Health & Wellbeing at Generation Squeeze

Globe & Mail: How to ensure universal health care stays that way

Paul Kershaw

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January 06, 2026

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...

Health & Wellbeing, Budgets, Globe & Mail

Why Your Rent, Child Care Fees, and Taxes Are Rising: The Medical-Care Crunch

Generation Squeeze

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December 08, 2025

It’s no secret, GenZ and Millennial Canadians are finding it harder and harder to afford the basics: rent, child care fees and tuition. In this episode of the Hard Truths...Read More

Health & Wellbeing, Budgets, Podcast

The Doctor Shortage “Myth”

Andrea Long

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December 02, 2025

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.”

Budgets, Health & Wellbeing

Boomer Medical Costs Flip Provincial Budgets from Surplus to Deficit

Andrea Long

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November 26, 2025

Medical care is the largest expense in every provincial budget. As the population ages, costs have risen sharply - without matching updates to revenue. A new Gen Squeeze study helps...

Budgets, Health & Wellbeing

Medical Budgets in an Aging Canada

Generation Squeeze

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November 26, 2025

New report shows why protecting universal access now requires generationally fair revenue reform.

Health & Wellbeing, Budgets

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

Ryan Vandecasteyen

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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

Our Comprehensive Policy Game Plan to Invest Where Health Begins

Ryan Vandecasteyen

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August 22, 2022

Health & Wellbeing

The Need for Health in All Policies In Canada

Generation Squeeze

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January 22, 2018

Where does our health begin? Health starts where we are born, grow, play, work and age, as established in a robust scientific literature summarized by the World Health Organization (WHO)...Read More

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