Generation Squeeze's Hard Truths
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Gen Squeeze's Hard Truths brings you the untold story about why basic life milestones – like owning a home, raising a family, and living on a habitable planet – are slipping out of reach for younger Canadians and explores how we can make this country work more fairly for all generations. Learn more at https://www.gensqueeze.ca/
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- Affordability Now · 14 mntMark Carney’s economic plan for Building Canada Strong is a medium-term project but Canadians shouldn’t have to wait years for meaningful financial relief. Generation Squeeze…
- Is Canada Failing the Next Generation? - Power Lines with Max Fawcett · 41 mnt“Is Canada Failing the Next Generation?” Generation Squeeze founder, Dr. Paul Kershaw joins award-winning lead columnist at the National Observer, Max Fawcett on his podcast…
- Young Canadians are miserable. Here's why.... · 17 mntGovernment budgets shape how we live – and how we feel. The consequences of government policy choices can be seen in new research on happiness. While, baby boomers remain…
- Old Age Security: National Poll Reveals Majority Want Change · 17 mntOld Age Security is the largest program expense in the federal budget and is a driving force behind the federal deficit. A new national poll shows 3/4 of Canadians, including…
- Canada Must Renew its National Housing Strategy · 15 mntCanada’s National Housing Strategy is the federal government’s main plan for tackling housing affordability. The strategy expires in 2027. If it isn’t renewed, federal housing…
- National Security Requires Financial Security for Millennials and Gen Z · 10 mntCanada’s Armed Forces have reportedly begun modelling responses to a U.S. invasion. Among the ideas said to be under consideration is a civil defence corps – potentially a…
- Cash subsidies should be targeted. Essential services, universal. · 15 mntMost gains from economic growth today flow to prioritiestied to older Canadians — retirement income support (Old Age Security) and medical care — leaving less for housing, child…
- Generational Fairness - A feedswap with Planetary Conversations · 53 mntThis week's episode is a feed swap with Planetary Conversations– with host Warren Bell. Planetary Conversations is a podcast that showcases ways to create a world where everyone…
- Why Your Rent, Child Care Fees, and Taxes Are Rising: The Medical-Care Crunch · 16 mntIt’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 pod…
- Financial Facelift: Fixing Old Age Security · 12 mntMost Canadians 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…
- GenSqueeze joins CBC’s Day 6 to talk structural ageism in Canada’s budget · 12 mntThe Generation Squeeze analysis of Canada’s Budget 2025 is getting a lot of media attention! That’s because we’re pointing out a hard truth: The fiscal imbalance in budget 2025…
- Canada's Budget 2025: Who is being asked to sacrifice? · 7 mntBudget 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…
- Beware those who invoke struggling seniors to pad six figure incomes. · 9 mntThe 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…
- Gen Z Doesn’t Need a Year of National Service. · 13 mntA recent poll shows that most Canadians — especially olderones — support requiring young adults to spend a year serving in areas like health, disaster response, or the…
- How Housing Affects Choice - Feedswap with Aborsh, a podcast about abortion in Canada · 1 jam 9 mntThis week's episode is a feed swap with Aborsh – A podcastabout abortion in Canada, by playwright and podcaster Rachel Cairns. What do abortion and housing have in common? Well…
- More mortgage-free young Canadians is a worrisome sign · 13 mntHome ownership among young Canadians (under age 35) has recently surged to 44%, the highest level in five decades! 18% of them are mortgage-free. Generation Squeeze founder, Dr…
- Do housing prices need to fall? It's the one question that all politicians dodge. · 8 mntCanadian 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…
- Compensating Millennials and Gen Z for Canada’s bad housing bargain · 13 mntFor 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…
- Hard Truths about the 2025 Federal Election: Are you being duped? · 43 mntEmma Buchanan of Visual Change Video sits down with Gen Squeeze Founder Paul Kershaw to discuss Elxn 45 through the lens of generational fairness and Gen Squeeze’s election…
- BC Election: Deficits & Taxes with Marc Lee · 19 mnt · Musim 3For our last election bonus, we dip into the sexiest of ballot issues: deficits and taxes. Our guest is Marc Lee, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy…
