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Generation Squeeze's Hard Truths — 78 episodes

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Is Canada Failing the Next Generation? - Power Lines with Max Fawcett

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Young Canadians are miserable. Here's why....

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Old Age Security: National Poll Reveals Majority Want Change

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Canada Must Renew its National Housing Strategy

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National Security Requires Financial Security for Millennials and Gen Z

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Cash subsidies should be targeted. Essential services, universal.

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Generational Fairness - A feedswap with Planetary Conversations

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Why Your Rent, Child Care Fees, and Taxes Are Rising: The Medical-Care Crunch

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Financial Facelift: Fixing Old Age Security

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GenSqueeze joins CBC’s Day 6 to talk structural ageism in Canada’s budget

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Canada's Budget 2025: Who is being asked to sacrifice?

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Beware those who invoke struggling seniors to pad six figure incomes.

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Gen Z Doesn’t Need a Year of National Service.

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How Housing Affects Choice - Feedswap with Aborsh, a podcast about abortion in Canada

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More mortgage-free young Canadians is a worrisome sign

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Do housing prices need to fall? It's the one question that all politicians dodge.

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Compensating Millennials and Gen Z for Canada’s bad housing bargain

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Hard Truths about the 2025 Federal Election: Are you being duped?

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BC Election: Deficits & Taxes with Marc Lee

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BC Election: Housing with Thom Armstrong

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BC Election: Child Care with Rita Chudnovsky

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Fixing parental leave - with Lisa Wolff

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Minister Chrystia Freeland on restoring Canada's promise to Millennials & Gen Z

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Prime Minister Trudeau: How do we not let younger Canadians down?

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Easing The Squeeze in England - with Liz Emerson

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Curing Canada's sickness care system - with André Picard

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Taxes, deficits, and Canada's fiscal reckoning - with Sean Speer

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Big news! Why we're feeling optimistic about the federal budget

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Asking homeowners to own their wealth and put it to work - with Michelle Cyca

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"The Millennial Pollster" on housing, cost of living and climate

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Priced-out mayor speaks out about the housing crisis

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Reducing time at work for better balance with Joe O'Connor

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"We're not alone" #1: Younger Australians aren't getting "a fair go" either

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How can we make governments stop "mortgaging the future"?

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Canada's housing villains? Look in the mirror - with Max Fawcett

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Canada's housing crisis: facing hard truths to find solutions

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Wales' Future Generations Commissioner on acting today for a better tomorrow

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Fending off climate despair with Elin Kelsey

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Canadians' new right to a healthy environment

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Jagmeet Singh on generational unfairness harming younger Canadians

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Talking constructively about climate change

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Medical Budgets and Boomers

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Gen Squeeze on Parliament Hill

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The child care staffing crisis w/ Emma Arkell

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Reframing the health care debate

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Hope for change w/ Kareem Kudus

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Andrew Tate and our broken intergenerational system

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Love Letter: Are we being too nice?

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Sacrificing the Greenbelt to build homes

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Our work advising governments

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Celebrating our 10th anniversary - part 2

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Celebrating our 10th anniversary - Part 1

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Celebrating stalling home prices

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Majority of Canadians support a price on housing inequity

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Championing intergenerational fairness w/ Elizabeth May

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The economic costs of climate change w/ Caroline Lee

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Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and government budgets: a Halloween special!

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Can our elected officials become #GenFairnessChampions?

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The good and the bad of Pierre Poilievre's intergenerational analysis

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"Are you saying I did something wrong?": what role regret, blame, and guilt have in restoring generational fairness

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Campus affordability

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The 'boomer bulge' and better budgeting: interview with Bill Robson

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Celebrating $10aDay child care: interview with Lynell Anderson

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"Taxes are essential for a properly functioning society": an interview with Dr. DT Cochrane

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Inbox insights: responses to our housing surtax proposal

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Why we need to tax million-dollar-home owners

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Taxing empty homes worked in BC: interview with Jen St. Denis

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How mismeasuring inflation fuels the housing crisis: an interview with Kareem Kudus

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Cutting Canada's carbon emissions: an interview with Dave Sawyer

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Inbox Insights: the angry folder

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The Sofa Session: Democracy needs to work for all generations

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Inflation and the Affordability Plan through an intergenerational lens

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Making sense of voter apathy

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Interview with Sean Speer: Younger generations aren't getting their fair share of Canada's budget pie

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Bonus: Breaking down budget 2022

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Busting the myth of the lazy millennial

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Bonus: How can Canada stop skyrocketing home prices?

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Generational fairness? What the #$@!% is that?