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

Generation Squeeze

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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

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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

Toolkit to Reform Old Age Security

Generation Squeeze

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August 20, 2025

Use our toolkit to call on Ottawa to update Old Age Security, and bring Canada's retirement policy into the 21st century.

Toolkits, Retirement

Gen Squeeze calls for legislstion at landmark Canadian event

Generation Squeeze

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August 19, 2025

Gen Squeeze Founder Paul Kershaw joins Canadian and international thinkers to talk about why we need legislation to protect the wellbeing of all generations. Learn more about what Paul shared.

How Housing Affects Choice - A feedswap with Aborsh

Generation Squeeze

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August 19, 2025

This week's episode is a a feed swap with Aborsh – A podcast about abortion in Canada by playwright and podcaster Rachel Cairns. What do abortion and housing have in...Read More

Podcast, Housing, Family

Safeguard wellbeing for all generations toolkit

Generation Squeeze

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August 15, 2025

Here are the top ways you can help nudge the system to change in the direction we want, to build a Canada in which present and future generations can thrive.

Toolkits

Recommendations for the Carney government's first budget

Andrea Long

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August 15, 2025

The Carney government's first budget is expected in Fall 2025. Our 3 recommendations help Ottawa deliver cost savings while also meeting key policy objectives in generationally fair ways.

Budget Recommendations, Canada, Retirement, Budgets

Recommendations for the Fall 2025 Federal Budget

Generation Squeeze

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August 15, 2025

Canada can reduce pressure on the federal operating budget and manage rising defence costs without raising taxes. Here's our plan.

Budget Recommendations, Budget Analyses, Budgets, Canada

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

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

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

Toolkit to Reform Old Age Security

Gen Squeeze calls for legislstion at landmark Canadian event

How Housing Affects Choice - A feedswap with Aborsh

Safeguard wellbeing for all generations toolkit

Recommendations for the Carney government's first budget

Recommendations for the Fall 2025 Federal Budget

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

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

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

Toolkit to Reform Old Age Security

Gen Squeeze calls for legislstion at landmark Canadian event

How Housing Affects Choice - A feedswap with Aborsh

Safeguard wellbeing for all generations toolkit

Recommendations for the Carney government's first budget

Recommendations for the Fall 2025 Federal Budget

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

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