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Generation Squeeze's Hard Truths — 79 episodes

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Affordability Now

2

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.

8

Generational Fairness - A feedswap with Planetary Conversations

9

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

10

Financial Facelift: Fixing Old Age Security

11

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.

14

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

15

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.

18

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

19

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

27

Curing Canada's sickness care system - with André Picard

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

Priced-out mayor speaks out about the housing crisis

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

Fending off climate despair with Elin Kelsey

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Canadians' new right to a healthy environment

41

Jagmeet Singh on generational unfairness harming younger Canadians

42

Talking constructively about climate change

43

Medical Budgets and Boomers

44

Gen Squeeze on Parliament Hill

45

The child care staffing crisis w/ Emma Arkell

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Reframing the health care debate

47

Hope for change w/ Kareem Kudus

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Andrew Tate and our broken intergenerational system

49

Love Letter: Are we being too nice?

50

Sacrificing the Greenbelt to build homes

51

Our work advising governments

52

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?

60

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

65

"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

69

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

70

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

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Inbox Insights: the angry folder

72

The Sofa Session: Democracy needs to work for all generations

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Inflation and the Affordability Plan through an intergenerational lens

74

Making sense of voter apathy

75

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

76

Bonus: Breaking down budget 2022

77

Busting the myth of the lazy millennial

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Bonus: How can Canada stop skyrocketing home prices?

79

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