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Alberta's 2025 budget commits to big spending on medical care. The wasteful deficit-spending is made worse by an income tax cut, which constrains investment in younger residents, including for housing and protecting the planet’s health. The overall fiscal pattern in Alberta reveals a startling degree of ageism toward younger residents.

Canadians' enduring support for paying for pollution provides a key tool to fight the tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump. Canada should impose a carbon tariff that targets the United States' dirtiest companies – and do so to stand up for our kids and country.

Habitual demands for lower taxes and higher government spending to win our vote will leave our beloved country vulnerable to a wide range of international, domestic and environmental threats.

How it is that we’ve so wildly underestimated Canadians’ willingness to take responsibility for paying for our pollution? Check out the surprising results from our latest poll.

We must recognize the relative privilege that owning a home provides to our personal finances, and acknowledging that this privilege implies obligations. The obligation may be to expect less, or pay more.

Gen Squeeze's budget recommendations point the way to intergenerational solidarity in budgeting.

Ottawa bureaucrats have no idea whether Canada's most expensive program – Old Age Security (OAS) – is meeting its objectives. This stunning finding leads to a number of critical questions that must be answered before the next budget.

Old Age Security (OAS) rules incentivize affluent Canadian retirees to squeeze out every last drop of government assistance, even when they have no need for cash subsidies. Financial advisers aren’t the problem. Nor are individuals . The problem is the policy incentives that invite people to game the OAS system.

New global, national and provincial commitments make 2024 a stand-out year for generational fairness. This Global Intergenerational Fairness Day, young and old Canadians alike should take pride in the progress we’ve made. Join us in marking the day on November 16.