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 as regional policy
BIEN In a new publication Cash in Hand, Marc Doussard, Jurgen De Wispelaere and Joe Chrisp make the case for basic income as a policy solution that reinvigorates left-behind places. Featuring a foreword by Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on
New Zealand’s Opportunity Party Aims for Tax Reforms and Universal Basic Income
DevDiscourse The Opportunity Party in New Zealand is proposing a groundbreaking economic policy that includes a universal basic income for almost all residents. This initiative would be financed through a new land tax, a bold move aimed at addressing the
Top global basic income experts gathering in Toronto, with senate bill top of mind
CBC A bill to develop a national framework for a guaranteed basic income in Canada will be a focal point at an international basic income gathering happening in Toronto this week. Bill S-206, which is currently being studied by a
What happened when basic income was finally tested
BIEN From Cape Town to Seoul, basic income’s third decade became a story about people trying to make an old idea survive contact with real lives. Cash entered villages, researchers debated what it showed, and BIEN became a genuinely global
How basic income became impossible to ignore
BIEN BIEN entered its fourth decade with a closed bank account. It leaves it with a global definition, a generation of experiments, and a sovereign state paying a recurring income. The distance between those moments explains what the network became.
Inside Halton Sheila Regehr imagines a world where no one has to hold down a job they hate in order to make a living. It may sound like a pipe dream, but for Regehr — chairperson of the Basic Income Canada
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