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Who owns the economy matters. We're a Canadian policy non-profit advocating for broader access to wealth and ownership. #cdnpoli #ownershipmatters www.socialcapitalpartners.ca Toronto, ON 🇨🇦

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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🧵: A new @futureofprivacy.bsky.social report puts a spotlight on surveillance pricing and how corporations are using your personal data to determine the max you’ll pay for something and charge you exactly that.
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The Price is Right: Responsible Uses of Personal Data in Pricing – Future of Privacy Forum
This resource provides an overview of how data is used to inform pricing; contextualizes data-driven pricing in existing U.S. law, enforcement activity, and emerging legislation; and recommends a numb...
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350 Canada @350canada.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Don’t buy Big Oil’s lies 💸 The only way Canadians will benefit from the oil price shock is if we tax the fossil fuel industry’s excess profits and use those billions to help everyday people. #cdnpoli #canada #gasprices
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Between 2019 and 2024, only 11.5% of outstanding business loans in Canada went to SMEs. Across the OECD, the average was 44%. A new report by @michellearnold.bsky.social argues that this is not a reflection of the limits of our entrepreneurs, but the limits of our lenders. Read the report 👇
socialcapitalpartners.ca
Built to Exclude: Why Canada’s enterprises need a different kind of financing
Canada's enterprise financing system is dominated by big banks that control 93% of banking assets and nearly 80% of SME lending. While stable and respected, these banks have structural constraints—min...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
With more than 75% of small business owners planning to exit over the next decade and $2 trillion in assets at stake, it’s a change that could give more employees a stake in their workplace and keep businesses under Canadian ownership. Read the article 👇 #OwnershipMatters #EOTs #CdnPoli
readthepeak.com
An under-the-radar tax change could see more employees become owners in their workplace
Business owners who sell their companies to Employee-Owned Trusts will benefit from a juicy incentive that's now a permanent part of the tax code.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Canadian Tax Observatory says about 84% of the 8 million people living with disabilities have not been able to qualify for the #DisabilityTaxCredit. Disability advocates have been pushing to make the qualification process easier. 📰 Read the article: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Changes to disability tax credit broadly welcomed by opposition, advocates | CBC News
The Liberal government's plan to make it easier for Canadians living with disabilities to apply for the disability tax credit is being welcomed by the opposition and advocates who say the proposed cha...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Come for the finance, stay for the fireworks. Come for the fireworks, stay for the finance. Sign up to the Social Capital Partners eNews! Read it: mailchi.mp/baf84e5ffe21... Subscribe: socialcapitalpartners.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
To build real resilience, Canada can’t just worry about who we do business with. We must rethink who owns the economy. Not consolidated among multinationals, and vest-wearing asset managers, but spread among employees. #CdnPoli Read the article (gift link!) www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🎉Big news for small biz🎉 The federal gov is making the Employee Ownership Trust tax exemption PERMANENT! Business owners can now sell to their employees and get up to $10M in capital gains exempted. No more uncertainty. Plan with confidence! #SmallBusiness #EOTs #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli
theglobeandmail.com
Tax break to help business owners sell to employees to be made permanent
Program could help thousands of small-business owners as they think about retirement
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What happens if you don't tax really rich people
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
In Tuesday's Government of Canada spring economic update, @mark-carney.bsky.social says that Employment Ownership Trusts (EOTs) “empower Canadian workers to buy into their businesses.” It's great news for workers, communities and the broader economy. #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli #CdnEcon #EOTJoy
globalnews.ca
7 ways the spring economic update will affect your wallet - National | Globalnews.ca
The spring economic update includes a number of new measures intended to lower costs for Canadians that will also affect personal finances, mortgage rules and banking.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Among measures our social sector should know about: The tax incentive designed to support more companies in transitioning into Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) is being made permanent, reports @futureofgood.bsky.social "Employee ownership is a perfect fit for our times." #EOTs #CdnPoli
futureofgood.co
Explainer: What the social sector should know about Carney’s Spring Economic Update – Future of Good
A tax incentive designed to support more companies in transitioning into Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) is being made permanent, as per the Spring Economic Update.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today, @mark-carney.bsky.social made the employee ownership tax incentive permanent! For business owners, this means certainty. For workers, this means opportunity. For communities, this means businesses stay locally owned. We are overjoyed and grateful! #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli #EOTs
employee-ownership.ca
EOC Celebrates Landmark Government Decision On Employee Ownership | Employee Ownership Canada
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We just released our first Spring Economic Update. It outlines our country’s strong fiscal position and introduces new measures to ensure that all Canadians can participate in building Canada strong, and share in its success.
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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Great work from @gillianpetit.bsky.social and @hscoffield.bsky.social www.thestar.com/business/opi...
thestar.com
Ottawa's 'broken links' keeps majority of Canadians living with a disability out of luck on tax credit
About 8 million Canadians live with a disability — and often in poverty — writes Heather Scoffield, and yet only 16 per cent qualify for the disability tax credit, an
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
OMERS committed $10B more to Canadian investments, which is good news. But our pension funds have been pulling back from Canada for 20 years. With real threats to our economic sovereignty on the table, that has to change fundamentally. Our take on what it will actually take 👇 #CdnPoli #Maple8
socialcapitalpartners.ca
Are Canadian pension funds stepping up for Canada at this moment of threat? All signs point to maybe
Large Canadian pension plan OMERS announced earlier this week that it will attempt to increase its investments in Canada by $10B over the next five years. This is a good sign, says SCP CEO Matthew Men...
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 24/04/2026
Using our data from wid.world, @lemonde.fr shows where members of the Lecornu government sit in France’s income and wealth distribution. Almost all are in the top 10% for income and wealth, a reminder of how political representation maps onto inequality. ⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/04/2026
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
theguardian.com
Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege
The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Cdn Tax Observatory and @gillianpetit.bsky.social did a deep dive into the #DisabilityTaxCredit. It’s supposed to be a gateway to 13+ income support programs but 84% of people w disabilities don’t qualify. Many of them are living below the poverty line. 👇Read more #Disability #CdnPoli
canadiantaxobservatory.ca
Canada's Disability Tax Credit stymies 84% of those it’s meant to help | The Canadian Tax Observatory
A new report authored by Dr. Gillian Petit takes a detailed look at the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) and its role in channeling support for those who need it most.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The latest on pension tensions, Artemis II "competency porn" and turbocharging the Bank of Mom and Dad, all in one funny-but-factual biweekly read. Read our newsletter: mailchi.mp/e4fe794e2647... Subscribe: socialcapitalpartners.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... #CdnPoli #ArtemisII
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The First Home Savings Account was sold as a program to help aspiring homeowners locked out of the housing market. But according to new #s from the Cdn Tax Observatory, it's turning into a program that benefits those who need it least. Read the report: canadiantaxobservatory.ca/biggest-fhsa...
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“You don’t have to invest in Palantir. You don’t have to invest in Elon Musk.” — @mendelmatt.bsky.social (@scpartners.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social pension funds can earn strong returns without undermining Canada’s future. At 8pm with Keith Ambachtsheer | Producer: Mike Attenborough
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you've felt like the economy is doing fine for some people and really not fine for others, you’re right. We’re living in a K-shaped economy, in which the well-off are thriving and everyone else is grinding it out. 📰 Read the piece 👇 #CdnPoli #WealthInequality #KShapedEconomy
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A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy | The Canadian Tax Observatory
Since the pandemic ended, life for the wealthy has been a joyride. Life for the rest of us has, more often than not, been a grind.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/04/2026
The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
💔 #CdnPoli #GroceryPrices #FoodInsecurity #WorkingPeople #WealthInequality
theconversation.com
Policing the grocery store checkout won’t fix Canada’s food retail crisis
Expanding surveillance in supermarkets may deter theft, but it does little to address the structural causes of food insecurity and rising grocery prices.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Extreme wealth inequality undermines economic resilience and social stability, and we’re here to change that. It’s the natural next step in our mission to build an economy where more people are owners and have agency over their economic future. What we believe:
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA) A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The latest on apocalyptic mindfulness, gambling on everything and the K-Shaped Economy all in one funny-but-factual biweekly read. Read the Social Capital Partners newsletter: mailchi.mp/195ad68d7dba... #SignUp #CdnPoli #WealthInequality #Ownership
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Canada's non-market housing sector is half the size it should be, and part of the reason is a set of obscure rules quietly blocking NFPs from using their own assets. 👇 Our new paper lays out the problem and, crucially, the fixes! They're relatively simple, low-cost and within reach. #CdnPoli
socialcapitalpartners.ca
Unlocking non-profit assets: The low-cost fixes Canada's housing sector desperately needs
Growing the non-market housing sector is a national priority and building the capacity of non-profits to deliver more of it is one of the most important levers available. Unfortunately, explain Michel...
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 01/04/2026
🎧Tune in to the first episode of The Billionaire Age — CBC's new documentary series featuring World Inequality Lab's co-directors and research fellows @lucaschancel.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social @nitin-k-bharti.bsky.social @guidoalfani.bsky.social, and more. app.magellan.ai/listen_links...
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The Billionaire Age Pt 1 | How did we get here?
Listen to Ideas
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Food is too expensive in Canada. And one reason is the oligopolistic control of our food markets, writes @mendelmatt.bsky.social. Grocery chains make profits way out of line with their global peers. Even when comparing apples to oranges, #OwnershipMatters 📰 Read the piece 👇 #CdnPoli
socialcapitalpartners.ca
Toronto is piloting a city-owned grocery store. Could it help fight high food prices?
Toronto City Council has approved initial steps toward a city-owned grocery store pilot to increase competition and drive down food prices. The move addresses growing concern over Canada's grocery oli...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What DOESN'T Canada need? More ways to gamble. @rwasserman.bsky.social was on CKNW 730 Radio in Vancouver this morning to talk about prediction markets, Polymarket betting and all things problematic about this new form of gambling. 🎧 Listen to the interview at 19:10 here 👇 #CdnPoli
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Canada's role in the Strait of Hormuz - Crypto donations to political parties - Prediction markets coming to Canada
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
When it comes to prices and daily living, it's rough out there. Some are making $ hand over fist while others suffer. Read more in this *gift link* to the Saturday Star's Opinion Weekly by @hscoffield.bsky.social #KShapedEconomy #CdnPoli 🔗 www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Top 10 Signs of No Kings, 3/28/26. After reviewing thousands of photos from yesterday, here are my Top 10. Links to my Top 10s from No Kings in April, June and October are included. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
open.substack.com
Top 10 Signs from No Kings, 3/28/26
Another amazing turnout for No Kings all over the country despite cold weather in many parts of the country as we build our moment to turn out in big numbers for the midterms.
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings is worth attending for the entertaining signs.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Prediction market execs in the U.S. are calling this exploding form of betting on just about anything "financial innovation." @rwasserman.bsky.social challenges that, calling it what it is: gambling. She joined @globalnews.ca to explain 🎧 Listen to the clip: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...
Screenshot of Global News The dangers of prediction-market gambling coming to Canada on Shaye Ganam show, Radio in Calgary and Edmonton
Rachel Wasserman is the founder of Wasserman Business Law and is a fellow at Social Capital Partners and CAMP
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The Big Story @thebigstory.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A new report found 86 billionaire families hold as much wealth as Canada’s 6.2 million poorest families. We speak with @dylandusseault.bsky.social on why some of Canada's richest say they should be taxed more and @jimbostanford.bsky.social breaks down tax loopholes driving the gap lnk.to/bigstory
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
How’s the U.S. economy? Not bad if you’re rich. Same in 🍁: over the past year, the richest households have been rapidly multiplying their wealth, while those with tighter budgets struggle to get ahead. Read their stories. #EconSky #WealthEquality #CdnPoli #EconomicSecurityForAll
nbcnews.com
Who can afford to get ahead in America?
The rich are getting richer, while others can't keep up. Here's why the top 1% is doing so well and why many Americans are struggling financially.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/03/2026
Wall Street's average annual bonus hit $246,900 in 2025, taking the total payout pool to a record high, according to estimates by the New York State comptroller. Read more: bloom.bg/4uSfnwZ 📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Prediction markets have made it possible to bet on almost anything in the U.S. and now @wealthsimple.bsky.social wants to bring it to Canada. It looks like finance, but acts like gambling - with all its addictive harms. Read @rwasserman.bsky.social on stopping the scourge 👇 #CdnPoli #EconSky
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: We must stop the scourge of prediction-market gambling coming to Canada
Prediction markets use the language of finance but rely on the economics of gambling
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"Federal authorities are nickel-and-diming individual taxpayers, often in low-income circumstances, while fiscal authorities are side-stepping a full-on conversation about how to fairly finance the society we want and who will pay." 📰 Read the latest from @hscoffield.bsky.social #FairTaxation
thestar.com
Six years later, the CRA is still hunting down billions in CERB money. Court cases are piling up
While the CRA nickels and dimes individual taxpayers, writes Heather Scoffield, Ottawa has side-stepped a conversation about how to fairly finance the society we want — and who will pay.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In our latest SCP newsletter: ❄️We the Nords! Read it: us18.campaign-archive.com?u=53675690f1... Subscribe: socialcapitalpartners.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
@c4tf.bsky.social and @bcpolicy.bsky.social found that, in 2023, 86 billionaire families held as much wealth as Canada’s 6.2 million least wealthy families. The big question for @dylandusseault.bsky.social is how to fix it? #WealthInequality #WorkingPeople
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Canada's wealth inequality gap is widening..a tax reform could fix it | The Big Story
YouTube video by CityNews
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Canada introduced the Employee Ownership Trust 2024 and it's already working (!) But a key tax incentive expires in 2026. Without urgent action from Ottawa, the window could close before it ever fully opens. 📖 Worth a read: socialcapitalpartners.ca/why-canada-s... #EconSky #CdnPoli
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 22/03/2026
Wab Kinew’s NDP government in Manitoba has tabled a bill to ban “predatory pricing” at grocery stores, something that Quebec’s Consumer Protection Minister should take notice of.
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Manitoba wants to ban 'predatory pricing' at grocery stores — Quebec should do the same
Wab Kinew's NDP government in Manitoba wants to ban "predatory pricing" at grocery stores, and Quebec should do the same.
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Inequality.org @inequality.org · 21/03/2026
We had to double check the number of zeroes on this one!
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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Extreme wealth inequality is a policy choice. It is a product of the dynamics of contemporary capitalism that we are not properly addressing through policy. Too few people own too many assets. It is a threat to democracy and global security. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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How the Top One Per Cent Threaten Canada’s Future | The Tyee
Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. To preserve democracy, we must act.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Independent, evidence-based reporting by those who are not owned and controlled by wealthy oligarchs has never been more important. #Prosperity #WorkingPeople #Democracy #Independence
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Has anyone asked Trump what he's feeling in his bones today?
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