New data reveals Canada’s senior population is expected to exceed 11 million people by 2043. This rapid rise in the number of older Canadians will have wide-reaching implications on sectors such as health care and employment, with experts sounding the alarm that Canada is not prepared to handle an aging population.

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    11 months ago

    No, because we’re still refusing to tax at the level needed to maintain services. We’ll try anything–anything–except returning marginal tax rates to 1960-something levels and building things directly.

    Because doing the right thing would mean the 30-year-plus neoliberal experiment was a failure, and all we did was make rich people richer.