Retirement Income Security Posts

CARP Advocacy Report 2012 at a Glance: The Year in Media

November 2, 2012

If ever CARP needed effective access to the media, it was in 2012 when the federal government was poised to make a ...

Tim Harper: NDP looks to tap a powerful vault of votes

October 30, 2012

OTTAWA—The next federal election remains somewhere over the rainbow and it is a mug’s game to anticipate what ...

NDP would restore OAS to 65, says Mulcair

October 30, 2012

TORONTO -- An NDP government would reverse changes to old age security by restoring the retirement age to 65 instead of ...

NDP defends seniors advocacy group from charges of partisan bias

October 30, 2012

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being asked to explain why he allowed a Conservative MP to accuse Canada’s largest ...

Mulcair’s Letter to CARP about Stephen Harper’s Cuts to Old Age Security

October 19, 2012

October 19th 2012: It was just this past winter, at a conference in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Stephen Harper ...

More health care doesn’t mean better health

September 4, 2012

There have been remarkable improvements in life expectancy over the past 100 years. The reasons are many: sanitary ...

Marathon House of Commons Voting Session Results in More of the Same

June 15, 2012

In a last ditch effort to see some changes to the most controversial elements of the Federal Government’s large ...

Senate Committee Presentation on Omnibus Bill C-38

June 15, 2012

Thursday June 7, 2012 – CARP presented before the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance on OAS changes in ...

Census: As Canada ages, 65 no longer gateway to the golden years

June 11, 2012

This article was published by The Province on May 29th 2012.  To see this article and other related articles on ...

CARP’s OAS Poll in the Spotlight

May 25, 2012

From Rabble.ca: "Time for big ideas: Imagine Canada after Harper" Stephen Harper, too, shall pass into history. But ...