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Thursday, June 23, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
Flickr: hansvandenberg30's Funeral director Robert Webster muses about the secrets of the dead in a business where there's new life ... thanks to a demographic...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(AP Photo/Mauro Scrobogna, Lapresse) As he watched the results of last month's federal election roll in, pollster Frank Graves, the President of EKOS Research Associates,...
Monday, June 20, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
Photo by Flickr: qthomasbower Many gays discover the battles they thought they had won decades ago are still being waged in unlikely places -- such...
Thursday, June 16, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
Photo: Flickr Pedrosimoes7 Both Canada Post and Air Canada argue they can't afford to extend pension coverage to new workers because a decreasing number of...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
Photo: Flickr Babasteve*Promo photo: Flickr By Anant Rohankar Imagine India without the sari, without the bindi, without those sopranos in the Bollywood musicals. Women are...
Monday, June 6, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
Photo: Flickr Altemark Our project, Shift, on demographic change tracks young people in search of work. There are 200,000 fewer young people on the job...
(Photo: CP/Darryl Dyck)*Promo Photo: AP/Mohammad Abu Ghosh Canadian stand-up comedian Russell Peters has made his name on poking fun at race and racial stereotypes. Why...
Monday, May 30, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Photo: CP/Jonathan Hayward)*Promo Photo: Canadian Press/Dave Chidley In 2010, Canada welcomed 250,000 new immigrants. That's a quarter of a million people who could be...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Photo by thewhelming)Promo Photo by Flickr: Mackay Savage The United Nations has revised its global population estimates for the coming decades. And the new...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Photo by Paul ODonnell) Our workforce is aging, people are choosing to stay on the job longer and mandatory retirement laws are being challenged as...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Photo: Roberta Walker) As part of our project, Shift, we look at how nature shapes our brains and how the absence of nature can...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Photo: Canadian Press - Chris Young) Canadians aged 18 to 24 have the strength in numbers to reshape national politics with their votes ......
Thursday, April 21, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Photo by Flickr: JoshBerglund19) Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's staunch support for Israel appears to be attracting a sizeable number of Jewish voters, many of...
Thursday, April 14, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
A whopping 90-percent of the 65-plus crowd vote in federal elections while only about half of younger Canadians vote. So we devoted our entire...
Monday, April 4, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Photo by Flickr: JoshBerglund19) Predictions are that from this point forward there will be no more generations of Single Japanese ancestry born to those...
Friday, April 1, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Today, the news of a new federal party is announced. The new party will be a voice for seniors but no...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) In the early days of the federal election, The Conservatives, the Liberals and the NDP are all targeting families. But the...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Amazon.ca) Author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys explains why she thinks the rise of powerful women...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Flickr:Smabs Sputzer) Male Canadians aged 15 to 25 live in dangerous times. Accidents are the leading cause of death. Suicide and homicide run second...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(AP/Rebecca Blackwell) We convene a group of women to debate what feminism means in 2011 in terms of work. Guests include esteemed physicist and...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(AP/Andy Wong) We talk to Xinran, a Chinese writer who has documented the heart-breaking choices many Chinese women have made because of the country's...
(Associated Press) As agricultural land is increasingly swallowed up by urban development, communities are often left divided because they are challenged with finding a...
(Movie Gallery) Slackistan is a movie that presents a slice of life in Pakistan that's very different from what we normally hear about. It's...
Friday, February 11, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press) Former NHL hockey star, Theo Fleury joined us as our Friday Host this week for a special edition of The Current....
Monday, February 7, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
Rural Newfoundland is one of the oldest places in the country. For a lot of towns, an aging population would be a problem. But...
Friday, January 28, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(Submitted photo) As part of our project, Shift, we look at the demographics behind the protests that are sweeping over Tunisia, Egypt and now...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
As part of our demographics project SHIFT, The Current devoted an entire show exploring how China is grappling with the largest -- and most rapidly...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(AP Photo/Daniel Roland) For the first time, there are more un-married people in Canada than married people. We look at an ever-evolving institution and...
Monday, January 17, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) China is considering a new law that would allow elderly parents to sue their children for financial and emotional support....
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 | Categories: Shift |
Photo by Flickr User: Valeblos The percentage of young people working or looking for work is at its lowest level in more than a...
Thursday, December 30, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
We have an update on a story we first brought you in October about a 15-month-old girl named Chloe and her quest for Canadian...
More and more Canadians are choosing to stay single ... to grow old on their own and on their own terms. But the stereotypes...
Monday, December 20, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
(Photo by Flickr User: Lynn Fagerlie) A group called the Family First Foundation has produced a documentary called Demographic Winter. It predicts a future...
Friday, December 17, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
(Mark Blinch/Reuters) According to a new report, Toronto is becoming increasingly divided between rich and poor, with the city's middle class rapidly shrinking. We...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Julie Ireton: CBC Reporter2010 Michener-Deacon Fellow Canada's aging population is producing a wave of new retirees. And Canada's public service -- the largest single...
Monday, December 13, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Dr. Stanley Vollant Dr. Stanley Vollant grew up in a traditional Innu family on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. He went...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Faced with an aging population and drastic changes being imposed in other countries, Canada is in the midst of a debate over the future...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Photography by Rob Young The most recent census data shows that the number of people aged 25-29 living at home has doubled over the...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Photo by Chris 73: Wikimedia Commons The population of Japan is shrinking. Other countries have tackled that problem by embracing immigration. But Japan is...
Monday, November 8, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Photography by Nina Matthews Photography Some women are using bio-identical hormones as a way to mitigate the side-effects of menopause and some men are...
Thursday, November 4, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
The numbers tell it all: from 1956 to 2006, the median age of the Canadian population went from 27.2 years to 38.9, a gain...
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
(Mahesh Kumar A/AP) Last week, we heard a lot about the challenges and problems associated with having children later in life. But -- as...
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
(Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) Last week we also took a look at climate change from the top of the high Arctic. The cold has been...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
St. Andrew Apostle and Martyr La Tuque, Quebec Saint Andrew's church in La Tuque, Quebec has stood for a century. But now there aren't...
Monday, October 25, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
The Quebec Government is pulling out all the stops for parents these days. If you're a working couple with two children in Ottawa, you'll...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
The average age of women giving birth in Canada was 29.7 years in 2004, a slight increase from 29.6 in 2003. This continues a...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Minnie McCurdy is 103 years old. Steven Bickerstaffe is half her age - young enough to be her grandson. And they've been best friends...
Friday, October 8, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Wisdom of the EldersKenojuak Ashevak, Stonecut & stencil, 2009© Dorset Fine Arts As part of our project Shift, we have a documentary about how...
Thursday, October 7, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
Ian Goldring is a Canadian citizen living abroad. But thanks to changes to Canada's Citizenship Act, he is unable to pass on his citizenship...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
As part of our project Shift, we have a documentary on the story of Susan Bosak, her brother Douglas and her husband Brian Puppa....
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