Monday Apr. 21, 2014 – 12pm
Posted Apr 21, 2014 02:54:17 PM.
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12:00pm- Mary Cornish, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
TOPIC: Last year, the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office, began tracking two key trends in its 2013 report, 10 Ways to Close Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap: (1) the pay gap between men and women in Ontario and, (2) the date in the calendar year that demarcates how much longer women have to work to earn the amount that men earn in a year. This year’s report examines whether there has been any change in the pay gap and denotes a troubling development. A year later, we find the gap has grown to 31.5% — on average, women made 68.5 cents for every man’s dollar in 2011. This is the price of inaction. In dollar terms: men’s average annual earnings increased by $200 “from $48,800 in 2010 to $49,000 in 201” but women’s average earnings decreased by $1,400 — from $35,000 in 2010 to $33,600 in 2011.
12:30pm- Jonah Keri, Baseball Writer and Author of “Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos”
TOPIC: The definitive history of the Montreal Expos by the definitive Expos fan, the New York Times bestselling sportswriter and Grantland columnist Jonah Keri. 2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team’s move to Washington, DC. But the memories aren’t dead–not by a long shot. The Expos pinwheel cap is still sported by Montrealers, former fans, and by many more in the US and Canada as a fashion item. Expos loyalists are still spotted at Blue Jays games and wherever the Washington Nationals play (often cheering against them). Every year there are rumours that Montreal–as North America’s largest market without a baseball team–could host Major League Baseball again.
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