National basic income groups make joint statement
January 7, 2022
Bonne Année! Happy New Year! All of us at Basic Income Canada Network (BICN), Basic Income CanadaYouth Network (BICYN), and Coalition Canada, basic income –
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Canada’s National Observer Communities across Canada are drawing the connections between climate change and income security in hopes of laying the groundwork for resilience and climate action
2021: The year Basic Income went mainstream
January 3, 2022
UBI Works 2021 was a breakthrough year for basic income. Among the achievements in our movement this past year: Canada’s first 2 bills for basic income ever
“Basic Income would allow us to gain a social base that is essential to defeat fascism”.
December 31, 2021
Catarsi Magazine We begin, as always, with a brief explanation of what Basic Income is and its defence from a republican perspective: Basic Income is
Opposition calls for more financial support for Islanders, including targeted basic income
December 26, 2021
CBC News P.E.I.’s Official Opposition is calling on the government to provide more financial supports to Islanders and businesses struggling throughout the holidays because of increasingly
Londoners given free money in trial for Universal Basic Income
December 26, 2021
Metro A London mum receiving free money from a Universal Basic Income (UBI) trial wants the scheme to be rolled out across the capital. Lucy Idris, 31,
December 26, 2021
Globe and Mail A private member’s bill advancing a guaranteed basic income for Canadians has no hope of passage, but it contains a good idea
Opinion: bold climate action needs a basic income
December 15, 2021
Cecilia Stuart, The Green Resilience Project A new opinion piece from Green Resilience Project steering committee members Mitchell Beer and Sheila Regehr makes the case for including