The Ontario Medical Association is petitioning the federal minister of finance to consider changing the Income Tax Act to help self-employed doctors to establish pension plans. “Factors including an aging population retiring earlier, diminishing personal RRSP contributions and limited social security funding have led the OMA to call for more pension options to be made […]
While the majority of media coverage on pensions is currently focused on saving existing plans, it may come as a surprise to most Canadians that the country’s doctors are quietly lobbying the government for the right to a provincially-sponsored pension plan. For Dr. Lydia Hatcher, a general practitioner in the St. John’s suburb of Mount […]
To gauge the impact of the financial crisis, all Dr. Maria Hugi has to do is look out the window of the home she purchased a few years ago in Dupont, Wash., with her fellow ER physician husband. The couple, who also are both ER doctors in Vancouver, where they have their primary home, bought […]