Our Members' Stories

For Teresa, ensuring that her team members could rely on a secure retirement meant the organization would also be better equipped to deliver on its mission.

In her last few years of work, Vicki worked with a lot of young people, who she regularly advised would be "out of their minds" not to join their workplace pension plan.

After nearly 30 years in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) and 21 years of service in her pension, Joanne Allaire is less than two years away from retirement.

After working part time at her employer for over 30 years, in 2010 Janice Ariza became a full-time employee and joined the pension plan.

After about 45 years working in community-based social services, 66-year-old Maxine Lean recently retired.

Brandon Gill New works on the investment team at OPTrust, one of Canada's largest defined benefit pension plans.

Liz Sutherland is the Director of Policy at the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN), an organization that supports the 58,000 organizations and nearly one million workers in Ontario's nonprofit sector.

OPTrust welcomes new President and CEO Peter Lindley, who was appointed to the helm in September 2019. Peter shares why pensions and retirement security matter now more than ever.

We had established a few goals for the organization: pay people fairly, provide decent health benefits, and provide a pension.

When you start, sign up right away! You're going to deal with stress in your job, you don't want to deal with stress in retirement.

Fellow Pension People! My name is Jason White and I am extremely excited to join you in the People for Pension campaign as your new Community Lead.

Warren Dodds will gladly tell you he is one of the oldest employees within his department at the Ontario Clean Water Agency – and he has advice for his younger co-workers when it comes to planning for retirement.

I felt a strong pull to the public service and wanted to be part of a profession that is committed to improving the well-being of the public.

This former Conservation Officer has published his first novel – just one of many adventures he's enjoyed since collecting his defined benefit pension.

This new member of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) knows the pension plan she's paying into today will pay off decades from now.

As a young person, pensions are important to me because I want to ensure I can retire one day without having to worry about not being able to meet my own basic needs.