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To improve affordability and reduce poverty, Gen Squeeze has the best OAS reform plan

Andrea Long

November 10, 2025

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,...

Retirement

Globe & Mail: Time to fix the inflation indicator hobbling a generation of homebuyers

Paul Kershaw

Nov 08, 2025

Canada’s housing plan must expand beyond building more homes to fix a flaw that has long fuelled unaffordability: Statistics Canada’s underestimation of housing inflation in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Globe & Mail, Housing

Analysis of the 2025 Federal Budget: Who is being asked to sacrifice?

Andrea Long

Nov 06, 2025

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...

Budgets, Canada, Budget Analyses

Budget 2025: Who is being asked to sacrifice

Generation Squeeze

Nov 06, 2025

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...

Budgets, Podcast, Canada

Globe & Mail: A much-needed facelift for the upcoming federal budget

Paul Kershaw

November 03, 2025

In an era of large deficits and rising interest costs, our politicians need clearer priorities for how they spend scarce public dollars. Canada’s most expensive program, Old Age Security, has...

Budgets, Canada, Globe & Mail

Alberta’s Age Gap in Government Spending Lies at the Heart of the Teachers Strike

Paul Kershaw

October 16, 2025

Addressing the concerns of teachers, parents, and students now on display in the strike is a critical first step toward dismantling the structural ageism that has become routine in Alberta’s...

Alberta, Budgets

Beware those who invoke struggling seniors to pad six figure incomes

Generation Squeeze

October 15, 2025

The Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) proposes an increase to Canada's Old Age Security but it won’t lift most struggling seniors out of poverty. Yet, it would pad the...Read More

Podcast

Globe & Mail: A boost to OAS would help too little where it’s needed, and too much where it’s not

Paul Kershaw

October 14, 2025

The Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) proposes an increase to Canada's Old Age Security but it won’t lift most poor seniors out of poverty. Yet, it would pad the...

Globe & Mail, Retirement

Housing Subsidies for Multi-Millionaires - and Some Billionaires

Generation Squeeze

October 06, 2025

This article was researched and written by guest author Phil Webb. His views in this article are aligned with, but independent from, Generation Squeeze. Phil is Vancouver born and raised,...Read More

Housing

A National Strategy on Housing for Young Canadians

Andrea Long

September 30, 2025

MP Braedon Clark is asking Ottawa to develop a National Strategy on Housing for Young Canadians. It's a first step to confronting the generational tensions in our housing system.

Housing

Gen Z Doesn’t Need a Year of National Service. They’re Already Drafted into Decades of Service for Older Canadians.

Generation Squeeze

September 18, 2025

A recent poll shows that most Canadians — especially older ones — support requiring young adults to spend a year serving in areas like health, disaster response, or the environment....Read More

Podcast

Globe & Mail: Gen Z doesn’t need a year of national service. They’re already drafted into decades of service for older Canadians

Paul Kershaw

September 01, 2025

Younger Canadians already perform a critical national service: They pay more out of pocket, and sacrifice their standard of living, to protect healthy retirements for our aging population.

Globe & Mail

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To improve affordability and reduce poverty, Gen Squeeze has the best OAS reform plan

Andrea Long

November 10, 2025

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,...

Retirement

Paul Kershaw

September 01, 2025

Younger Canadians already perform a critical national service: They pay more out of pocket, and sacrifice their standard of living, to protect healthy retirements for our aging population.

Globe & Mail

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