky.social, Gene Chartier, Taylor Seek hon, and Lee Chitiz, all representing Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), was productive and insightful. #employeeownershiptrusts

GDP per capita is a deeply flawed measurement for evaluating rich countries and is easily influenced by factors that have zilch to do with economic well-being. How's 🍁economy? New research shows it's about the same as Germany, the UK and Aus. Read more at: tinyurl.com/4bjdyccb

Nice to see Premier Kinew leaning into competition issues. The Competition Bureau can only do so much. Some of the really awful behaviour taking place in sectors is easier to deal with provincially given what they already have powers over. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The UK stats on employee ownership keep impressing year after year with no sign of slowing down. When you make selling to your employees economically viable, it - unsurprisingly - turns out to be a pretty popular option.

Well, however understated these wealth figures are they can serve as a useful basis for creating new wealth concentration figures (top 0.1%) - like the PBO has undertaken previously. StatsCan still shows no interest in doing this work themselves. macleans.ca/society/cana...

Canada’s Richest People - Macleans.ca

An extensively researched ranking of the country’s wealthiest grocers, tech giants, developers, investors and other mega moguls

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Find us and other Canadian economics and policy thinkers in this @chrisferris3.bsky.social starter pack. 👇 go.bsky.app/Q3ZVY1a #econsky #cdnpoli