Globe & Mail: Lowering the Old Age Security income threshold is no longer politically taboo

Paul Kershaw

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March 27, 2026

Originally published in The Globe & Mail on March 6, 2026 Seniors are a powerful voting block, one that many commentators believe helped the Carney Liberals win the last election....Read More

Opinion Polling, Globe & Mail, Retirement

New poll: Canadians want to fix retirement income subsidies to tackle affordability

Generation Squeeze

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March 18, 2026

New poll confirms Canadians want to fix retirement income subsidies to tackle affordability. Now it's time for Ottawa to act.

Retirement, Opinion Polling

Retirees urge CARP to meet with Gen Squeeze on OAS reform

Andrea Long

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January 28, 2026

We were inspired in December by the leadership of two Gen Squeeze supporters. As members of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP), they reached out to CARP President Anthony...

Retirement

New publication delivers the evidence behind OAS reform

Andrea Long

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January 26, 2026

New study delivers the evidence behind Gen Squeeze's plan to make Old Age Security responsible, modern, and fair.

Retirement

Globe & Mail: The politics of Old Age Security reform are shifting

Paul Kershaw

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November 28, 2025

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...

Retirement, Budgets, Globe & Mail

Financial Facelift: Fixing Old Age Security

Jennifer Fox

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November 27, 2025

Many citizens believe that Canada's Old Age Security benefits act as a safety net, lifting struggling retirees out of poverty. But in this episode of the Hard Truths pod, Generation...Read More

Podcast, Retirement

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

Andrea Long

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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

Guest Blog Calling out Fearmongering by the Retiree Lobby

Generation Squeeze

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November 10, 2025

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...

Retirement

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

Paul Kershaw

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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

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

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.

Retirement, 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

Globe & Mail: It’s time to reform Old Age Security - and a scathing auditor’s report confirms it

Paul Kershaw

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December 16, 2024

Ottawa bureaucrats have no idea whether Canada's most expensive program – Old Age Security (OAS) – is meeting its objectives. This stunning finding leads to a number of critical questions...

Globe & Mail, Retirement

Globe & Mail: Millennials pay higher taxes for boomers’ retirement - and the burden is only going to increase

Paul Kershaw

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November 15, 2024

The typical 35-year-old Canadian now pays approximately 20-per-cent to 40-per-cent more for boomers’ healthy retirements than boomers paid as young people to support seniors in their day. This extra tax...

Retirement, Globe & Mail

Globe & Mail: Our kids think we’re rigging the system against them

Paul Kershaw

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July 18, 2024

Ongoing over-extraction of shared environmental resources, wealth from the housing system, and young people’s tax dollars gives a majority of Millennials and Gen Z good reason to believe that previous...

Globe & Mail, Housing, Retirement

The Globe & Mail: Protect OAS by eliminating outdated tax shelters for retirees

Generation Squeeze

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October 22, 2023

The sustainability of OAS is under threat as our population ages. Ottawa should review outdated tax shelters for retirees that drain billions in revenue and could otherwise help cover rising...

Globe & Mail, Retirement

"We have an ageist federal government"

Generation Squeeze

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September 11, 2023

Gen Squeeze supporter Mary Peirson (MD, CCFP) recently wrote to us, “We have an ageist federal government – one that favours older Canadians and retirees in particular.” Here's one brave...

Retirement, Canada, Budgets

The Globe & Mail: Boomers didn’t live within their means. And younger generations will pay the price.

Paul Kershaw

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March 20, 2023

Finances for younger Canadians would be much better had boomers lived within their means. But the data show otherwise. It’s time for boomers to own up to this part of...

Globe & Mail, Retirement