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Celebrating our 10th anniversary - part two

We continue the 10th anniversary discussion we began in the previous episode — chatting about we've been up to, some of the lessons we've learned along the way, and what...

Dec 18, 2022

Celebrating our 10th anniversary - part one

We registered gensqueeze.ca as our website in November 2012, which we're considering our birthday. So this episode features a look back at the origins of Gen Squeeze, how we've changed...

Dec 07, 2022

How Governments Have Underinvested in Younger People for 40 Years

Over four decades, governments have prioritized investing in older rather than younger generations, while their focus on medical care and retirement has largely ignored social programs for young people. This...

Feb 19, 2020

A #TaxShift to Benefit the Vast Majority

Why did we write this report? To restore housing affordability forever, we need to think big picture. We need to treat housing as Homes First (investments second). We need to...

May 16, 2018

Intergenerational Injustice in Canadian Public Finance

Like many countries, Canada has an aging population. While we have a duty to ensure our aging parents and grandparents have a dignified, healthy, and financially secure retirement, there is...

Jan 29, 2018

The Need for Health in All Policies In Canada

Where does our health begin? Health starts where we are born, grow, play, work and age, as established in a robust scientific literature summarized by the World Health Organization (WHO)...

Jan 22, 2018

A surgical intervention for the body politic

Generation Squeeze applies the Advocacy Coalition Framework to social determinants of health knowledge translation

Mar 01, 2017

Measuring the Age Gap in Canadian Social Spending

Why we wrote this report Canadian governments don't invest equally in people of different ages. We call this difference in social spending the "age gap" or the "generational spending gap." ...

Feb 06, 2015