Canada's reputation as a fair and equal society is in tatters.
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Greater equality is better for everyone: Richard Wilkinson
Call it Unequal Canada -- the national tour. British professor and epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson has packed his first visit to Canada with public meetings, and private sessions with senior government officials and community leaders. His message is powerful, yet simple: Greater equality is better for everyone.
"It's not just the poor, but everyone is worse off in unequal societies," said Canadian statesman Ed Broadbent as he introduced Wilkinson for his sold-out Toronto presentation on Dec. 10. "More equality, not more growth, matters."
Zach Wahls speaks about his family as Iowa House of Representatives attempt to ban gay civil unions
Zach Wahls, a 19-year-old University of Iowa student, spoke about the strength of his family during a public forum on House Joint Resolution 6 in the Iowa House of Representatives. Wahls has two mothers, and came to oppose House Joint Resolution 6 which would end civil unions in Iowa.
The fight to to keep marriage equality in Iowa continues, help us support Iowans like Zach.
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(In)Equality Matters: Social justice and the economy
Toronto! Incensed by skyrocketing corporate profits and plummeting average incomes? Think wealthy Canadians and corporations should contribute more to public goods and services? Why aren't they? What can we do about it?
Watch the rebroadcast of the Inter Pares and Canadians for Tax Fairness discussion on how to foster economic equality.
Jean Symes from Inter Pares, Armine Yalnizyan, one of Canada's leading progressive economists, and Dr. Yao Graham, renowned African activist and coordinator of Third World Network-Africa, speak about examples of deepening economic inequality they see in communities worldwide, and what we can do about it.
FAIR Ontario: This is a group issue, for all of us
Ontario has one of the world's largest gender pay gaps: 29% We need to start thinking of this as a group issue, one that crosses the lines of gender, class, ethnicity, etc. Together we can demand political leadership to close the pay gap. Thanks to http://genwhymedia.ca/ for their amazing work on the video and Aidan Knight for the music http://aidanknight.com/.
Something else, something fierce
Apr 16 2011 - 8:00pm
Apr 16 2011 - 10:00pm
Location
W2 Storyeum
151 W Cordova
Vancouver, BC Canada
49° 17' 0.1104" N, 123° 6' 28.1268" W
See map: Google Maps
The National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) is proud to present its first-ever benefit concert: Something Else, Something Fierce, featuring an almost all-female Filipino Canadian line-up of celebrated and emerging artists.
Proceeds from the concert will enable the NAPWC to advance its mandate for genuine equality and development for Filipino Canadian women. Beyond breaking stereotypes that Filipino women are servile, domesticated women, the NAPWC develops national programs that enhance the community's political and social involvement in Canada through community-based research projects and political advocacy.
Economics, Equality and Democracy
Apr 4 2011 - 7:00pm
Location
The Gardiner Museum
111 Queen's Park
TorontoCanada
43° 40' 4.9836" N, 79° 23' 37.6692" W
See map: Google Maps
Come to a public discussion on April 4th with Armine Yalnizyan, a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. She will be speaking about the problem of increasing income inequality in Canada. This is the latest free event in the LRC's new speaker series at the Gardiner Museum, and we're happy to be presenting it in partnership with TVO's Big Ideas, who will be videotaping the talk and subsequent Q&A for broadcast/webcast.
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