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New data reveals Canada's senior population is expected to exceed 11 million people by 2043. This rapid rise in the number of older Canadians will have wide-reaching implications on sectors such as health care and employment, with experts sounding the alarm that Canada is not prepared to handle an aging population.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

You're confusing the Boomers, who are currently tipping over the line into seniorhood if they haven't already (the last of them will turn sixty-five around 2030) with Gen-Xers like me, who had to navigate a somewhat different landscape. We didn't get the high-paying jobs or the cheap anything—that all went to our parents' generation instead. So what were we supposed to do, invent a time machine so that we could go back and unsnarl the seeds of the future economy?