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David Hulchanski: Hulchanski and City

david hulchanski: U of T professor David Hulchanski has done a lot of work on the city's demographics, especially relating to income, according to Toronto Star. Colin McConnell / Toronto Star file photo The new charts come from University of Toronto Prof. New demographic charts show a strikingly segregated city, with visible minorities concentrated in low-income neighbourhoods and white residents dominating affluent areas in numbers far higher than their share of the population. David Hulchanski and his research team, known for using census data to illustrate growing income inequality in the city. It's starker than we would expect, Hulchanski said in an interview. Their latest effort flags the role of discrimination in that inequality, with lopsided racial breakdowns that surprised the researchers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.