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Bill Tufts

Bill Tufts, Fair Pensions For All, founded in January 2009, our goal is to promote an honest and fair analysis of our pension system; to expose abuse and waste within the system; to develops and promote new ideas and concepts on pensions based on fairness for all. We maintain that it is every Canadian’s right to receive sufficient income in retirement to afford an acceptable quality of life.

Most Recent Articles by Bill Tufts:

Is the Party Really Over for Ontario Teachers?

HAMILTON: For years it has been argued that pensions for teachers are deferred salary to make up for low base pay. When defined benefit pensions were created in the Public Service that may have been a feasible argument, but today, public servants, especially teachers, are very well compensated. A new report from Fair Pensions For All shows that teachers in Ontario are among the highest paid teachers in the world. So much for deferred salary.
- Thursday, August 23, 2012

Air Canada Running Out of Fuel

HAMILTON: Airline for sale: Market value: $280 million; Annual operating loss: $249 million; pension liability: $4 billion. Any takers?
- Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Private sector pension crisis threatens all of us

Much is being said about Canada’s crushing public sector pension debt, now estimated to be more than $300 billion, but few Canadians realize the potential additional cost to taxpayers of the collapse of the remaining private sector defined - as in guaranteed - benefit (DB) plans.
- Thursday, May 17, 2012

Nova Scotia teachers Pension Ponzi melts down in 2011

It’s been a disastrous year so far for pensions across the country as plans release their annual reports. These reports based on 2011 data don’t take into account the reality that equity markets have not risen dramatically since the beginning of the year, but rather have continued to lose value.
- Saturday, May 12, 2012

Fair Pensions For All

The Federal Government recently announced budget cuts to the CBC of $27.8 million this year increasing to $115 million by 2014-15. The CBC budget for 2011 was $1.1 billion.
- Thursday, April 12, 2012

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