August 2009 Archive Posts

CARP urges reform of all four retirement pillars; 88% favor retroactive TFSA contributions

August 17, 2009

August 17th 2009 Further to the previous blog on CARP, vice president advocacy Susan Eng has released CARP's pre-budget ...

Briefly: “Canada Continues to Shed Jobs” and More News

August 13, 2009

According to Statistics Canada, employment declined by 45,000 in July for both full-time and part-time workers. The ...

CARP tells politicos to fix boomers’ retirement or voters will retire them; likes retroactive TFSA idea

August 7, 2009

CARP - a national association representing the 50-plus generation -- is calling on politicians to protect the ...

How Does Canada’s Health System Actually Work?

August 7, 2009

OTTAWA ; Canadians can be of two minds about their public health care system. Tommy Douglas, a former premier of ...

Shona Holmes: The New Figurehead for the American Anti-Public Healthcare Campaign

August 7, 2009

Holmes is the new figurehead for the American anti-public healthcare campaign: she’s testified before Congress, ...

US Health Reform – Blame Canada?

August 7, 2009

Canadians must wonder how bad our health care system is if President Obama has to defend his health reform bill by ...

Advance Care Planning: Discussing future health care and treatment options is not an easy topic of conversation

August 7, 2009

A consequence of advances in nutrition and medicine is that people live longer – a lot longer. With longevity, ...

Healthcare reform may not be good for politicians’ health

August 7, 2009

It's no fun being the whipping boy for anti-government Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats. For once, Canada is the ...

CARP takes on ‘Home First’ Program

August 7, 2009

Home First is a health initiative designed to be “an approach to care that starts the discussion, upon admission ...

In Defence of Canadian Healthcare

August 7, 2009

Canada's health-care system has come in for a drubbing in the battle over U.S. health-care reform. Critics, many of ...