Monica Townson
It’s simply untrue Old Age Security is no longer sustainable Old Age Security is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. It is…
Download 169.46 KB4 pages Old Age Security (OAS) is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. Canadians build on that foundation, saving for…
How the finance ministers bungled pension reform Download 788.41 KB 34 pages This study provides an analysis of the government’s proposed Pooled Registered Pension Plan…
Expanding the Canada Pension Plan Download 146.62 KB8 pages
Pension Reform and Old Age Security Download 146.13 KB7 pages
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Only 9% of all Canadians were considered poor in 2007. It was the lowest rate of low income in 30 years. But that was before…
Download 662.41 KB54 pages This report by researcher Monica Townson draws attention to Canada’s shockingly high rates of women’s poverty and offers a strong critique…
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The New Face of Retirement Download 119.91 KB 254 pages
Planned redesign of social programs could spur privatization Policy-makers are quietly and stealthily planning to redesign Canada’s social programs—or, in the jargon so popular in…
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