A public talk by Linda McQuaig, co-author with Neil Brooks of The Trouble with Billionaires, on "Why too much money at the top is bad for the 99%".

The presentation will be followed by a reception with cash bar to celebrate the release of the paperback edition of the book, The Trouble with Billionaires, which reached #3 on The Globe and Mail bestseller list for paperback non-fiction.

Free admission and free parking behind the building.

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Join us at this free event to hear from award winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig, with tax law professor and author Neil Brooks: an eye-opening and provocative discussion about the damage extreme wealth causes to equality and a healthy, functioning society.

Co-sponsored by the CCPA-BC, Penguin Books and Vancouver Public Library.

The Trouble with Billionaires, with Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

In the last few decades, the concentration of income in the United States, Britain and Canada has reached levels not seen since the late 1920s. Such extreme income concentration created a dynamic that led to the disastrous Wall Street crash in 2008 -- just as it did in 1929.