Basic Income was the theme of the Summer 2016 edition of the quarterly Winnipeg-based magazine Canadian Dimension (CD).
Andrea Levy describes the contents of this special edition in an introductory article:
In this CD Focus we have invited several Left scholars and activists to share their perspectives on Basic Income. To lay bare some of the bones of contention, we present a comradely debate between Michal Rozworski, who is emerging as one of English Canada’s leading Left economists, and scholar Nick Srnicek, co-author of a couple of recent books associated with the “left-accelerationist” current that have sparked intense interest in the U.K. and beyond. Kathi Weeks, author of the acclaimed book The Problem with Work (Duke University Press, 2011), offers a socialist-feminist perspective on Basic Income in an interview conducted for CD by Katie Cruz. Journalist and writer Richard Swift (also a CD Editor) has penned a short essay intended to inspire a return to the Left’s too-often neglected critique of the nature of waged work. Community animator Josh Brandon reports on the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress held this past spring in Winnipeg. Cult Montreal columnist and CD Editor Peter Wheeland contributes a report on the Basic Income policies under consideration by the neo-Liberal “austerian” governments of Kathleen Wynne and Philippe Couillard. Finally, I introduce a French degrowth model of basic income, the Unconditional Autonomy Allowance, conceived as a tool to support a transition beyond the market economy.
Founded in 1963, Canadian Dimension is Canada’s longest-running periodical specializing in left-wing political discussion. It describes itself as “a magazine for people who want to change the world”.
Levy’s introduction to the edition is available on-line, as is the interview with Kathi Weeks:
Andrea Levy, “Introduction: Basic Questions“, Canadian Dimension; August 11, 2016.
Katie Cruz, “A feminist case for Basic Income: An interview with Kathi Weeks“, Canadian Dimension; August 11, 2016.
For the full contents of Canadian Dimension‘s basic income edition, see:
Basic Income; Canadian Dimension Volume 50, Issue 3: Summer 2016.
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