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Let's Fix Old Age Security
Let's Fix Old Age Security
Join 3 in 4 Canadians calling for OAS subsidies to be based on need, not age. Making OAS responsible, modern and fair will save enough to eliminate seniors’ poverty and grow housing and income security for young and working people.
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Ageist provincial budgets fail the young
Ageist provincial budgets fail the young
Running deficits to fund medical care for seniors costs society overall
Analysis of the 2026 Alberta Budget
Analysis of the 2026 Alberta Budget
Premier Danielle Smith largely attributes Alberta's record $9-billion deficit to population growth. She's right to focus on demographics, but by concentrating on a population headcount rather than population aging, she misdiagnoses the source of fiscal strain. The result is a Budget that discriminates against children, parents, and young workers.
2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada - Campaign 2000
2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada - Campaign 2000
Investing in Tomorrow: A Future Without Poverty Campaign 2000 has released the 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, drawing on the latest national data to examine the state of child and family poverty across the country. More than two decades after Canada pledged to eliminate child…
2026 BC Budget Analysis
2026 BC Budget Analysis
The BC government says its 2026 budget safeguards essential services. But a closer look at the numbers reveals a troubling pattern: the province is working far harder to protect spending that benefits residents of retirement age than to invest in younger residents — all while leaving younger people with massive unpaid bills.
The oil companies are lying again | Max Fawcett
The oil companies are lying again | Max Fawcett
🦻🏽 Listen: Hard Truths Podcast
🦻🏽 Listen: Hard Truths Podcast
Generation Squeeze's Hard Truths podcast explores why our generational system is broken and how we can make Canada work fairly for all generations.
Building more homes alone won’t fix affordability.
Building more homes alone won’t fix affordability.
National Housing Strategy needs to expand policy to avoid housing speculation by the wealthy
A youth employment supplement?
A youth employment supplement?
A youth employment supplement to the Canada Workers Benefit could help young Canadians facing housing costs, debt and weak job prospects.
What Canadian seniors can do for younger generations
What Canadian seniors can do for younger generations
Douglas Todd: Seniors could lend a hand to millennials in many ways, including ideas about fairer tax, migration and pension policies
New Report: Medical Budgets in an Aging Canada
New Report: Medical Budgets in an Aging Canada
New report shows why protecting universal access now requires generationally fair revenue reform.
Progress Report on 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan
Progress Report on 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan
Toward a Stronger Democracy in BC (Vote16)
Toward a Stronger Democracy in BC (Vote16)
Max Fawcett: We’re not ready for an aging population — and it's going to cost us
Max Fawcett: We’re not ready for an aging population — and it's going to cost us
Canada's government budgets keep getting squeezed by our aging population. When are we going to do something about it?
CBC's Day 6 pod: Does the 'generational' budget really help all generations?
CBC's Day 6 pod: Does the 'generational' budget really help all generations?
Globe & Mail: Federal budget 2025 - Who is being asked to sacrifice?
Globe & Mail: Federal budget 2025 - Who is being asked to sacrifice?
The Carney government’s first budget does nothing to address the pressure point that is Old Age Security
Rentals.ca report on average rents in Canada
Rentals.ca report on average rents in Canada
Average asking rent in Canada fell to $2,030 in February, down 2.8% year-over-year to a 33-month low.
Our analysis of Canada's Budget 2025: A deep dive
Our analysis of Canada's Budget 2025: A deep dive
Budget 2025 sidesteps a hard truth: neither the Prime Minister who tabled it, nor the Opposition Leader who critiques it, has found the courage to ask financially secure retirees to share equally in this national moment of sacrifice.
Time to fix the inflation indicator hobbling a generation of homebuyers - The Globe and Mail
Time to fix the inflation indicator hobbling a generation of homebuyers - The Globe and Mail
Since 2000, average home prices have climbed about 319 per cent, while Statistics Canada’s CPI has risen only 69 per cent
Happiness of Canadians under 35 has nosedived
Happiness of Canadians under 35 has nosedived
How about we stop handing out billions to wealthy seniors? - The Globe and Mail
How about we stop handing out billions to wealthy seniors? - The Globe and Mail
Politicians ignore the fiscal firestorm an aging population threatens - The Globe and Mail
Politicians ignore the fiscal firestorm an aging population threatens - The Globe and Mail
Leave a Cleaner Legacy - Support the industrial price on carbon
Leave a Cleaner Legacy - Support the industrial price on carbon
Build Canada Homes: Missing the North Star
Build Canada Homes: Missing the North Star
How Mark Carney and the baby boomers can save Canada
How Mark Carney and the baby boomers can save Canada
Provinces have failed to prepare for boomers’ medical costs
Provinces have failed to prepare for boomers’ medical costs
Canada can't fix housing without compensating millennials and Gen Zs
Canada can't fix housing without compensating millennials and Gen Zs
Expand and Strengthen $10 a Day Child Care
Expand and Strengthen $10 a Day Child Care
Why you should give a &*!$ about provincial budgets
Why you should give a &*!$ about provincial budgets
We're on BlueSky! (@gensqueeze.bsky.social)
We're on BlueSky! (@gensqueeze.bsky.social)
Young people have it tougher: The Stats
Young people have it tougher: The Stats
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