by Liam Upton | May 15, 2015 | News
A new Basic Income group has launched in Québec province, called ‘Revenu de Base Québec’.
At the moment, the movement consists of web, Facebook and Twitter pages. The web page includes numerous useful resources including a ‘Stories‘ page, with examples of how Basic Income could help real people, from a recent widow and her family to newlyweds with young children. There is also a videography and other resources.
The movement will work alongside the recently relaunched, Basic Income Canada Network.
For more information, see:
Language: French
Revenu de Base Québec, official website
by Josh Martin | May 14, 2015 | News
Benns writes about the possibility of a ‘basic income’ in Canada, where each citizen would be entitled to $20,000. However, Benns seems to conflate a Negative Income Tax, which he effectively argues for, with a basic income, since he argues that $20,000 should be the ‘cut-off point’ where a citizen should not receive the basic income anymore. Regardless, Benns discusses the desirability of implementing a basic income guarantee in Canada.
Roderick Benns, “Goodbye welfare, hello basic income”, Leaders and Legacies, 1 May 2015.
by Jenna van Draanen | May 12, 2015 | News
Prior to a provincial election on May 4, 2015, all Prince Edward Island provincial party leaders were on record as being supportive of basic income. The Liberal Premier, Wade MacLauchlan, who won the election has voiced support for BIG as a poverty reduction policy saying, “We’d be actively interested in pursuing that (basic income guarantee)…I’d call it a model program and build in a commitment to evidence-based research and action-based research.” The PEI Working Group for Livable Income has been working hard to raise awareness and promote basic income in both public and political spheres, and have achieved support from all parties on BIG.
For more information on the support in PEI for basic income see:
“Marie Burge, “All Prince Edward Island party leaders united in exploring basic income guarantee.” Leaders and Legacies. April 24, 2015
by Toru Yamamori | May 10, 2015 | News
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi called for “brave step” toward Basic Income Guarantee, at the National Poverty Reduction Summit on 7th May in Ottawa. The summit was hosted by Tamarack and Vibrant Communities Canada, from 6th to 8th May. Nenshi was elected in 2010, and then initiated a poverty reduction strategy called ‘enough for all’. He was awarded the ‘World Mayor’ prize in 2014.
More detail can be read here.
See here for the summit, and here for Naheed Nenshi.
by Liam Upton | May 9, 2015 | News
Roderick Benns, “Basic Income and ‘consensual capitalism’: an interview with Tim Ellis”, Leaders and Legacies, 21 March 2015
