Northern Reflections: Basic Stupidity

One of the first things Doug Ford did when he came to office was to break a campaign promise and cancel Ontario’s Basic Income Project. Laurie Monsebraaten reports: Under the pilot project, launched by the former Liberal government in April 2017, single people such as Miller have been receiving annual

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Northern Reflections: Time For A Basic Income

It’s time to implement Guaranteed Basic Income Programs. However, Gwynne Dyer writes, there  is surprising resistance to the idea. Conservatives argue that giving people free money is fraught with moral hazard. But the numbers suggest that, in the future, large numbers of people will be unemployed: The famous 2013 study

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