This new video by “Tap the Maple” highlights the perils of being a senior citizen in Canada today. Everything has become more expensive, while seniors’ income remains fixed.
Despair and despondancy are setting in for some; homelessness is looming for many. The housing crisis is not being given attention by main stream media. They just parrot the current government’s propaganda: Team Canada is excelling!
Looking across Canada, the stories are heartwrenching; the effects of inflation and lack of proper support is endemic.
“Notice something? Different provinces, different cities, different people, different ways of life, different circumstances leading up to retirement, different lives altogether. The same conversation about the obliterated financial situation for seniors due to housing, due to food costs, due to having to return to work, due to fixed incomes, due to retirement, due to evictions, due to shelters, due to survival. …This country is in BIG trouble!”