August 25, 2008
A blog post on the Progressive Economics Forum, "Falling Poverty Among the Elderly - A Canadian Success Story," describes how the poverty rate for seniors has fallen from 11.3% in 1989 to just 5.4%...
Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, All of Canada
July 11, 2007
BC Seniors Office is a BC Government website, in the Ministry of Healthservices, gives information on what services are available for seniors.
Seniors and Elders, British Columbia, Government information
March 22, 2007
P.E.I Senior Citizens' Federation is disappointed that the federal budget will do nothing for the 52 per cent of Island seniors who live below the poverty line. Read more in the CBC article, "P.E.I....
Government Policy, Seniors and Elders, Prince Edward Island
March 9, 2007
According to a CBC investigation on seniors and housing and GVRD homelessness statistics the number of homeless seniors has gone up dramatically. The GVRD statistics show the number of elderly...
Homelessness, Seniors and Elders, British Columbia
March 6, 2007
According to a Statistics Canada report, A Portrait of Seniors in Canada (in HTML and in PDF) although the financial situation of seniors has improved over the past quarter century, senior women who...
Seniors and Elders, British Columbia, Québec, All of Canada
August 15, 2006
Seniors Canada Online is the Canadian Government's online resource for seniors.
Seniors and Elders, Government information, All of Canada
January 8, 2006
The Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives (Link removed - No longer exists) writes a response to a mistake which appeared in the Toronto Star. The newspaper wrote that an adult refugee recieved...
Immigrants and Refugees, Seniors and Elders, All of Canada
June 29, 2005
WE*ACT has put together a position paper on senior women living in poverty called: Pensions in Canada: Policy Reform because Woman Matter (in PDF). The Vancouver City Council recently voted to add...
Seniors and Elders, Women, All of Canada
June 29, 2005
A senior in Yellowknife has been evicted from her publicly-subsidized home, which she had lived in for 14 years. She is expected to give up her two bedroom home and move into a seniors home. This...
Housing, Seniors and Elders, Northwest Territories
May 10, 2005
The Canada Pension Plan webpage is well laid out and provides information about Old Age Security and the Canada Pension Plan.
Le site web de la Régime de pensions du Canada a une disposition utile et...
Seniors and Elders, Government information, All of Canada
March 10, 2005
In 1999, Senior Summit, a British Columbia wide gathering of seniors in Vancouver lead to a group of women to form a working group to learn about inequalities in pension for women. From that working...
Seniors and Elders, Women, All of Canada
January 11, 2004
In December 2000, the Seniors Housing Information Program (SHIP) received funding to research the emergency shelter and services needs of seniors and older adults living outside of the Downtown...
Homelessness, Seniors and Elders, British Columbia
August 14, 2002
Elders in Inuvik have organized and are demanding town council to move ahead with plans to develop a popular tourist campground into a multi-unit housing complex. Read a CBC story about the elder's...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Housing, Seniors and Elders, Northwest Territories
May 17, 2002
Seniors' Network of BC says "just say no" to government plans to move long-term care residents. The website also has information about the impact of government cuts to seniors, links to other...
Seniors and Elders, British Columbia
January 18, 2002
A group of seniors in Quebec are a big part of Project Genesis’s Social Action Group, and have spent much of the past few years fighting federal and provincial cutbacks to Medicare funding, medical...
Organizing, Seniors and Elders, Québec
July 31, 1999
"A description and critique of Canada's complex retirement income system. The report covers federal and provincial income security programs for seniors, the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans,...
Seniors and Elders, All of Canada
