Basic Income Canada Network is a unique national organization dedicated to ensuring everyone can meet basic needs and live with dignity.

It’s time for a basic income

A better, fairer Canada that works for everyone. A future where people can meet their basic needs and live with dignity.

It’s what we all want. And I truly believe it’s within our reach, with your help. We’ve seen how quickly people can turn their life around for the better when a basic income is introduced.

ON Elections Advocacy for Basic Income

BICN along with other collaborators are unitedly forwarding the Basic Income Agenda as we move towards the Ontario Election on June 2nd.

Join us in lending your support. Here are some of the actions that you can take in your ridings:

On Now! The BIG Conference 2022

It’s Time to Get BIG: The Stats, the Stories, The Steps

The only annual basic income guarantee conference in North America is getting a new name: The BIG Conference.

There is great Canadian content throughout, with special sessions on virtual day on June 25. Registration lets you attend any session you want while it’s happening (June 23-25) and/or watch the recorded version later – so it’s a fabulous deal.

Take this incredible opportunity to come together to focus on the issues that matter enormously to everyone and that can only strengthen the basic income movement in Canada!

See the french video here. Join us to make Basic Income a call that cannot be ignored this election.

YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS!

By adding your name, you help make our message stronger. Each signature helps to build momentum and places basic income on the radar of politicians, the media and fellow Canadians.

What Is Basic Income?

A basic income guarantee could completely change the way you make decisions and live your life.

HOW CAN I HELP?

Basic income movements are happening on local, provincial/territorial, national and international levels.

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE?

We’ve developed resources to support informed action by all Canadians.

Groundbreaking report shows how Canada could fund a basic income

As the need for basic income grows, we are often asked how Canada could best design and pay for it. To answer that, we asked a team to model some fair, effective and feasible options. Our report, Basic Income: Some Policy Options for Canada does just that.

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what we stand for

We want a basic income implemented in Canada, one that is grounded in principles of universality, adequacy, non-conditionality, autonomy, dignity, and economic and gender equality, and that works in synergy with public services. We stand with people in Canada calling on their governments to make basic income a reality.

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Why anti-poverty researchers bristle at holiday appeals for food bank donations

December 6, 2022

CBC Campaigns for food bank donations are a staple of the holiday season, but some Canadian food insecurity researchers say the appeals can be tough

Guaranteed Income Initiatives Are Moving From Pilots To Policies

December 6, 2022

Next City In February 2019, Michael D. Tubbs, mayor of Stockton, California, launched a radical experiment. He started one of the nation’s first guaranteed income pilots,

NDP Statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

November 26, 2022

NDP Critic for the Status of Women Leah Gazan issued the following statement: “Every six days, a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate

Council green lights UBI program

November 26, 2022

Alameda Sun At its Nov. 15 meeting, the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute two contracts to administer the Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI)

Rishi Sunak urged to examine universal basic income to protect Brits from future crises

November 21, 2022

The Mirror Rishi Sunak is being urged to examine the radical idea of a universal basic income to protect Brits the rocketing cost-of-living and future crises.

Can basic income solve America’s baby bust?

November 21, 2022

News Nation Andrew Yang loves it. Elon Musk does, too. So do Alaskans. Now babies may become its biggest fans. It is the universal basic income: the concept of giving