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Why an increase in mortgage-free young people is a worrisome sign

Generation Squeeze

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July 23, 2025

Home ownership among young Canadians (under age 35) has recently surged to 44%, the highest level in five decades! 18% of them are mortgage-free. In this episode of the Hard Truths...Read More

Podcast, Housing

Do housing prices need to fall? It's the one question that all politicians dodge.

Generation Squeeze

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July 07, 2025

Canadian politicians are sidestepping the most important – and politically dangerous – question in our housing debate: Should home prices rise, stall or fall? Until we answer it, we can’t...Read More

Housing, Podcast

Globe & Mail: Provinces have so far failed to prepare for boomers’ medical costs, but it’s not too late

Paul Kershaw

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June 27, 2025

Medical care is the largest expense in every provincial budget across Canada. The demand for medical care will continue to surge as boomers age through the system. Canadians and governments...

Health & Wellbeing, Budgets, Globe & Mail

Compensating Millennials and Gen Z for Canada’s bad housing bargain

Generation Squeeze

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June 23, 2025

For decades, Canada's politicians have been protecting the wealth gains of primarily older homeowners at the cost of affordable housing for the generations who follow. Younger Canadians are stuck with...Read More

Housing, Podcast

Globe & Mail: Why an increase in mortgage-free young people is a worrisome sign

Paul Kershaw

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June 12, 2025

Home ownership among young Canadians (under age 35) has recently surged to 44%, the highest level in five decades! 18% of them are mortgage-free. This indicates Canada may be drifting...

Globe & Mail, Housing

Carney’s housing ambition doesn’t include a goal for home prices

Generation Squeeze

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June 12, 2025

Ottawa recently released what it describes as the “most ambitious” housing plan in over 75 years. In many ways, it delivers. But for all its ambition on building homes, the...

Housing, Canada

How Ageism Shapes Canada’s Future — and Why We Need Change

Generation Squeeze

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June 07, 2025

Ageism isn’t just something older adults experience. In Canada, our public policy choices often contain an unseen bias against younger generations — Millennials and Gen Z — that quietly shapes...Read More

Globe & Mail: The one question that all politicians dodge: Do housing prices need to fall?

Paul Kershaw

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June 02, 2025

Canadian politicians are sidestepping the most important – and politically dangerous – question in our housing debate: Should home prices rise, stall or fall? Until we answer it, we can’t...

Globe & Mail, Housing

Analysis of the 2025 Ontario budget

Generation Squeeze

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May 20, 2025

Lack of age-based data allows Ontario budget to avoid acting on key fiscal challenges Ontario’s 2025 budget projects a $14.6 billion deficit. It’s striking that this shortfall is so close...Read More

Budget Analyses, Ontario, Budgets

Good Ancestor Toolkit to Defend the Industrial Pollution Price

Generation Squeeze

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May 16, 2025

Ask governments to protect and strengthen pollution pricing - because we all want to be remembered as good ancestors to the kids and grandchildren we love.

Climate, Toolkits

2025 Federal Election: Substance Not Slogans

Generation Squeeze

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April 24, 2025

Emma Buchanan of Visual Change Video sits down with Gen Squeeze Founder Paul Kershaw to discuss Elxn 45. We dive into: The magical thinking behind party promises to cut taxes...Read More

Podcast, Elections, Canada, Budgets

Most Canadians support our plan to update a 75 year old program & and fix the federal budget

Andrea Long

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March 20, 2025

Three-quarters of Canadians support asking retirees with incomes over $100k to take less from taxpayers via Old Age Security (OAS) payments, and using the savings to eliminate seniors’ poverty, invest...Read More

Retirement, Opinion Polling

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Why an increase in mortgage-free young people is a worrisome sign

Do housing prices need to fall? It's the one question that all politicians dodge.

Globe & Mail: Provinces have so far failed to prepare for boomers’ medical costs, but it’s not too late

Compensating Millennials and Gen Z for Canada’s bad housing bargain

Globe & Mail: Why an increase in mortgage-free young people is a worrisome sign

Carney’s housing ambition doesn’t include a goal for home prices

How Ageism Shapes Canada’s Future — and Why We Need Change

Globe & Mail: The one question that all politicians dodge: Do housing prices need to fall?

Analysis of the 2025 Ontario budget

Good Ancestor Toolkit to Defend the Industrial Pollution Price

2025 Federal Election: Substance Not Slogans

Most Canadians support our plan to update a 75 year old program & and fix the federal budget

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Why an increase in mortgage-free young people is a worrisome sign

Do housing prices need to fall? It's the one question that all politicians dodge.

Globe & Mail: Provinces have so far failed to prepare for boomers’ medical costs, but it’s not too late

Compensating Millennials and Gen Z for Canada’s bad housing bargain

Globe & Mail: Why an increase in mortgage-free young people is a worrisome sign

Carney’s housing ambition doesn’t include a goal for home prices

How Ageism Shapes Canada’s Future — and Why We Need Change

Globe & Mail: The one question that all politicians dodge: Do housing prices need to fall?

Analysis of the 2025 Ontario budget

Good Ancestor Toolkit to Defend the Industrial Pollution Price

2025 Federal Election: Substance Not Slogans

Most Canadians support our plan to update a 75 year old program & and fix the federal budget

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