CARP’s Annual Gathering of the Clan: Annual General Meeting Recap
Ross Mayot on what you need to know about CARP's 25ths Annual General Meeting. Read more
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CARP Looks Back on Another Successful Year with Second Annual Advocacy Report
At this year’s Annual General Meeting Susan Eng, CARP VP of Advocacy presented the chapters with a copy of CARP’s Second Annual Advocacy Report.
The theme of this year’s report was traction. In engineering design, traction is what keeps an object from slipping when propelled forward. It also happens to be the key to moving ahead on an advocacy agenda, without it, a lot of slogging gets us nowhere.
With this theme in mind, this year’s report tells you how we gained traction and momentum in the media, in the corridors of power and how your participation has helped us every step of the way. Read more
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AGM Poll Report
Have you been curious about how CARP Action Online polls are conducted? You will find answers in our poll report.Read more
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Top 25 Canadians Award Winners Named
Nominations poured in over the summer and were reviewed by the selections committee. They were announced at CARP’s 25th General Annual Meeting. Winners will be contacted by mail to receive their awards. Here is our list of winners:Read more
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CARP Action Online Elder Abuse Compendium
We have just released a compendium of the elder abuse material/surveys/survey analysis featured in CARP Action Online.Read more
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CARP Reports on the H1N1 Emergency Parliamentary Debate
Sparks flew Monday night (November 2nd 2009) as the House of Commons engaged in a special emergency debate on the handling of the H1N1 vaccine. Read more
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Point: Why are people over 65 with underlying health conditions not being given priority for the H1N1 vaccine?
Ministries of Health across the country have identified six priority groups who should be receiving the early doses of the H1N1 vaccine and they don't include people over the age of 65 with underlying medical conditions. Read more
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Counterpoint: Why aren't people over 65 with underlying health conditions being given priority for the H1N1 vaccine?
A concerned CARP member challenges the assumption that people over 65 with health conditions should be in a low-priority group to receive the vaccine. Read more
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Dr Mailis-Gagnon Answers your questions on Neuropathic Pain
Since I started writing regularly for the CARP newsletter, readers have asked a number of questions. I am responding to a few...Read more
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CARP Pensions Watch Roundup: October 2009 Update
In the wake of the Nortel Pensioners’ protest on Parliament Hill this month, public attention turned to Canada’s unresolved Pension Crisis. Here is a roundup of what happened in October. Read more
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A Place of Rescue: Grannies House
by Ted Price
Life under the tyrannical rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge was daily if not hourly survival. Life was cheap and families were torn apart through death or permanent separation. Today a Canadian Grandmother operates a ‘Village ‘ called ‘Place of Rescue’ near the capital city of Phnom Penh. Read more
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Susan Eng discusses the new rules for Federal Pension Plans on BNN
Susan appeared on the Business News Network’s Market Morning October 28th to discuss the new rules for Federal Pension Plans and the upsurge for Pension Reform. Read more
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Reforms tweak DB pensions but may push more employers to DC plans; do little to help those with no plans at all
by Jonathan Chevereau
While Ottawa's five-pronged proposed reform of the pension system is welcome as far as it goes, the focus is mostly on enhancing benefit security for the fortunate few who are already in employer-sponsored Defined Benefit pension plans.Read more
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CARP calls for new national pension plan
by Ian MacLeod
Canada's largest seniors' advocacy group has escalated its pension reform campaign with the release of a paper calling for a new, national pension plan to replace the Canada Pension Plan. Read more
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CARP Welcomes changes to better protect pensions - it is only a First Step in the Right Direction
CARP welcomes the federal pension reform proposals as a long overdue but important first step in better protecting the retirement security of Canadians who have federally regulated pension plans. But this does not help those pensioners whose plans are already at risk and leaves out in the cold the estimated 11 million Canadians who do not have any workplace pensions at all. Read more
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Two-tier Canada Pension?
CARP couldn’t ask for a more receptive national audience. Canadians are concerned as never before about retirement because of the recession’s double hit to their plans. Read more
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Let's talk diversity
by Roger Belgrave
Beneath the furious debate about pension entitlement in Canada, there was an unavoidable undercurrent of anti-immigrant sentiment voiced in some corners. Read more
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Potential cuts to drug benefit program worry seniors
by JENNY YUEN
Seniors are worried they might have to choose between paying the rent or buying generic drugs in light of potential cuts to the Ontario Drug Benefit Program. Read more
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Province mulling drug plan changes
by Jonathan Jenkis and Antonella Artuso
Major changes to the Ontario drug benefit system -- based in part on a secret, $750,000 sole-sourced consultant contract -- that the government hopes will increase taxpayers' "value for money" are coming soon. Read more
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Mayor urges flexibility in seniors park spat
by Emily Mathieu
Last night Susan Eng, vice-president for advocacy with CARP, wrote to Mayor David Miller, asking the city to "take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that all Torontonians, but especially older residents, are welcome to walk in parks without a licence." Read more
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