Dave Chilton "The Wealthy Barber Returns     Main Discussion: Retirement
TVO 27 minutes
About the video:
After the huge success of "The Wealthy Barber", Dave Chilton has written a follow-up; "The Wealthy Barber Returns". He dispenses financial advice for this economy, and addresses the subjects of personal debt and the importance of saving.

CBC Radio 1 The Current      23 min - Skip over first 2.5 minutes
Project Censored
We continue our look at the year's most under-reported stories with Peter Phillips. He is the co-author of this year's Project Censored report and we talk to him to find out where he thinks the media has dropped the ball
Professor Peter Philips

Chris Hedges:  
TheWorld As It Is - Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress   
Death of the Liberal Class
Corporations Have No Use For Borders
"What happended to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal Health Care. Funding for the arts. A good record on the environment.

How Climate Change Became a 'Liberal Hoax'
Noam Chomsky  
Corporations Rule
Video 21.50 minutes
Biography:

A policy plan to hide poverty, inequality
Ottawa is shutting down public debate on issues it doesn’t care about
The Hamilton Spectator
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Stephanie Baker Collins Thu Apr 26 2012

"While the public bemoans raucous question periods in Parliament and hyperpartisan debate, a federal government plan for much more lasting damage to public debate is unfolding in Canada.This plan is silencing the voices of those who speak against poverty, inequality and human rights violations and eliminating the information they use. It is steadily eroding our ability to even see these problems by eliminating the data sources that enable us to understand ourselves as a society"

Canadian Tory Tax Policy May Worsen Disparities
by Les Whittington, Toronto Star, May28 2011
"Income gap a serious threat, OECD warns . . . The rich get richer while the poor get poorer . . . The secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warns the member countries that income inequality is becoming a 'serious threat . . . more urgent than ever', and informs that in a study of 30 countries that Canada was among the worst for a widening wealth gap. Whittington quotes from a Toronto research agency, that 3.8 percent of Canadian households controlled 66.6% of all financial wealth, up from 60.6 % in 2005; predicting 70 % in 2018."

Editor's Comment:
Harper's legacy: Dickensian urban poverty.
Recognizing that our nominally democratic political machinery is failing to represent the economic interest of the majority, and has made it clear that it considers that income inequality is controlled by the market and that any attempt to help the less fortunate would lead to economic disaster.
Thus the wealthy elite dominate political life.
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize in economics, in his book The Conscience of a Liberal, states that middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be created through political action.
Canadians witnessed this creational phenomena in the 1950s.
Krugman's suggestion that for the nation's sake: "pursue an unabashedly liberal program of expanding the social safety net and reducing inequality - a new Canadian deal.

Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity
By Paul Krugman
Published: May 3, 2012
New York Times
"Before the Great Recession, I would sometimes give public lectures in which I would talk about rising inequality, making the point that the concentration of income at the top had reached levels not seen since 1929. Often, someone in the audience would ask whether this meant that another depression was imminent"