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More Canadian Women Join Top One Per Cent While Gap With Poor Grows: Report

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 16 Dec, 2016 12:54 PM
    MONTREAL — Statistics Canada says more women are joining the one-per-cent club but still accounted for less than one-quarter of the country's top earners in 2014.
     
    The agency says in a new report that women accounted for 22 per cent of the top one per cent of tax filers in 2014, compared to 10 per cent in the early 1980s.
     
    Canada had 268,500 tax filers in the top one per cent in 2014, earning at least $225,100.
     
    Although the top one per cent earned about 12 per cent of all income in Canada in 2014, the rich have gotten richer since 1982.
     
    The bottom half of income earners saw their share of total Canadian income decrease 28.4 per cent between 1982 and 2014, while the top one per cent's share grew 53 per cent.
     
    The wealthiest have seen their share of Canada's income grow since the Second World War but is still below the levels during the Great Depression.

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    Abbotsford, B.C. Man Who Tried To Smuggle Baby Lizards Across Border Fined $6,000

    Abbotsford, B.C. Man Who Tried To Smuggle Baby Lizards Across Border Fined $6,000
    Canada Border Services Agency says in a release that Gregory Anderson was trying to cross from Sumas, Wash., into Abbotsford last October when officers found the reptiles in the pocket of his hooded sweatshirt.

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    Toddler, 2, Among 4 Family Members Killed In Port Colborne, Ont. House Fire

    Toddler, 2, Among 4 Family Members Killed In Port Colborne, Ont. House Fire
    Two children, their mother and their great-grandmother have died in a house fire that has devastated a small southwestern Ontario community, according to a close friend and a family relative.

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    Conditional Discharge For Unruly Sunwing Travellers Who Forced Plane Turnaround

    TORONTO — Two women whose "obnoxious and unruly behaviour" forced a Cuba-bound Sunwing flight to return to Toronto under a military escort have been given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay a fine.

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    'Grinch' Steals Donations From Christmas Display On Prince Edward Island

    'Grinch' Steals Donations From Christmas Display On Prince Edward Island
    NORTH RUSTICO, P.E.I. — A P.E.I. couple who collect charitable donations from people visiting their elaborate Christmas display says the donation box has been stolen.

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    Vancouver Approves Tax To Help First Responders Battling Opioid Overdose Crisis

    Vancouver Approves Tax To Help First Responders Battling Opioid Overdose Crisis
    Vancouver has approved a small tax hike intended to help address the opioid overdose crisis.

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    Safety board to report on B.C. fishing boat capsizing that killed three

    Safety board to report on B.C. fishing boat capsizing that killed three
    Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board are scheduled to release a report today about a commercial fishing boat that capsized last year near Tofino, B.C., killing three men.

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