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National News

National Town Hall on Basic Income

View this town hall co-hosted by Coalition Canada: basic income – revenu de base and the Green Party of Canada, now up on Youtube. Over 550 people tuned into this town hall held on September 17, 2020.

Facilitated by Green MP Paul Manly, this town hall featured guest speakers Senator Kim Pate, Dr. Evelyn Forget (on the economics of Basic Income), Monika Ciolek (on her experience participating in Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot), Dr. Robert Case (on basic Income and social and environmental disruption) and Dr. Tracy Smith-Carrier (Basic Income and gender equity and the deserving and undeserving poor).

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Alberta Artists For Basic Income News Ontario

OBIN & BIC’s basic income for the arts webinar

Published on Basic Income Calgary website

An online talk organized by Basic Income Calgary and OBIN with the help of Enough for all.

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Artists For Basic Income News

75,000 Canadian artists unite

It’s time for a basic income

Today, artists, writers, technicians and performers are calling on Prime Minister Trudeau to create a permanent basic income guarantee.


A Public Letter from the Arts Community
for a Basic Income Guarantee

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Artists For Basic Income News

Video advocating by Massive Attack

For the song taken from Massive Attack‘s Eutopia EP, this video features Professor Guy Standing in a striking advocacy for universal basic income, produced by Robert Del Naja and Euan Dickinson on the 22nd April 2020.

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News Prince Edward Island

PEI government Special Legislative Committee on Poverty

Formed in July 2019, this all-party committee of the PEI Legislative Assembly was asked to “report back to the Legislative Assembly within twelve months with fully costed recommendations regarding the creation of a Basic Income Guarantee pilot for Prince Edward Island.”

Read the Committee’s Interim Report submitted July 8, 2020, which recommended that the provincial government adopt a market-basket measure as its official measure of poverty when making changes to legislation, regulations and policy.

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Artists For Basic Income News

Clayton Windatt’s video

Hi All,

I have been working with a lot of artists and arts professionals from across the country all trying to formalize a pathway forward for a Basic Income Guarantee in Canada. I feel strongly that this program can benefit artists very much, as a result I have committed time and effort in supporting this initiative.

Published initially on Clayton Windatt’s blog:

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British Columbia News

Livable Income Vancouver Podcast

Livable Income Vancouvrer recently released a podcast on guaranteed livable income.

You can now listen to the episodes on ITunes or Spotify.

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British Columbia News

Principles of a Guaranteed Livable Income

A guaranteed livable income would prevent people from having their lives shortened and made miserable from poverty and poverty-related ill health.

– C.A. L’Hirondelle, Livable4All

A women-led group of volunteers in Vancouver, BC bringing the voices of the feminist, racial equality, and anti-poverty movements to the campaign for Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI), an income guaranteed to all set at a rate that meets the cost of living.

They want a non-taxable Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI) to replace our current exploitative and paternalistic welfare system, and reduce inequality in the labour market, without leaving anyone worse off.

They have developed a set of principles for a Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI).

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News Prince Edward Island

Voluntary Resource Council and Cooper Institute

2019-2020

Supported by a federal New Horizons for Seniors project, a group of seniors participated in a series of workshops designed to explore and develop an understanding of BIG. At the end of the project, they organized a very well-attended community event in Charlottetown.

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British Columbia News

Townhall in Vancouver

Townhall on Guaranteed Livable Income

Images from the Townhall that was co-hosted with Don Davies and Jenny Kwan in 2018.

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