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A new film is hoping to answer the question of whether life itself should be subsidized. Directors Sean Blacknell and Wayne Walsh have produced a new documentary “The Cost of Living” which discusses the mental and physical burden placed on those with unstable incomes and whether basic income is the right remedy. The film interviews many prominent basic income scholars, such as Guy Standing and Barb Jacobson. It is focused on the issues specifically facing the United Kingdom, where there are “3.5 million people in ‘in-work poverty.’” With the arrival of COVID-19, the film-makers ar...

iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Dec 14, 2020 11:15am A grocery store in Oshawa. Steve Russell/Toronto Star Here’s today’s agriculture news. The Lead  The director of Canada’s Nutrition North program says emergency COVID-19 federal food assistance has helped boost access to food in remote northern communities – but the crisis has also revealed the true degree of food insecurity many in Nunavut face. Wayne Walsh, who oversees the Nutrition North program, told the parliamentary standing committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs on Dec. 8. that women and children...

Posted: Dec 11, 2020 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 11, 2020 A file photo from May 2018. Fresh fruit are some of the most expensive items in Nunavut. A Nutrition North representative says the cost of flour after subsidies is now comparable to southern Canadian prices, because of COVID-19 funding. (Nick Murray/CBC News) Relief funding for the COVID-19 pandemic has been effective in increasing access to food in remote northern communities — but it's also revealed the true extent of food insecurity that Nunavut households face. Because many communities are using pandemic relief funds to...