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Basic-income model is already here

Basic-income model is already here
By: Wayne Simpson
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My colleague Evelyn Forget has argued forcefully that the time is right for a basic income (”Canada can afford a basic income,” March 3) and draws a parallel with our universal health-care plan developed a half-century ago.
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My colleague Evelyn Forget has argued forcefully that the time is right for a basic income ("Canada can afford a basic income," March 3) and draws a parallel with our universal health-care plan developed a half-century ago.
Medicare is a popular but distinctly different social policy, however, and there is a more recent popular initiative that provides a better model to build on when the time is right: the National Child Benefit Initiative.

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Canada can afford a basic income

Winnipeg Free Press
By: Paul Walsh
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CANADA has a class system that essentially ignores the needs of the poor. Existing government and not-for-profit institutions have classified, segmented, and distorted assistance into discrete categories.
The creation of a menu that classifies and focuses on aspects of poverty, and the specific insecurities that flow from it, skewers the single true problem: poverty. And it avoids addressing poverty at its root.
Approximately 28 per cent of Manitoba families live in poverty. They have little food and housing security. New clothing is a luxury. Government and anti-poverty programs, together with the bureaucracies that run them, obligate the poor to trade their dignity and self-respect for inadequate assistance.

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B.C. panel rejects a basic universal income

It appears to be the end of the road for a universal basic income in British Columbia. A panel appointed by the provincial government in 2018 to examine the idea of a basic income has reported . . .

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What We're Watching: Pending pandemic Parliament; 'bump' in vaccine road

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By Kady O'Malley. Published on Jan 17, 2021 4:00pm
A vial of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine (Torstar file photo)
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares for another round of pre-sitting strategy sessions with his front-bench team — which will continue through Monday and wrap up on Thursday, his office says — he may be forced to adjust the timeline for the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout now underway after Pfizer revealed it must temporarily cut production to expand its facilities in Belgium.
Maj-Gen. Dany Fortin, whose job is to coordinate the federal side of the vaccine supply chain, acknowledged last week that “for the end of January and most of February, provinces will see a ‘significant’ hit to their vaccine deliveries,” the Star reported last week.

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How a Basic Income Plan Could Save Lives in a Pandemic

Emergency benefits showed the value of ensuring all Canadians are guaranteed enough money to meet basic needs.
Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.
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A basic income introduced early in the pandemic would have reduced pressure on employees to go to work even if they were sick, says Evelyn Forget.
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A basic income program could have saved lives and reduced COVID-19 transmission when the pandemic struck last spring, says one of the country’s leading experts.
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