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#OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet

Check out these Occupy Toronto images: #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com Citytv – #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com...

Some more Occupy Toronto photos

Some cool Occupy Toronto images: Sign – Protester – Shift Focus _ Kindness as a top priority – #Occupy #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Sign by cruisedailycreatedaily ( www.flickr.com/people/70153947@N07 ) Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com HOW DO YOU OCCUPY AN EVICTION Image by marc falardeau Occupy Toronto Evict Ford Rally Image by Danielle Scott...

#OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet

Some cool Occupy Toronto images: #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com...

Occupy Your Occupation

A few nice Occupy Toronto images I found: Occupy Your Occupation Image by El Mundo De LunAzul #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com...

Great Occupy Toronto images

Occupy Toronto photos

Some cool Occupy Toronto images: Occupy Toronto – Back On Site After The Arrest – Outside Barrick Gold AGM Board Meeting Image by Metrix X (Left) Rev. Alexa Gilmour of the United Church of Canada the afternoon after she was arrested for setting up a place of worship. #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet #Occupy – Stanley Cup Guy Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com...

Great Occupy Toronto images

Some cool Occupy Toronto images: Guy Fawkes Mask – #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet #Occupy Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com Poppy At Occupy Toronto Image by Metrix X Occupy Toronto—A Small Victory! Image by Jackman Chiu Occupy Toronto: (de)Occupy Toronto, Solidarity with Indigenous Struggles (November 12, 2011) Image by Jackman Chiu...

Some more Occupy Toronto photos

Some cool Occupy Toronto images: #OccupyToronto #OccupyBayStreet #Occupy – Stanley Cup Guy Image by Jason Hargrove Occupy Toronto is a peaceful protest that began on October 15, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in the Financial District of the downtown core. It is related to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011, also protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Toronto + Photography by Jason Hargrove jasonhargrove.com Occupy Toronto Nov 23 final eviction day033 Image by Metrix X Occupy Toronto Nov 23 final eviction day027 Image by Metrix X Occupy Toronto Nov 23 final eviction day025 Image by Metrix X...

The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement

The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review What&#8217s the 1st question that springs to thoughts when you believe about Occupy Wall Street? Where did it go? Was something in fact achieved? What went incorrect? These are not the concerns that David Graeber desires to answer in his new book on the protest and its ramifications. Graeber, an anthropologist and lifelong activist, was there from the beginning and helped give OWS its start in life in September 2011. He also helped coin the slogan &#8220We are the 99%&#8221, which did so significantly to brand the movement. Now, nearly two years on, Graeber wants to draw some of the wider lessons. He thinks the query that demands to be answered is: Why did it function? This is not as crazy as it sounds. Graeber has two motives for believing that Occupy was a huge good results. The 1st is that so several folks showed up at all. Graeber, who is also an anarchist, is a veteran of actions, rallies and occupations whose participants can normally be counted in the tens, not the tens of thousands. Bloombergville, a forerunner of the occupation of Zuccotti Park, was a camp of 40 activists living in tents opposite City Hall in decrease Manhattan throughout the summer time of 2011. No a single noticed, which is what tends to occur with this kind of protest. The original occupation of Wall Street on 17 September drew a couple of thousand folks, which was regarded as a triumph. But within weeks the movement had spread to a lot more than 600 cities, and large crowds were assembling day-to-day in New York. Graeber writes of possessing to pinch himself as he watched thousands of men and women mimicking the hand gestures and rallying cries of activists who were more used to shouting at every single other across empty rooms. full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/28/democracy-project-david-graeber-assessment...

Beyond Zuccotti Park

Occupy Toronto 13 August 2012 by Michael Holloway New Book takes a hard Look at Public Space Freedoms in the Wake of Occupy With the book’s release the authors are planning a travelling series of happenings, “A parallel exhibition as live participatory experience—Beyond Zuccotti Park: Exhibition as Occupation…” – one or which will undoubtedly be organized in Toronto – and in cities across Canada. Stay tuned here for updates. More on the project in this video form the Kickstarter page (Funded)– http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/303382230/beyond-zuccotti-park via New Village Press: New Book Takes Hard Look at Public Space Freedoms in the Wake of Occupy New York, NY – August 7, 2012 “Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space”, to be released on September 11, 2012, examines the importance of public space as a community forum for citizen expression. Actions against Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have spotlighted US Constitutional rights to freedom of assembly. The book puts issues of democracy and civic engagement into the center of built environment dialogue by addressing where and how people can congregate publicly today, whose voices are heard, and the factors that limit the participation of minorities. It also gives fresh attention to the planning, design, and programming of public space. Beyond Zuccotti Park was conceived in response to the forced clearance of Occupy activities from public plazas throughout the country. Its distinguished editors are advocates of participatory civic process: Ron Shiffman, FAICP, Hon. AIA, Director Emeritus, Pratt Center for Community Development and Professor, Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment; Rick Bell, Executive Director, American Institute of Architects, New York; Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor, School of Architecture, City College of New York, CUNY; Lynne Elizabeth, Director, New Village Press; Anastassia Fisyak, Urban Planning Fellow, Pratt Center for Community Development; and Anusha Venkataraman, Assistant Director, El Puente Green Light District. Beyond Zuccotti Park’s foreword was penned by Michael Kimmelman, chief architecture critic of the New York Times, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. The AIANY Center for Architecture will hold multiple events in celebration of Beyond Zuccotti Park: • Exhibit Opening – September 6 (runs thru 9/22) – Beyond Zuccotti Park: Exhibition as Occupation • Book Launch – September 10 – presenters: Peter Marcuse, professor emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University, and Nikki Stern, political, social, and cultural commentator. • Public Workshops – September 16 – Democracy, Equity, and Public Space, celebrating the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street “This book, like Zuccotti [Park] itself, is a site of vigorous conversation, hard thinking, and bold proposals.” —Mike Wallace, coauthor of Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 New Village Press – August 7, 2012 ___________ “.. A parallel exhibition as live participatory experience—Beyond Zuccotti Park: Exhibition as Occupation—is slated to open at the Center for Architecture on September 6 and will run through September 22, with fresh posters from Occuprint, broadcasts from May Day Radio, workshops from Occupy Town Square, and flashmob performances spilling onto adjacent sidewalks, La Guardia Place, and Washington Square Park. The book and exhibition are a collaborative partnership of the Center for Architecture New York, City College of New York School of Architecture, the Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, and Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. …” Sean Gleason – New Village Press ...

TRNN’s “Is Public Ownership the Solution?”

Occupy Toronto 01 August 2012 by Michael Holloway Big banks and financial institutions are too big to fail – and too big to regulate. Everyone knows that too-big-to-fail bank lobbyists on ‘K street’ are writing the regulation that is supposed to prevent another banking collapse – like that which happened in 2007-08. Everyone knows that the US congress is so awash in corporate acsh that getting real regulation passed is next to impossible. Good regulation law that does get passed in times of great crisis (“Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” – 2010) gets watered down so it is meaningless in application. Today’s news that JP Morgan is gambling in the Billions and has lost 5 billion one one deal then made it all back on another in these still ‘black’ derivative markets shows the world that the next crisis is likely to be bigger than the last. As I high-lighted earlier here – in the “Chris Hedges talk with Occupy Wall Street activist Kevin Zeese” article from July 5th, “Our job is to build pockets of resistance so that when the flash point arrives, people will have a place to go,” Zeese said.” That ‘flash point’ may wait to until the next massive bust in this stupid economy. Nest occupiers, nest. Great interview on all this and more from The Real News Network (TRNN) – Executive Producer Paul Jay interviews Gar Alperovitz, professor of political economy at the University of Maryland. Is Public Ownership the Solution? References: OccupyToronto, 05 July 2012, “Chris Hedges with Kevin Zeese: mass movement key to disobedience tactic’s success“: http://occupyto.org/2012/07/chris-hedges-with-kevin-zeese-mass-movement-key-to-disobedience-tactics-success/ Zero Hedge, 07 July 2012, “JPMorgan To Clawback Bonuses, Will Announce CIO Loss Just Over $5 Billion“: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jpmorgan-clawback-bonuses-will-announce-cio-loss-just-over-5-billion The Real News Network, 13 July 2012, “Is Public Ownership the Solution?“:http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8449 United States Government, 05 January 2010 “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act“: http://www.sec.gov/about/laws/wallstreetreform-cpa.pdf mh...

Another Occupy Is Possible — and Necessary

By Chris Maisano of Democratic Socialists of America and the Jacobin editorial board At the height of Occupy Wall Street’s efflorescence, when the enragés who took up residence in Zuccotti Park succeeded in raising the battle standard of the 99% for the entire world to see, I sat down for an interview with Frances Fox Piven to help make sense of what was unfolding before us. Although I thought I knew more than my fair share about the theory and practice of social movements in the U.S., as a child of the End of History, I had never really been part of one. I was born in the early 1980s, during the dreadful dawn of “Morning in America,” so aside from my days as an undergraduate global trade summit-hopper I learned almost everything I know about this stuff from books. The occupation of Zuccotti Park went on for days, days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months. It looked as if an honest-to-goodness social movement was breaking out in this country for the first time in my life. To be sure, I was elated. But to my surprise, that elation was often overcome by a sense of foreboding. I looked at all of the silliness that accompanied the encampments and feared that the movement (I still hesitate to use that phrase) would self-destruct before it made even a small dent in the power of the 1%. As is her wont, Piven was effusive in her praise for the protests. But she also reminded me and anyone who read the interview that when it comes to assessing the strength and development of social movements, it’s best to not get caught up in the exigencies of the moment and to take the long view instead. All the great movements in history, she reminded us, do not progress in a linear fashion, ever onward and upward until the final battle has been won. They grow and develop unevenly, moving by fits and starts, hitting peaks and valleys along the way. They may produce moments of collective euphoria, as in those first few weeks in Zuccotti Park, but they also inevitably bring with them periods of discouragement and demobilization. Full article at: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=935...

Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next?

What to do in the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street movement, when the protests that started far away – in the Middle East, Greece, Spain, UK – reached the centre, and are now reinforced and rolling out all around the world? In a San Francisco echo of the OWS movement on 16 October 2011, a guy addressed the crowd with an invitation to participate in it as if it were a happening in the hippy style of the 1960s: “They are asking us what is our program. We have no program. We are here to have a good time.” Such statements display one of the great dangers the protesters are facing: the danger that they will fall in love with themselves, with the nice time they are having in the “occupied” places. Carnivals come cheap – the true test of their worth is what remains the day after, how our normal daily life will be changed. The protesters should fall in love with hard and patient work – they are the beginning, not the end. Their basic message is: the taboo is broken, we do not live in the best possible world; we are allowed, obliged even, to think about alternatives. In a kind of Hegelian triad, the western left has come full circle: after abandoning the so-called “class struggle essentialism” for the plurality of anti-racist, feminist etc struggles, “capitalism” is now clearly re-emerging as the name of the problem. The first two things one should prohibit are therefore the critique of corruption and the critique of financial capitalism. First, let us not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is neither Main Street nor Wall Street, but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street. Public figures from the pope downward bombard us with injunctions to fight the culture of excessive greed and consummation – this disgusting spectacle of cheap moralization is an ideological operation, if there ever was one: the compulsion (to expand) inscribed into the system itself is translated into personal sin, into a private psychological propensity, or, as one of the theologians close to the pope put it: full article by Slavoj Zizek: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/24/occupy-wall-street-what-is-to-be-done-next...

Analysis of Occupy movement (three articles)

Three very good articles – two specifically about Occupy and an old article from the women’s movement: A Movement Without Demands? by Marco Deseriis and Jodi Dean “The question of demands infused the initial weeks and months of Occupy Wall Street with the endless opening of desire. Nearly unbearable, the absence of demands concentrated interest, fear, expectation, and hope in the movement. What did they want? What could they want? Commentators have been nearly hysterical in their demand for demands.” Three Complaints About OWS by Charles Lenchner “We can’t accuse ourselves of being well organized. And this lack of organization, championed by so many as a key ingredient of Occupy Wall Street’s success, continues to trip us up.” The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman “During the years in which the women’s liberation movement has been taking shape, a great emphasis has been placed on what are called leaderless, structureless groups as the main — if not sole — organizational form of the movement. The source of this idea was a natural reaction against the over-structured society in which most of us found ourselves, and the inevitable control this gave others over our lives, and the continual elitism of the Left and similar groups among those who were supposedly fighting this overstructuredness.”...

Justin Podur Interview

The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada Submitted by Justin Podur on Sun, 10/16/2011 – 15:27 The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn’t be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and criminal activity and were subsequently rewarded for doing so with trillions in government funds, while their victims reaped evictions and foreclosures. Canada did not have a crisis of the same severity, for a few reasons. Canada has a different banking system with a differently-regulated mortgage authority (although there are important similarities in the way the government takes risks and the private banks profit, and the Canadian system is far from invulnerable to crisis). The government is in the mortgage-backed securities business, but not in the totally unregulated way that the business ran in the US. Social democratic politics are a little bit stronger in Canada than in the US. Because the Conservatives were in a minority government at the time, the other parties were able to wring a stimulus out of the federal government that blunted the recession (the Bank of Canada also provided emergency funds and lowered interest rates to help the banks). But the overall problem, and direction of society, is the same, and the Occupy Together movement should find fertile ground in Canada. The slogan of Occupy Wall Street is “We are the 99%”. So, who are the 1% in Canada? (1). A 2010 report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) by Armine Yalnizyan documents “The Rise of Canada’s Richest 1%”. There are 246,000 of them and their average income is $403,000. They hold 13.8% of incomes, and pay some of the lowest taxes that the top 1% have ever paid, historically. To look within this 1% (at a tiny fraction of it, 0.0002%) economist Jim Stanford pulled some figures about Canadian billionaires from Canadian Business magazine for the Progressive Economics Forum (2). There are 61 Canadian billionaires, with a combined wealth of $162 billion (5 times the size of the federal government’s budget deficit). This is 6% of all personal net worth in Canada – they own twice as much wealth as the bottom 17 million Canadians. Their wealth increased by 8.4% last year (while average hourly earnings in Canada grew by 2.5%). On average, they added $100 million per household, while the average household added $524. Through a few historical accidents, Canada has been spared the most spectacular aspects of the US financial crisis, but it is hard to dispute that Canadian society is organized to benefit private corporations, and especially finance. The economics of this favouritism has been documented extremely well over the years by the CCPA. A 2010 report by the CCPA’s Toby Sanger, for example (3), shows how the financial sector has had a 23% profit margin during the past decade, compared to 7% for non-financial industries. Sanger quotes “a leading bank analyst” who estimates that Canada’s top banks will have $40 billion in excess cash by the end of 2012, the sum of all federal and provincial deficits projected for 2012-13. Corporate income rates have been cut from an average of 42.6% in 2000 to 28% by 2011, with more tax cuts coming. The tax cuts in this sector, and the tax havens for the fraction of the 1%, have helped bring about the revenue shortages that are then called “deficit crises”, which governments then use as pretexts for austerity budgets. In a society based on layers of inequality, the 99% is itself differentiated. Another 2010 CCPA report by Daniel Wilson and David McDonald (4) reveals one of these inequalities. The median income for Canadians in 2006 was $27,097; for aboriginal peoples, $18,962, or 30% lower. Scholar Grace-Edward Galabuzi has documented social exclusion based on race and gender (5). And a recent report by the Conference Board of Canada shows that income inequality in Canada is growing faster even than in the US (6). All of these inequalities are within the 99%, which highlights the need for a more equal society in general. The extremes of inequality are glaring, but these grinding inequalities are no picnic either. One comparison, made frequently in the media, that seems to drives progressives crazy is the one between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movement, which is based on the magical idea that society should be able to afford things (from roads to wars) without paying taxes. When Tea Party politics got to Canada they helped elect Toronto’s current mayor and helped give the Conservatives a boost to a majority government (7). The Occupy Wall Street movement’s arrival in Canada could help discredit the austerity that the Conservative government will be putting forward in their next budget, and could help in resisting their plans to deepen inequalities and destroy what economic, social, and environmental fabric is left. Notes 1. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/rise-canadas-richest-1 2. http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2011/10/14/canadas-billionaires/ 3. Toby Sanger, “Fair Shares: How Banks, Brokers, and the Financial Industry can Pay Fairer Taxes.” http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/fair-shares 4. Daniel Wilson and David McDonald, “The Income Gap Between Aboriginal Peoples and the Rest of Canada”. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/income-gap-between-aboriginal-peoples-and-rest-canada. 5. Grace-Edward Galabuzi. Canada’s Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2006. 6. The Globe and Mail reported this in the business section on September 13, 2011: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/daily-mix/income-inequality-rising-quickly-in-canada/article2163938/ 7. I don’t want to exaggerate this – Canada has always had these politics and there are “home-grown” explanations for these electoral results....

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