[Craig Axford]
The Basic Income Earth Network’s 15th annual conference in Montreal raises the profile of the basic income guarantee in Canada. A CTV News report on discussions at the BIEN conference points out that press coverage for BIG has been steadily increasing across North America recently. In addition, there has been recent positive movement on the issue within two of Canada’s opposition parties.
Benjamin Shingler, “Are Canadians worth $20k a year, guaranteed?”, CTV News, June 29, 2014