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

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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REFLECTIONS ON THE BASIC INCOME MOVEMENT AND THE NABIG 2021 CONGRESS

July 26, 2021

US BIG The movement for a basic income guarantee (BIG) has come a long way since the USBIG Network was founded in 1999 as the US affiliate of BIEN, and

Is Universal Basic Income the Key to Happiness in Asia?

July 23, 2021

Stanford Social Innovation Review Recently I joined a discussion organized by a group of Japanese university students about making a career out of what you

The European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic Income

July 23, 2021

Open Democracy The COVID pandemic revealed and exacerbated structural problems and inequalities that were already present at many levels of our societies and economies. One of the

Statement from Senator Pate: From Pandemic to Election, Where Do Our Leaders Stand on Poverty?

July 23, 2021

With news this week of police raids on homeless encampments in Toronto, and as rumours of a federal election swirl, let’s each ask our representatives

California passes US’s first state-backed guaranteed income plan

July 17, 2021

The Guardian California lawmakers have approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the US, which will see $35m used for monthly cash payments to

Yuen Pau Woo: The basic income study that wasn’t

July 14, 2021

Straight.com When the British Columbia government announced in 2018 that it had appointed an expert panel to “test the feasibility of a basic income in