Basic Income Canada Network advances human-rights based public policy that ensures everyone has enough income to meet basic needs, live with dignity, and participate in society and the economy.
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.
At BICN we are thrilled by the success of the BIG Forum held in May in Ottawa and the positive energy people told us it generated.
As Forum co-lead, we found it truly inspiring to connect with 334 people from across the country and beyond and from diverse organizations, 223 in person and 111 virtually! Missed it? Or want to take the experience forward? Please read the report…and share it. You can also go to the Forum website to learn more and access session recordings and high school contest essays.
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.
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Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think
Rabble Although few people would explicitly declare that poor people are morally deficient, our welfare systems are nonetheless designed around suspicion rather than support. Like many social assistance policies, opposition to guaranteed income is driven by a deep-seated fear of fraud —
Primate urges Carney to implement universal basic income
Anglican Journal Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has called on the federal government to implement a universal basic income (UBI) “in alignment with the living wage for all Canadians.” A living wage is the minimum
Gen X could become the first generation to depend on universal basic income, analysts say
MSN Gen Xers are the least financially prepared generation for retirement by nearly every measure, according to research from the Retirement Income Institute. This is the generation born between 1965 and 1980, currently in their mid forties to early sixties,
Narrow Economic Lens Blocks Climate Gains, Social Progress
Energy Mix Thirty years after Canada helped shape global human rights and sustainability commitments at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, the country is still repeating the same policy mistakes—now under far more urgent climate and social pressures, say
On International Human Rights Day, the WSSD2 People’s Report for Canada Network is releasing the People’s Report on WSSD 2025 for Canada, a comprehensive assessment of Canada’s record implementing commitments made since the first World Summit for Social Development (WSSD1)
National Farmers’ Union proposes guaranteed basic income for farmers
Producer.com The National Farmers Union (NFU) plans to lobby the federal government for farmers to be guaranteed an annual basic income of $50,000. This was one of the resolutions passed at the NFU’s annual general meeting in Moncton, N.B., Nov. 19-21. “The
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