Billionaires

• Canadian security czar buys Napa winery for $57 million. It’s not his first

  California property and corporate records show that a Stephan Crétier-controlled company, SCW Fund Corp., acquired the 100-acre Vine Cliff Winery in Napa, Calif.

  Canada

  Oct 17, 2023
  
• Why Jagmeet Singh drones on about Jeff Bezos

  Jeff Bezos has become the perfect cannon fodder for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP ahead of the Sept. 20 vote, explains Carleton professor Randy Boswell.

  Commentary

  Sep 3, 2021
  
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• Total number of billionaires up 30% amid COVID-19 pandemic

  The report found 86 per cent of those on the list are more wealthy than they were just 12 months ago.

  Canada

  Apr 7, 2021
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• U.S. billionaires richer by $434 billion since coronavirus pandemic began: report

  Nearly 39 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the same time period.

  Data Desk

  May 21, 2020
• World’s richest 2,000 people control more money than poorest 4.6 billion: Oxfam

  In a report released ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Oxfam said it estimated that unpaid care work by women added at least $10.8 trillion a year in value to the world economy -- three times more than the tech industry.

  Economy

  Jan 19, 2020
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says ‘system that allows billionaires’ is immoral

  Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congressperson from Queens, says the “system” that creates billionaires is wrong.

  Politics

  Jan 22, 2019
• World’s richest 26 billionaires own as much money as 3.8 billion poorest people: Oxfam

  Billionaire fortunes increased by 12 per cent last year — or $2.5 billion a day.

  Economy

  Jan 20, 2019
• Jeff Bezos, other tech moguls lost billions in stock market plunge

  Collectively, the five tech firms lost $172 billion in just a few hours.

  Economy

  Oct 11, 2018
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• Billionaire boom: The 1% get richer, but experts are split whether that’s good or bad

  Oxfam released a report, saying there were 233 more individuals who became billionaires between April 2016 and March 2017, the highest in any year. 

  Consumer

  Jan 22, 2018
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• World’s wealthiest people made $320 billion in 2016

  The good news - a number of the world's wealthiest are known to be very generous.

  Money

  Dec 29, 2016