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Wealth distribution has grown increasingly more slanted to the high earners for forty or fifty years now, the higher the income, the higher the increase in share of the wealth. The top one percent saw their share increase by 53% since 1982, the bottom 50% saw their share decrease by 28% during...

It's out of control. Thirty or forty million dollars a years is obscene. If you look at money as a finite resource why should it be anywhere near acceptable that the top one percent of controls 25% of the country's wealth while the bottom 40% shares 1% ?

Unless you're one of the lucky few. I pulled these numbers from a report on CEO and top executive wages issued by an economic thinktank in the US, The Economic Policy Institute: EPI Report on CEO Compensation

Well he did make sure his whole family came out of it rich, and he managed to keep the courts off his ass for a while.

I got hooked on CBC Radio decades back when it was the only choice where I lived. You were lucky if the broadcast was in English and not Inuktitut. That was back in the golden years of Peter Gzowski and Vicki Gabereau. It's always been the music and "magazine" shows that have had my attention...

Way too cold for us Okanagan pussies. Heat bill gonna be scary.

This seems to be the way of choice in Canadian politics these days, turf the incumbent out of anger without any thought as to what would replace them. The CPC is a party in total disarray internally, and the lame policies they brought to the table in the recent election said that all they have...

Well there ya go, "the market" is what is is, and fair to those without disposable cash is not part of the formula. I probably could have got there sooner had I passed on a lot of the enjoyments I had along the way, but that was then and now is now. It hurts that even living frugally and...

Fort McMurray banned single use bags, both plastic and paper, over a decade ago.

Yes, I do, but I count myself among the lucky that I have been able to find a few extra bucks to tuck away. It's kind of discouraging to see the challenges facing young families today when it comes to finding those few extra bucks with living expenses going the way they are. The gap between...

We are "us", "the market" is them. Government is somewhat flexible.

In regards to an "unregulated free market", there's a distinction to be made between the government telling you what you can and can't do as opposed to them telling you how to do it once you decide to start. Ours is basically a free market, but experience has taught us that public safety and...

I suspect that the fathers of the kids involved would have been happy to join in.

From what I've seen in looking at recent events there Germany's political system is a tangle of different parties which tends to lead to governing power resting with a coalition of different parties. The two largest parties sit center-right and center-left, but each of those will ally itself...

Kids can be cruel, there's no disputing that. Even if you do your best to teach them well when they're young there is always situations where they come up against those who come from, let's say less than compassionate homes. At a time when when "fitting in" is important to youngsters it's easy...

I'll be keeping an eye on Germany. Their recent election also included a referendum on whother or not to allow the government to expropriate property from corporations owning more than 3000 rental units. It passed.

True, but is there an ethical line being crossed when someone is trying to monopolize the housing market in areas where there are plenty of renters "ripe for the plucking" ?

Big Property Company Tells Investors Its Business Strategy Focuses on ‘Essential Workers’ in Provinces Where There’s ‘No Rent Controls’ "One of Western Canada’s biggest rental companies says it is building up a tenant base of “essential workers” in Alberta and Saskatchewan specifically because...

"Flat" at a level that still causes a steady increase in atmospheric CO2.