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Why the gap between rich and poor keep growing

Globalization and technology are intensifying the growing income gap between the rich and poor in Canada, economists say.

And government policies aren’t doing enough to bridge the difference.

The result is a chasm between the haves and have-nots that is only getting larger, they said in response to an international wage gap report Monday.

“Across the entire advanced world, we’re seeing widening income disparity,” Craig Alexander, chief economist with TD Bank Financial Group said in an interview. “I think a couple of things are contributing to that, the impact of globalization and the impact of the information technology revolution.”

A data wonk's dream: Statscan to drop pay wall

BY: Tavia Grant, Globe and Mail

If Canada is to morph into a knowledge-based economy, its citizens need better access to reliable, unbiased information.

With that in mind, Statistics Canada will make all of its standard data available for free on its website, starting next year. As of Feb. 1, all data known as Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (or CANSIM) will be posted freely on the agency’s website. Census and geography data will also become free.

Statistics Canada to make all online data free

BY: Carl Meyer, Embassy Magazine, November 24, 2011

All of Statistics Canada’s standard online products, including the census, socioeconomic and geographic data, will be offered to the public for free starting February 2012, Embassy has learned.

In 2010, the agency was rocked when the government dropped the mandatory long-form census, and its chief statistician resigned in protest. Immigration experts slammed the decision for jeopardizing the targeted delivery of services like languages training and job-search workshops.

Now, the agency will not charge for the information it gathered during the 2011 census. Instead, as it releases the first set of census data this February, it will also announce that it will be free—as well as the rest of its online, readily-available data.

While Statistics Canada has been working towards opening up more of its data for several years, it still currently charges for a portion of its online data, including, for example, some data sets inside its Canadian Socioeconomic Information Management System, what the agency calls its “key socioeconomic database.”

The Occupy Movement: A Lesson in the Risk of Inequality

By Alan Broadbent, Maytree Opinion, November 2011

The Occupy Wall Street movement has puzzled many people. The lack of organization, elaborated message, or visible leaders has left some people asking for more, and the presence of young people with no clear political or social agenda in the tent parks has left others wondering if it is just a dropped-out caravan.

The simple message of the 99% facing off against the 1%, the vast majority against the very rich who have corralled the bulk of the wealth created in the last quarter century, seems pretty clear, but is portrayed as not enough of an analysis.

But the data doesn’t lie. The gap between the richest and the poorest has been growing, as has the gap between the richest and the rest. And in the developed world the middle class has been disappearing.

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