Reading Time: 3 minutes When the government makes employment more expensive, the sure result is fewer jobs
Tag: Retirement
There is no reason to stop living at 65
Reading Time: 3 minutes Retirement is a choice, so get out there and get involved
Do intentional communities make retirement sense?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Picturing a idyllic rural setting with exercise, freedom, stimulation – and support as needed. All crafted to cater to seniors
An old white man awakes to his privilege – and its power for good
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve become much more prone to analyze daily social situations on the grounds of age, ethnicity and gender
Why we shouldn’t worry about wealth inequality in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Age and accumulated wealth account for much of the discrepancy. And that’s just normal life-cycle economics
CPP’s perpetual head start
Reading Time: 3 minutes Private pensions face regulatory burdens that the Canada Pension Plan does not
The hard truth about CPP’s failures
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians receive meagre rates of return on CPP contributions and the program has other key shortcomings
Any pension fund fiasco is one too many
Reading Time: 4 minutes The plight of Sears pensioners has once again ignited calls for change but the federal government seems content to sit on its hands
Lessons from a contemplative life
Reading Time: 4 minutes At 67, I’m focusing on the things that are most important: family, friends, and challenging physical and mental pursuits
CPP reforms need a complete rethink
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 2016 CPP reforms were solutions in search of a problem – and don’t even solve the imagined problem