Columnists
Field of wheat bales. Image credit: Léon McGregor/Unsplash
How pension funds seek to profit from corporate agriculture
Lois Ross | What do public pension funds have to do with Canadian agriculture? The answer to that question begins with the Prairie Wheat Pools that farmers formed back in the 1920s.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Image: Government of Alberta/Flickr
UCP's dream of grabbing the CPP won't be as easy as they claim
David J. Climenhaga | How much of the UCP's radical project to transform Alberta into a dystopic firewalled statelet was predicated on a Conservative victory in last month's federal election?
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Canada Pension Plan invests millions in private prison corporations
Brent Patterson | The Crown corporation has $5.9 million in stock in the private prisons that hold tens of thousands of detained immigrants in the United States.
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You probably don't know that you own billions of dollars in coal stocks
Nick Fillmore | The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has assets of $287 billion, billions of which are invested in pipelines, coal mining and other fossil fuel infrastructure.
Activist Toolkit
Why rally for Decent work on October 1?
| Some recent stories that should get you interested.
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Explaining how the right-wing echo chamber operates: The Strange Case of the CPP
David J. Climenhaga | Improvement of the CPP is not "a solution in search of a problem." It's a solution to a very real, very urgent problem affecting a very large number of Canadians.
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Lisa Raitt
When the Tories and the Fraser Institute team up to attack plans to improve the CPP, you know it needs fixing!
David J. Climenhaga | Seniors living in poverty may suit Conservatives, the Fraser Institute and the media. It shouldn't suit Canadians.
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Zombie ideas on pension reform rise again
Hugh Mackenzie | It is time for governments to call a halt to the self-interested lobbying of the financial services industry and move on to the task of repairing our badly broken retirement income system.
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Manitoba's pension record sets the bar for 2016 provincial election
Paul Moist | Pensions and the retirement security concerns of Canadians have been in the news in a big way in recent years. Going into the April election, Manitoba brings a strong record of supporting workers.
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Which is better: RRSPs or public pensions?
Hugh Mackenzie | As Canadians are exhorted to pour money into their RRSP investments before the February tax deadline, let's take the opportunity to reflect on the overwhelming advantages of our public pension system.
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Ontario goes it alone on public pensions
Hugh Mackenzie | The big news out of the latest announcement from the Ontario government about the Ontario Registered Pension Plan is that there is no news.
Columnists
Under the Liberal government, will there be a new year for the old?
Retiree Matters, Pat Kerwin | The popular image for the changeover in the calendar combines an old man with an hourglass giving way to a bouncing baby. As the calendar changes in 2016, how will the lot of seniors change?