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📰 En Une du @lemonde.fr aujourd'hui :

"L'extrême concentration des richesses mondiales"

3 article à lire pour découvrir en avant-première Le Rapport sur les inégalités mondiales 2026

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Employee-owned companies are better at riding out economic downturns—and Harvard Business School has the research to prove it.

Now it’s Canada’s turn to build our evidence base.

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Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us? That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.

I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

“Should our media system primarily serve democracy, or profit?”

NEW in @thenation.com: the team behind our new report argue the answer must be democracy—and lay out what it’ll take to break up corporate media and rebuild public media: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Observations from Montreal An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

“Canadians show a clear preference for allyship with Europe rather than the U.S. under the Trump administration. Canadians largely agree that Canada needs to move away from relying on the United States.”

Closing the Wealth Gap: The Solution Is Hiding in Plain Sight And the timing to make lasting change could not be better.

(Paywall) Great piece on the importance of employee ownership in combatting wealth inequality.

The Canadian government needs to realize that the uncertainty it is creating on this file is one of the big obstacles to unleashing a wave of employee ownership successions.

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World Inequality Report 2026 | Coming out soon - WID - World Inequality Database World Inequality Report 2026 | Coming out soon On December 10, 2025, the World Inequality Lab will release the 2026 World Inequality Report

Coming next week.
Stay tuned.
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#WIR2026 #InequalityData

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Screenshot of Canadian SME magazine story published on Dec. 2, 2025. Reads: "Unlocking Canadian prosperity through Employee Ownership Trusts." By Canadian SME Dec. 2, 2025. Photo of Elspeth Murray, Employee Ownership Research Initiative at Smith School of Business, Queen's University.

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"Employee-owned companies grow faster and generate higher profits than the norm. They’re more productive and more innovative and exhibit greater resilience when times are tough."

Read more: canadiansme.ca/unlocking-ca...

#SMEs #EOTs #EmployeeOwnership #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli

You can’t be sovereign if you don’t own anything Canada needs an ownership strategy, not just an investment strategy The day before the Canadian federal budget was introduced, a Canadian gold mining company called New Gold announced that it would be...

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Closing the Wealth Gap: The Solution Is Hiding in Plain Sight And the timing to make lasting change could not be better.

Employee ownership is not philanthropy.

It is a durable, market-tested strategy that drives growth, resilience and equity.

Employee-owned firms grow 2% faster than their peers and are half as likely to go bankrupt.

Read more 👇

#OwnershipMatters #EOTs #EO #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #EconSky

Employee-owned companies tend to weather economic downturns | Institute for Business in Global Society Research shows that employee-owned firms do better during recessions and other crises, which could prompt more businesses to consider it as an option.

Research from @harvard.edu shows that employee-owned firms do better during recessions and other crises than traditional companies.

Employee ownership is better for business.

Read more: www.hbs.edu/bigs/employe...

#OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli #CanadaStrong #EOTs

Are you working to build a fairer world? 🌍

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 Atlantic Fellows for Social & Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme, a funded fellowship for social change leaders at the London School of Economics - LSE.

Learn more: afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/news/a...

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Burgundy graphic with white text and logos reads: the ownership solution "Employee ownership offers a powerful opportunity to broaden prosperity and strengthen communities." Social Capital Partners

ICYMI, this week Smith School of Business at Queen's U. launched a research initiative to deepen Canada’s knowledge of a powerful succession model that can enhance outcomes for owners, employees and communities: employee ownership.

Stay tuned!

#CdnPoli #OwnershipMatters #EO

Some countries yell their way through the world. This year, the world leaned toward the one that did not.

How intergenerational inequality threatens trust in democracy | Policy Options Our political leaders must be willing to make difficult tradeoffs to rebalance policies toward the young and away from older Canadians, write Jean-François Daoust, Liam O'Toole and Jacob Robbins-Kante...

Intergenerational inequality is corroding 🍁's democracy.

If we want a healthy democracy, we have to stop treating young people like a special interest group and start treating them like what they are: the future of the electorate and the economy.

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#CdnPoli #Canadasky #EconSky

Protesters disrupt Ontario legislature over controversial landlord legislation Protesters chanted "people over profits" in the Ontario legislature's public galleries Monday after Premier Doug Ford's government passed a bill critics say will favour landlords over tenants.

Protesters chanted "people over profits" at Queen's Park Monday after Premier Doug Ford's government passed a bill critics say will favour landlords over tenants.

Ford shouted back: "Go find a job."

CEISI - Employee Ownership Research Initiative A multi-disciplinary network of research and professional development that strives to shape a ‘Made in Canada’ approach to Employee Ownership policies and programs.

Visit the Employee Ownership Research Institute's site: smith.queensu.ca/centres/ceis...

🚨Canada has an #EO research institute!🚨

At the Smith School of Business, the EORI will provide evidence to drive awareness, knowledge and know-how so Canadian owners, workers and communities can reap the benefits of employee ownership.

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Spoiler alert: my answer is NO.

@vassb.bsky.social and @kaylietiessen.bsky.social, now everywhere we look we see SHIELD scores! 🍁

We can redesign how our economy is owned so more Canadians benefit.

Ownership. It's a thang.

#OwnershipMatters #Sovereignty #Succession #EconomicSecurity #WealthEquality #EconSky #CanadaSky #CdnPoli

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Elbows up: Keeping Canadian companies in Canadian hands | Policy Options Blue Jays pride notwithstanding, many of Canada's most iconic companies and brands have been quietly but steadily purchased by foreign entities in recent years. As Danny Parys writes in Policy Options...

In recent years, many of Canada’s most iconic companies have been quietly purchased by foreign entities.

Beyond wounds to our national pride, this pattern is a disaster for workers and consumers.

If we #WANTITALL, we have to stop letting foreign entities steal home.

#CdnPoli #OwnershipMatters

Consumer watchdog boss quits, alleging months of unpaid wages - The Logic Former executive director says he voluntarily went without compensation to keep Public Interest Advocacy Centre financially afloat

Many working Canadians cannot afford daily life. We need PIAC -- but we need organizations like PIAC to be properly funded so they can do their work protecting consumers.

thelogic.co/news/consume...

Prime Minister Carney welcomes the King and Queen of Sweden to Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario.

The ties between Canada and Sweden are founded on shared values and decades of cooperation in defence, trade, and investment.

To expand that further, we just launched a new strategic partnership to connect our industries and workers in key sectors like critical minerals, clean energy, and defence.

Sweden’s Saab offers to build entire GlobalEye military surveillance plane in Canada Building the aircraft in Canada would create 3,000 jobs, company says

There are some things happening in the world that make me hopeful. This is one of them.

Stronger alliances between democratic nations.

Sweden’s Saab offers to build entire GlobalEye military surveillance plane in Canada - The Globe and Mail share.google/qDQY1katb0Gz...

Strong Sevens on Instagram: "We’d watch this #hallmark #christmasmovies #fyp #hallmarkmovies #holidays" A Hallmark movie featuring a heartwarming story of family, love, and the true meaning of Christmas. The movie follows a family's journey as they navigate the challenges of the holiday season, ultimate...

Sometimes it takes a "reverse Hallmark movie" to drive home the pervasive ills of private equity and how it steals more from families and communities than the holiday spirit.

#PrivateEquity #Hallmark #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli #EconSky

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Already happening with Parkland Corporation being sold off to Sunoco LP. Layoffs of Canadians immediately followed, and now critical infrastructure is owned by our aggressive, fascist neighbour.

"In March, the government introduced changes to the Investment Canada Act to strengthen its ability to review foreign takeovers. Everything about our history tells us that the Sunoco deal is exactly the kind of foreign investment that would threaten Canada’s long-term economic competitiveness."