The time for a basic income program in the N.W.T. is now, advocates say. Alternatives North, a social justice coalition, released a report Wednesday with six recommendations for a basic income ...

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Supporters gathered in Halifax on Saturday to raise awareness for what they say is a need for Nova Scotia and Canada to implement a basic income program. “A basic income is enough money to provide ...

Advocates of a national basic income plan are calling on the provincial and federal governments to adopt a Canadian basic income guarantee program and say the “evidence speaks” for itself. Basic ...

This article was published 30/10/2020 (1785 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. A community health sciences professor at the University of Manitoba is one of three scholars ...

The Green Party of Manitoba laid out specifics on Sunday of one of the party’s main platforms: the proposal for Basic Income and more progressive tax system. “Dealing with poverty and inequality is ...

Canada is taking its baby steps toward a basic income program meant to broadly address poverty. The Senate’s national finance committee began looking into Sen. Kim Pate’s proposal for a national ...

Diane Bellemare is a Quebec Senator and an economist. There is much to say about Bill S-233 tabled in the Senate. The bill – which proposes to oblige the federal Minister of Finance to develop a ...

A leading Canadian expert on government-funded basic income says the oft-debated idea could have averted much of the economic effects of Covid-19. Evelyn Forget says a basic-income program would have ...