December 2010 Archive Posts

A Most Common Affliction: Lower Back Pain (Part 1)

December 23, 2010

Pain from the lower part of our bony spine is known as Low Back Pain (LBP). In the CARP survey we ran a couple of ...

December Flurries of Pension Activity

December 23, 2010

December 23, 2010 – Two weeks ago, everything was quiet on the pension reform front. It turns outs that months of ...

Important Notice – E-Health Ontario and your Privacy

December 23, 2010

December 2010 - Ontario’s Electronic Health system promises to ensure the free flow of information among health ...

Pension Reform post Kananaskis – When is a glass half full really half empty?

December 23, 2010

When is a glass half full really half empty? That‘s the best way to look at pension reform post-Kananaskis ...

Stepping It Up: Moving the Focus from Health Care in Canada to a Healthier Canada

December 23, 2010

The Health Council of Canada has just released a new report that says unless governments change their approach to ...

Jim Murta’s Comments on Kananaskis Meeting

December 23, 2010

Despite years of study, reports, hearings and consultations, and a clear need for change, the governments have once ...

Let’s take the CPP – and be creative

December 23, 2010

Originally published by CTV news. To go to their website please click here The outcome of this week’s Kananaskis ...

PRPP: An agreement to kick the can down the road and deliver more fees to Canada’s financial industry

December 23, 2010

In a nutshell This is an agreement to do nothing, except perhaps a handout to the financial services industry at the ...

Holiday Fun at CARP and Zoomer

December 23, 2010

Some fun videos from our CARP/ZoomerMedia holiday party last week. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and wishing you a ...

Nortel pensioners win right to invest with private-fund managers

December 23, 2010

Originally published in the Ottawa Citizen on December 18th, 2010. To go to the Ottawa Citizen website please click ...