Retirement Income Security Posts

2011 National Household Survey on Seniors’ Income and Caregivers

September 20, 2013

Statistics Canada released last week findings from the 2011 National Household Survey and their study on caregivers ...

NDP will support a GIS Increase and a Reversal of the OAS Age Eligibility Increase

April 19, 2013

April 14th, 2013: The NDP  just wrapped up its National Convention in Montreal held at the majestic Palais du ...

Now was the best time to act on CPP-Enhancement – Political landscape may change by June

December 18, 2012

CPP Enhancement is still on the table. That's the good news. CARP members will be disappointed that the Finance ...

Thomas Mulcair Answers CARP’s Questions at Annual General Meeting

November 2, 2012

November 2, 2012 –The CARP Annual General Meeting has become a mandatory destination for Canada’s political ...

CARP Advocacy Year in Review 2012: Pushing Back and Pushing Ahead

November 2, 2012

November 2, 2012 - Elections are important to advocates because politicians have to be seen to be addressing our ...

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 ...