CTV News The federal government's bill to implement a new Canada Disability Benefit passed Parliament on Tuesday. Bill C-22, from Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough,…
Saltwire.com Former longtime Malpeque MP Wayne Easter is keeping up the fight for Islanders. Easter, who served as a Liberal MP for nearly three decades, spoke about the possibility of…
CBS News Just a few years ago, the idea of giving people money with no strings attached was seen as ludicrous in mainstream policy circles. This week, a documentary on…
Spec.com Ever since Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservative government cancelled the basic income pilot project soon after assuming office in 2018, Hamilton officials and advocates had been…
CCPA The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 triggered the introduction of public health measures that would close large sectors of the economy and send millions of workers…
SBS News Models for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) show that giving money to everyone in Australia would never come cheap. But experts say the concept, which has been around…
The Spectator Hamilton city council did a smart thing this week by unanimously supporting a motion from Coun. Ted McMeekin calling on this city and others of a like mind…
Karl Widerquist All or most of the arguments in part 8 apply to women as much as they do to men. Women make up about half of the workforce, and…
The Guardian A universal basic income of £1,600 a month is to be trialled in England for the first time in a pilot programme. Thirty people will be paid a lump sum…
The Walrus Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has ideas about the future. One of them is about how you’ll make money. In short, you won’t necessarily have to, even if your…