Andrea Long

About Andrea Long

Andrea Long is Generation Squeeze’s senior director of research and knowledge mobilization and has over 20 years of experience in policy analysis, research and knowledge mobilization on health and social issues, including housing and homelessness, poverty, social determinants of health, and health in all policies. She has worked in both the non-profit sector and for government departments and agencies, which has given her a broad understanding of the policy process and ways to motivate change. Over the last decade, Long has been a key champion for the development of “health in all policies” approaches in Canada, in collaboration with key partners like the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy and Generation Squeeze. She lives on the unceded traditional territory of the Katzie People in Pitt Meadows, B.C.

6 Articles

Election ignores greatest threat to Alberta’s kids and grandkids

A new study from Generation Squeeze finds environmental considerations are more or less absent on the campaign trail for the May 29 provincial election.

Opinion, Politics | May 26th 2023

Alberta needs a government that plays fair with people of all generations

There's not much hope for Alberta to fix its broken generational system this election, write Paul Kershaw and Andrea Long of Generation Squeeze, but the next government could start by naming a minister responsible for intergenerational fairness.

Opinion, Politics | May 25th 2023

NDP and UCP battle to be strong on medical care — not health

Some Albertans may consider higher provincial spending on medical care as a point of pride. Especially now when so many Canadians are concerned about gaps in our medical system. But the data show this spending isn’t worth bragging about because it does not buy better outcomes.

Analysis, Politics | May 24th 2023

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Raising young kids in Alberta? Parties don’t offer much in this election

A new study from Generation Squeeze finds that both the UCP and the Alberta NDP commit to deliver just eight per cent of the concrete policy actions needed to support young families at the critical moment in their lives when they are planning for and having children.

Analysis, Politics | May 19th 2023

Affordability is top of mind in Alberta election — but UCP and NDP are weak on housing

The average price of a home in Alberta is approximately $447,000. It requires 10 years of full-time work for a typical young person to save enough for a 20 per cent down payment.

Analysis, Politics | May 16th 2023

Squeezed out of helping voters decide by Ontario’s new political ad rules

The experience of national non-profit organization Generation Squeeze in the Ontario election underscores why anemic turnout should reinvigorate debate about a bill pushed through Ontario’s legislature in June 2021 limiting what’s called “third-party advertising.”

Opinion | June 8th 2022