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Protecting universal access to healthcare in Canada will require a revenue discussion. Since younger generations already pay 20 to 40% more income taxes toward older people’s well-being than boomers did at the same age, financially secure retirees may need to make up for lost time through annual medical-care premiums collected through the tax system.

Both the Ottawa’s budget and the newly signed Canada–Alberta MOU reaffirm the commitment to strengthen industrial pollution pricing – meaningful progress that should be acknowledged. Yet the deal between Ottawa and Alberta creates environmental risks (weaker national standards), political risks (emboldening provinces to push for further carve-outs), and economic risks (reduced investor certainty). Each of these makes it harder to meet Canada’s climate goals – and easier for today’s pollution to become tomorrow’s multibillion-dollar bill for younger people.

During a housing affordability crisis, all available policy tools should be aimed a lowering costs for Canadians. Along with other financial and housing leaders, we're asking the Bank of Canada to update it's approach to housing price inflation to make sure this harmful trend informs monetary and interest rate decisions.

A new report from the Generation Squeeze Lab at UBC challenges one of Canada’s most common health-care narratives: that long wait times are the result of a “doctor shortage.”

Something important shifted this federal budget season. For years, Generation Squeeze was a lone voice warning that Old Age Security absorbs more tax dollars than any other line in Ottawa’s budget, crowding out other investments and driving the deficit. Now, a growing number of commentators are sounding the same alarm. Inside government, the politics are shifting, too.

Medical care is the largest expense in every provincial budget. As boomers age and live longer, costs have risen sharply - without matching updates to revenue. Despite this, the fiscal impact of population aging is rarely discussed openly. A new Gen Squeeze study helps Canadians understand what it will take to protect universal access for every generation.

Budget 2025 promises historic action on housing. But buried in the fine print is a surprise: Presently, Ottawa plans to shrink capital investments for housing in the coming years.

Like the Canadian Association of Retired Persons and the Bloc Québécois, we want to make changes to Old Age Security. However, the reforms Gen Squeeze proposes will achieve far more, at a lower cost.

Gen Squeeze is siding with brave retirees who are calling for the changes we need to eliminate seniors’ poverty and grow income and housing security for younger and working age Canadians. In this guest blog, Shelia Regehr calls out the retiree lobby for its fearmongering about OAS reforms, and offers a vision of a Canada that works for all generations.