The presidential glass ceiling
More women than ever have university degrees, but men still dominate university leadership
View ArticleStudents are my colleagues: professor
3M Teaching Fellow creates equality in the classroom
View ArticleColbert’s convocation, energy drinks & #IWD
What students are talking about today (March 7th)
View ArticleWhy millennials support marriage equality
Socially conscious artists, Obama have helped the cause
View ArticlePrinceton mom doesn’t speak for me
Find a husband on campus before I graduate? No thanks.
View ArticleWomen missing from university leadership
Experts discuss how to improve equality at the top
View ArticleConservatism is not the issue
My recent piece on the federal budget as marking the end point of conservatism in Canada seems to have been the subject of some misinterpretation. Many people have taken it as a lament, as if this were...
View Article“The moral crisis that is shaking the capitalist system”
We bring you today’s Sonia Sotomayor honourary blogpost: OTTAWA, June 2, 2009 – Following Bill S-235, a proposal to limit the remuneration of officers of companies that receive federal financial...
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Tempest in a niqab
Photograph by David Boily/ La Presse UPDATE: The Quebec government tabled a bill Wednesday requiring faces to be in plain view when obtaining or delivering government services. In August 2009, Naema...
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I’m with the ‘intolerant’ Quebecers
Photograph by Brian Howell The other day, a reader wrote to say that, while en vacances au Québec, he had espied me in a restaurant. With a couple of obvious francophones. And, from the snatches of...
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Outraged moms, trashy daughters
Bennett Raglin/ Getty Images/ Cole Garside A few weeks ago, when she was chatting with her teenage daughter, Olivia, Leanne Foster mentioned the word “feminist.” “She just wrinkled her nose,” Foster...
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Ms. President
Chris Bolin Photography, Photograph by Andrew Tolson When Elizabeth Cannon showed up for her first day of engineering school in 1979, women made up five per cent of the program. Now, as she takes the...
View ArticleIn praise of VAT
Stephen Gordon tries to reconcile progressives with sales taxes. Outside Canada, it is generally accepted that high VAT rates are an essential component of social policy: see the accompanying graph. Of...
View ArticleHow much is your vote worth?
Mike Moffatt figures some minorities are underrepresented by the current electoral map. My question to you is: Given the other tensions the electoral system needs to consider, how much...
View ArticleThe prosperity gap
Alex Himelfarb considers the ramifications of inequality. When Warren Buffett argued that the rich should pay more than they do (heck, even Adam Smith believed in progressive taxation), across the U.S....
View ArticleSupport the arts, tax the rich
Brian Topp continues to make use of his Globe pulpit: defending the Canadian arts community and explaining the case for taxing the rich. Like all other industrial economies, Canada foolishly mirrored...
View ArticleIs Jim Flaherty a hippie?
First, the Finance Minister quotes Bobby Kennedy and waxes romantic about public service and “working together” for the “public good.” Now, he expresses some sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street...
View ArticleMaybe we have it all wrong
Alex Himelfarb considers taxes and the decline of trust, transparency, honesty and equality. Most Canadians do know that the teachers and firefighters, the police and health care workers, the roads and...
View ArticleWhen taxes aim high
Stephen Gordon questions the effects of taxing the rich. What becomes more problematic is just who will bear the burden of those taxes – or, in the language of public finance, what is the incidence of...
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