Scarlett Jones Overt institutional racism may no longer be socially acceptable in Canada, as it was during the days of the Chinese head tax, yet it has certainly proven to be persistent. Racial inequities continue to exist along institutional fault lines. For example, there is a disproportionate correlation between race and poverty, with visible minorities…
Author: Scarlett Jones
Inequality in Alberta: Income Distribution in Canada’s Wealthiest Province
Scarlett Jones A recently released Statistics Canada report has revealed that the top ten per cent of income earners in Alberta took home 50.4 per cent of total income in 2012 – making it the only province to be more unequal than the United States, where the top ten per cent take home 48.2 per…
Seen and Heard: Naheed Nenshi on Policy and Politics
Scarlett Jones Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi was introduced at the Rotman School of Management on October 21st as “His Worship the Mayor of Calgary” and “a policy rock star.” The politics-policy duality implied in his introduction, made by the Director Mark Stabile of the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance, was a reoccurring…
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