● Percentage of Canadians who believe they are “as nice as the world thinks we are”: 66 ● Percentage who believe they are “even nicer”: 12 ● Percentage of Canadians who say “there are too many immigrants coming to Canada”: 46 ● Percentage of Canadians who say the country’s security is “under threat” because of […]
● Number of people who attended Donald Trump’s Presidential inauguration on January 20: 160,000 ● Number of people who attended the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. a day later: 470,000 ● Additional income attained by Canadian women each week from working in a unionized workplace: $574 million ● Percentage of people quoted in news […]
● Number of times the U.S. Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote during the last 25 years: 1 ● Percentage of eligible voters in the United States who voted for Donald Trump: 25 ● Percentage of eligible voters in Canada who voted for the Liberal Party in the last federal election: 27 ● […]
● Number of years Canada Post has been profitable since 1994: 20 ● Number of years Apple Inc. has been profitable since 1994: 19 ● Amount that the Conference Board of Canada predicted Canada Post would lose in 2012: $250 million ● Amount that Canada Post earned in profit that year: $98 million ● Amount […]
● Estimated number of homeless people in Vancouver: 1,847 ● Number of housing units in Vancouver that sit empty: 10,800 ● Percentage of workers in Ontario who were making the minimum wage in 1997: 2.5 ● Percentage today: 12 ● Amount of gigabytes of data leaked through WikiLeaks in 2010: 1.7 ● Amount of gigabytes […]
● At the current rate of progress, estimated year in which the worldwide gender workplace and income gap will end: 2133 ● Rank of Iceland in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index: 1 ● Rank of Canada: 30 ● Rank of Canada in the area of “wage equality for similar work”: 80 ● […]
● Number of additional Canadians who voted in the 2015 federal election compared to the 2011 federal election: 2,838,773 ● Number of major newspapers throughout Canada that officially endorsed either the Conservative or Liberal parties: 28 ● Number that officially endorsed the NDP: 0 ● Amount of subsidies provided to the oil industry by governments […]
● Average number of working hours per week in Greece: 41.9 ● Average number of working hours per week in Germany: 35.3 ● Rank of Greece in having the highest number of working hours per week in the European Union: 1 ● Percentage of total global wealth owned by the 85 richest individuals in the […]
● Percentage of current university undergraduate students in Canada who are women: 55 ● Percentage of full-time, full-year, median male income in Canada that women earn, for those aged 25 to 34: 76.6 ● Total cumulative median earnings by a Canadian man with a bachelor degree, since 1991: $1,517,200 ● Total cumulative median earnings by […]
● Estimated number of housing units currently being constructed in Toronto: 100,000 ● Of these, number that are publicly funded, social housing units for low income residents: 1,641 ● Number of Torontonians who utilize the City-administered homeless shelter system each year: 17,500 ● Number of Canadian Armed Forces personnel who have died in combat in […]
● Average number of people who use a food bank in Canada each month: 833,000 ● Chance that a food bank user in Canada is receiving some form of social assistance: 1 in 2 ● Number of additional suicides committed in Europe and North America since 2007 due to the financial crisis: 10,000 ● Average […]
● Percentage of workers globally who belong to a union: 7 ● Percentage of workers globally who believe they have “access to a union” or that access to a union is “easy to achieve”: 64 ● Number of children globally engaged in hazardous labour that threatens their “health, safety and development”: 85 million ● Amount […]
● Percentage of Canadians who believe unions should have the right to strike: 59 ● Percentage of Canadians from union households who believe this: 75 ● Amount of human-made carbon released into the atmosphere since the late-18th century, in tons: 500 billion ● Estimated year in which this number will reach one trillion: 2040 ● […]
● Percentage of U.S. citizens who can’t locate Syria on a map of the world: 50 ● Percentage of U.S. Department of Defense personnel who can’t: 43 ● Number of foreign takeovers of Canadian-owned business permitted by federal regulators since 1985: 1,637 ● Number of foreign takeovers that were denied during the same period: 2 […]
● Amount that Canada could save each year by implementing a public, universal drug program: $10.7 billion ● Total number of pages of the RCMP’s personal file on former NDP leader Tommy Douglas: 1,142 ● Number of pages that are still classified to this day: 215 ● Percentage change in nominal GDP in Canada during […]
● Current personal debt to income ratio in Canada: 1.66 to 1 ● Personal debt to income ratio in the United States in 2007: 1.65 to 1 ● Chance that a new job created in Canada since 2008 has been temporary: 1 in 2 ● Current percentage of jobs in Canada that are either temporary, […]
● Additional revenue raised each year if federal corporate taxes were at the same rate they were in 2007: $8 billion ● Annual cost of lifting all low-income seniors in Canada above the official poverty line: $1.4 billion ● Amount of legal costs currently faced by the Canadian government from NAFTA-based corporate lawsuits: $2.5 billion […]
● Year in which women legally became “persons” in Canada: 1929 ● Year in which Aboriginal people in Canada had the right to vote in federal elections: 1960 ● Chance that a Canadian is currently living under the poverty line: 1 in 10 ● Chance that a woman with a disability in Canada is: 1 […]
● Current household debt as a percentage of income in Canada: 154 ● Household debt as a percentage of income in the United States in 2008: 125 ● Number of Canadians who use a food bank each month: 750,000 ● Percentage increase in food bank usage in Canada since 2008: 31 ● Current monthly welfare […]
● Statistical correlation found globally since 1960 between free market economics and the fostering of democracy: 0 ● Percentage decline in the average number of hours worked per week in the United States between 1900 and 1950: 31 ● Average number of hours of work per week in 2012 if the workweek had declined by […]
● Year in which Canada signed a UN declaration stating “higher education shall be made equally accessible to all”: 1976 ● Between February and June 2012, number of student protest-related arrests made in Quebec: 2,500 ● Number of arrests made in Quebec after the implementation of the War Measures Act during the 1970 October Crisis: […]
● Chance that a Canadian worker has been bullied at least once a week for the past six months at their job: 2 in 5 ● Percentage of Canadians who believe that bullying should be considered a crime, even if no violence in involved: 65 ● Chance that a violent workplace incident with a female […]
● Percentage of total income earned by the richest 1% of Canadians in 1925: 13.2 ● Percentage today: 13.8 ● Top marginal income tax rate for the wealthiest Canadians in 1950: 80 ● Top marginal income tax rate for the wealthiest Americans in 1950: 91 ● Percentage of Afghan households that have electricity: 6 ● […]
● Number of Canadian newspapers that officially endorsed the Conservative Party during the 2011 federal election: 28 ● Number that officially endorsed the NDP, Liberal Party, Green Party and Bloc Quebecois combined: 3 ● Percentage of Canadians aged 18 to 29 who have downloaded music without paying for it: 78 ● Percentage of Canadians over […]
● Year in which Beatrice Webb first coined the term “collective bargaining”: 1891 ● Percentage of Canadians who believe that “poor people still have it pretty good”: 37 ● Percentage who believe that people are poor because they have “lower moral values”: 28 ● Fall in average housing prices in the United States between 1928 […]
● Rank of Canada in having the largest male to female pay gap in the entire OECD: 5 ● Percentage of average male income in Canada earned by women: 75 ● Percentage of average unionized male income in Canada earned by unionized women: 93 ● Year in which divorce became officially legal in Ireland: 1996 […]
● Number of Canadians who are officially unemployed: 1.4 million ● Number of net jobs added to the Canadian economy in October 2010: 3,000 ● Percentage of Canadians who currently “expect the economy to improve”: 18 ● Percentage of Americans who disapproved of interracial marriage in 1968: 73 ● Percentage who disapprove of legal recognition […]
● Estimated number of people arrested during the June 2010 G20 protests in Toronto: 1,000 ● Number of people arrested during the entire 1935 On-to-Ottawa Trek: 120 ● Percentage of Canadians who believe the $1 billion security costs of the G20 summit was “justified”: 11 ● Total worldwide profits made by Exxon Mobile in 2009: […]
● Year in which a Toronto Globe newspaper editorial stated that “Unions have outlived their usefulness”: 1886 ● Percentage of workers in Canada who belong to a union: 30 ● Number of new workers who must be unionized each year for Canada to maintain its 30% union density rate: 80,000 ● Estimated number of jobs […]
● Chance that an unemployed person in Canada today isn’t collecting employment insurance benefits: 1 in 2 ● Number of Canadians who are living in substandard housing that requires “minor or major repairs”: 3.3 million ● Percentage of housing investments promised by the federal government during the past 15 months that have been spent: 3 […]
● Year in which labour unions in Canada became legal: 1872 ● Chance that a homeless person in Toronto was born outside of Canada: 1 in 3 ● Of these, percentage that have vocational training or a college or university degree: 39 ● Chance that a homeless person in Toronto attempts suicide at least once […]
● Percentage of Canadians who say they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of respect for nurses: 97 ● Percentage of Canadians who say the same about business executives: 48 ● Number of prisoners locked in solitary confinement on any given day in the United States: 200,000 ● Percentage of them living with mental […]
● Percentage of Canadian workers who believe that “their employer is genuinely interested in their well-being”: 16 ● Hourly wage of workers at the R.L. Denim/Metro Group factory in Bangladesh, in cents: 11 ● Total compensation of Metro Group CEO Eckhard Cordes in 2008: $5,100,000 ● Amount of time Cordes would have to work to […]
● Percentage of Canadians who believe that unions “effectively improve salaries and working conditions for workers”: 78 ● Percentage change in the number of people using food banks in Ontario since 2001: +15 ● Estimated number of refugee claims the Canadian Department of Immigration will accept in 2009: 11,200 ● Average annual number of refugee […]
● Number of jobs in Canada that would be lost due to a 25 percent decline in auto exports: 155,000 ● Percentage change in Canadian auto exports during the last three months of 2008: – 19 ● Chance that a Canadian worker is “somewhat” or “very concerned” about losing their job this year: 1 in […]
● Chance that an employee in the world today works in a place that has “unhealthy and unsafe conditions”: 1 in 2 ● Number of workers who die globally each year from workplace risks and accidents: 1,900,000 ● Percentage of energy in Denmark produced by wind turbines: 19 ● Percentage of energy in Canada produced […]
● Percentage of the world’s labour force who are women: 41 ● Percentage of the world’s poor who are women: 70 ● Number of countries around the world where women’s wages are equal to those of men: 0 ● Chance that a minimum wage worker in Canada is female: 2 in 3 ● Chance that […]
● Percentage of Canadians who believe the economy will soon fall into a recession: 64 ● Percentage of Americans who believe the economy will soon fall into a depression: 59 ● Number of labour union activists throughout the world murdered in 2006: 144 ● Of these murders, number that took place in Colombia: 78 ● […]
