The Alberta government has released a consultant’s report that includes a $334 billion estimate of the asset transfer from the CPP fund to a new fund to be established for a standalone Alberta pension plan.
There are three distinct issues with this number. First, the provisions in the CPP Act concerning the asset transfer are not particularly clear. Second, the number is calculated using data by province of residence whereas CPP operates on the province of employment. Last but not least, the transfer represents 53% of the CPP fund and that seems too big when Alberta represents only 16% of CPP contributions.
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There is reason to be concerned that having unstable, uncertain or low income in later life could be detrimental, says Dr. Madison Brydges, a health policy researcher at the National Institute on Ageing and lead author of its Healthy Outcomes report.
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NIA Associate Fellow Doug Chandler shares insights on a proposal to withdraw Alberta from the Canada Pension Plan
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A Q&A with Dr. Samantha Green, President-Elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, about the risks our warming world poses to older adults
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Several of the measures outlined in the federal and provincial documents for 2023 reflected recommendations from the NIA and its National Seniors Strategy.
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Forming intergenerational groupings of co-workers at different career stages can foster stronger knowledge translation and break down ageism in the workplace.
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The Alberta government is updating its private-sector pension legislation and policy. In response to its call for feedback, the National Institute on Ageing shared recommendations based on the National Seniors Strategy and recent research on dynamic pension pools.
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Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson is the new Honorary Chair of the National Institute on Ageing’s Advisory Board. We spoke to her about why this new role is important to her.
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With Quebec heading to the polls on Oct. 3, the NIA’s Dr. Samir Sinha shares his top takeaways from the provincial parties’ election promises
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Last week, the National Institute on Ageing announced that we had made the difficult decision to pause our innovative NIA Long-Term Care COVID-19 Tracker Project, even though Canada and its long-term care (LTC) and retirement homes are now in their seventh wave of the pandemic.
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Old Age Security payments have increased by 10 per cent for Canadians aged 75 and older. Retiring Canadians can maximize this boost by delaying uptake of their OAS benefits.
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A Q&A with Joanne Dallaire, Elder and Senior Advisor, Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Toronto Metropolitan University
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A Q&A with NIA Diversity and Ageing Research Fellow Ashley Flanagan
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All four major Ontario political parties are making big promises to better support older adults and shore up the systems that care for them as they age. How do they stack up?
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The current system of long-term care in Ontario isn’t working. In fact, it’s broken. The need to reimagine how long-term care is delivered couldn't be clearer. It will be necessary to fundamentally reform the values, organization, and physical structures that underlie Ontario’s LTC homes. It will take a commitment by our government to always put LTC residents and the staff who care for them before profits. It will take a necessary culture change.
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October 1 is the International Day of Older Persons ( #UNIDOP2021). This year, the occasion has a deep significance as we reflect upon the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for older adults and the actions we must take to reform our systems of care. The urgent message of the pandemic is much larger, however. This crisis laid bare the systemic gaps and failures that have existed for decades in Canada’s political, social and economic approach to ageing. The message for #UNIDOP2021 in Canada is this—we need a plan.
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At the National Institute on Ageing, we have long advocated for greater federal leadership and provincial cooperation to address the challenges and to harness the opportunities of Canada’s ageing population. The need for a coordinated, comprehensive, national strategy has become acute over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought to public attention the inadequacies, gaps and failures of our systems of care for older adults—with tragic results. With an election only weeks away, on September 20, 2021, Canadians now have an opportunity to chart a new course for ageing in Canada.
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Rather than earmarking limited public dollars for renovating, building and furnishing LTC homes, a portion of these funds can be better employed by supporting older Canadians and Icelanders alike to remain in their own homes, in their own beds, where they want to be. Actualizing a robust homecare system would require greater flexibility in our public healthcare services, ensuring the provision of high quality care within the home. This includes supports like personal care workers, physiotherapists, doctors and nurses.
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