Canadian Seniors Reconsider Retirement Amid Affordability Crisis, Waning Pandemic Concerns

Many Canadians are reconsidering what retirement looks like for them as the pandemic recedes and Canada’s affordability crisis continues. More seniors are choosing to delay theirs or head back to work to make ends meet, and a 90-year-old Winnipeg woman is getting creative as she faces difficult choices to stay out of the red.

For Peggy Prendergast, painting is a way to both relax and secure income.

Teaching watercolour at least three times a week never seemed like a job to her, but more and more, she’s depending on it to keep up with the cost of living.

“Now, I’m really struggling because my pension is still, I still get the same dollars,” she said.

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