The cost of debt culture.
Hennessey's Index
Canada vs. the OECD
Canada and its place in the world.
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A number is never just a number: What price, austerity?
$11.8 billion
Estimated federal government spending cuts by 2014-15, due to the last three austerity budgets. (Source - Numbers in that blog are drawn from the Federal Budget 2013, pg. 298)
90,000
Estimated job losses in both the public and private sector by 2014-15, as a result of a succession of federal government austerity budget decisions. (Source)
3.2 per cent
A number is never just a number: Canada's gender pay gap
32
Percentage, on average, that women earn less than men in Canada. That means that on average, a woman makes only 68 cents for every dollar a man makes. It varies by province. For instance, in Ontario it's 28 per cent. (Source)
15
Number of additional years that a Canadian woman would have to work at no pay in order to earn the same pay a man earns by age 65, at the current rate of progress. It varies by province. In Ontario, that number would be 13 extra years. (Source)
62
A number is never just a number: What is middle class?
0
Agreement among economists on what constitutes Canada's middle class. It varies based on whether you look at family or individual income, provincial or national data, before or after tax. Here we look at median and total family income to get a sense of the range.
$69,860
The median total income for all Canadian families. That's the dead centre of all family total income earned in Canada in 2010, meaning half earned more than $69,860 and half earned less. (Source)
$60,000 - $85,000
A number is never just a number: The dominance of Canada's 1%
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$201,400
The entry point to become one of Canada's richest 1% of income earners. In other words, if you make more than $201,400 you earn more than 99% of Canadian income earners. (Source)
254,700
Number of tax filers who ranked among Canada's richest 1% in 2010. (Source)
21
A number is never just a number: Abortion and women's rights
1892
The year parliament "criminalized the distribution and advertisement of contraceptives. Abortion became recognized as a crime punishable by life imprisonment and the use or sale of contraceptives became an indictable offence that was punishable by a two-year term in prison." (Source)
1969
The year Canada made exceptions to legal restrictions on abortion. Women had to make their case to a Therapeutic Abortion Committee comprised of three doctors. (Source and source, page 6)
A number is never just a number: The sustainability challenge
75,000
Square kilometres of Arctic sea ice that melted every day in August 2012. That's like losing ice the size of New Brunswick every 24 hours. (Source)
10
Number of years in which Arctic sea ice could vanish. "Very soon we may experience the iconic moment when, one day in summer, we look at satellite images and see no sea ice coverage in the Arctic, just open water." (Source)
2050
A number is never just a number: Federal budget 2012
$5.2 billion
Annual cost of most recent round of public service cuts when fully implemented, as announced in 2012 federal budget. (Source)
$13 billion
Amount of yearly revenue lost to the Harper government's corporate tax cuts in 2012-13. (Source)
70,000
Estimated number of real job cuts over the next three years due to federal austerity measures. (Source)
26
A number is never just a number: Voter suppression
18
Minimum number of ridings in which Canadian voters were allegedly harassed or deceived about voter information during the 2011 federal election, spawning an Elections Canada investigation into voter suppression tactics. (Source)
43
Total number of ridings, to date, which Liberals and New Democrats claim received "false or misleading" phone calls during the 2011 federal election. (Source)
51