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  Defined pensions largely a thing of the past
  By Robert Brown
  The world of retirement income security is rapidly changing – and leaving most Canadians without a security net. In 1986, a sizeable 39% of the labour force had an employer-sponsored pension and most of these (92%) were Defined Benefit Plans where workers knew clearly the income they would have post-retirement.
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  Baby boomers looking to right public health care, not drain it
  By Cy Frank
  Should we baby boomers be feeling guilty now that everyone else seems to have finally clued into the developed world’s worst-kept secret: there are lots of us, we didn’t have enough children of our own to replenish the taxpayer base, and we didn’t contribute enough in taxes to cover our future health needs as increasingly frail citizens.
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  How much is enough retirement income?
  By Michael Wolfson
  How much income would most of us consider enough during our retirement? Canadian finance ministers will implicitly give us their answer when they define a “modest Canada Pension Plan (CPP) expansion” at their next meeting in June 2013.
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  Why we need an improved and sustainable CPP
  By Michael Wolfson
  Canada’s finance ministers have just concluded another meeting postponing — yet again — improvements to the Canada (and Quebec) Pension Plan.

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