With your support, Federal Retirees is calling on the Alberta government to bring back an independent seniors’ advocate. Please note this campaign has updates. Visit the new campaign page to participate. Alberta is currently home to more than 665,000 seniors. That number…
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Vaccine rollout varies from province to province, but the federal government has stated it expects all Canadians to be vaccinated by September 2021. Federal Retirees has heard from members with questions and concerns about when older adults will receive…
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Canada is the only country with universal health care that does not also offer universal prescription coverage, and that fragmentation means that Canadians pay among the highest drug costs in the world. Last month Federal Retirees supported Bill C-213…
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The National Association of Federal Retirees is looking for volunteers to fill the role of advocacy program officer in Ontario. Applications will be accepted until April 1 at 11:59 Eastern Time. Apply today! Advocacy program officers are volunteer leaders at Federal…
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Micheline Lefrançois, branch advocacy contact for our Quebec branch, has been a driving force for the Federal Retirees advocacy network, Reach 338. When Federal Retirees launched Reach 338 in 2020, one of the first branches to hit the ground running…
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These three women are Federal Retirees’ secret weapons in the B.C. and Yukon Reach 338 initiative. From left to right: Leslie Gaudette, Marg Smith, Deb Nilsen. To get politicians thinking about seniors’ issues, Federal Retirees’ Reach 338 project aims…
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Canadians consistently pay among the highest prices for prescription drugs, and 20 per cent don’t even have adequate coverage to meet their needs. Most Canadians have some form of prescription drug coverage, whether through public or government programs or…
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As part of his work on the Merlo-Davidson settlement, former Supreme Court of Canada justice Michel Bastarache and his team conducted over 640 interviews with current and former female employees of the RCMP, painting a distressing picture of a toxic…
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Join Federal Retirees in supporting Bill C-213, the Canada Pharmacare Act. In roughly 24 hours, parliamentarians will be debating Bill C-213 and voting on next steps for the bill. Bill C-213, or the Canada Pharmacare Act, establishes criteria and conditions…
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Join Federal Retirees in calling for budget 2021 to improve retirement security and health care for Canadians. The federal government has launched an online consultation – open until February 19 – called Let’s Talk Budget 2021 in preparation for the…
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A recent order from Alberta’s finance minister has taken control of the pensions of hundreds of thousands of Albertans. In the ongoing saga involving the Alberta public pension funds and the UCP government, it was revealed in mid-January that…
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Hear from the Newfoundland and Labrador election candidates by viewing the video recording of our election webinar townhall, moderated by Léonard LeBlanc. On Feb. 3, the National Association of Federal Retirees hosted a live webinar townhall for the upcoming Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election. This special 1.5-hour election discussion…
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