NEWS
03/20/2025
New Op Ed on basic income
03/10/2025
Halifax Examiner Op Ed: Canada needs to step up and provide Canadians with sustainable income security
Big Press Conference Held in PEI
Chair:
Former Liberal MP Wayne Easter
Panelists:
Coalition Canada member and former PEI Green Party MLA Trish Altass
Liberal MP Sean Casey
ED of the Women’s Network of PEI, Jillian Kilfoil
Purpose:
Call on Liberal leadership candidates to support and implement the PEI BIG project
Call on leadership candidates to put BIG in the Liberal party platform
Give information about the upcoming ACT BIG conference
Media:
OpEd calls on Premier Lantz to make it happen
Liberal Leadership candidate Karina Gould publicly supports a basic income and pledges to put it in the party’s platform.
Read articles from CTV and The National & watch the CBC video.
Robin Boadway and Koertney Koebel explain why Ottawa needs to act on a proposal for a guaranteed basic income for P.E.I.
Published August 28, 2024 in the Institute on Research in Public Policy’s publication — Policy Options Politiques
Foodbanks continue to call for a Guaranteed Basic Income
Volunteers providing meals in eastern P.E.I. renew call for basic income guarantee
'A good, solid basic income policy needs to be looked at strongly in Canada'
Put Food Banks Out of Business!
Food banks were supposed to be a stop-gap measure! Dependence on charity is not OK! We demand that governments step up and provide people with the income supports they need to live with dignity! Read the CBC story and listen to the interview with Josh Smee here.
Bill tabled in the NS Legislature today.
NDP MLA Kendra Coombs tabled a bill in the NS Legislature entitled “An Act Respecting the Feasibility of Creating a Basic Income Program“.
A guaranteed paycheck. Is Basic Income a good idea?
This CBC video interviews Floyd Marinescu, Jessie Golem, Mike Perry, and others about the importance of a basic income guarantee and the impact of the Ontario pilot.
