Paul Kershaw

Their service is baked into housing markets, government budgets and the deteriorating health of our planet

Though there are more doctors per capita today compared to when boomers were young, the system remains overwhelmed by rising medical costs

Current pledges to reduce housing unaffordability may not help enough for years

To protect democracy, voters should be given more time to consider all that information

They pay higher rents, take on larger mortgages, delay or abandon homeownership and start families later because our political choices leave them no alternative

Let’s vote for politicians who talk about responsibility

Privilege comes with obligations to protect lower- and middle-income renters, for whom the burden of housing, grocery and energy inflation is heaviest

Since the CPP was designed to replace retirement income regardless of one’s affluence, OAS no longer needs to deliver taxpayer subsidies for rich and poor retirees alike

Canada’s plans for population aging run afoul of the ‘intergenerational golden rule’ and needs to be remedied

The lobby for retirees, the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP), is displaying the intergenerational solidarity missing from Parliament

Canada needs to set a clear mandate to promote generational fairness protecting yonger generations from intergenerational problems we are seeing

It’s a sign of incremental success as politicians across federal, provincial and municipal jurisdictions wisely use an increasing number of policy tools to rein in home values

We should compensate younger people for sacrificing their standard of living in return for asking them to endure higher housing costs to protect older people who bank on current home prices for their retirement

There are only three realistic paths to eliminate the federal deficit: gut benefits for boomers’ retirement, raise taxes to pay for boomers’ benefits, or ramp up immigration well beyond the levels we’ve witnessed

Paying taxes on a half-million-dollar capital gain from a cottage or an investment property is a good problem to have

Affordable child care is a life-changer for parents. Governments need to scale it up fast

Spare bedrooms may not yet be the sign of a housing aristocrat, but it is an increasing marker of the housing ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’

Governments should revisit social-spending priorities and revenue plans to pay for the investments that citizens want

Much of the responsibility for today’s debt rests with boomers, the largest generation driving economic and political trends for the past 45 years

We rarely talk about whether today’s aging population paid enough taxes to cover their use of the medical care system. Spoiler alert, they didn’t