Basic Income Pilot

• Bill Kelly: Is Canada ready for a basic income program?

  The concept of a basic income is not some crazy, left-wing idea, as some critics have characterized it, says Bill Kelly.

  Commentary

  Sep 14, 2020
  
• Jagmeet Singh says feds should take over Ontario basic income pilot scrapped by Ford

  Singh says the premature end of the pilot will make it impossible to amass enough data to determine how effective a basic income program could be in lifting Canadians out of poverty.

  Canada

  Oct 23, 2018
  
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• 4 Ontario mayors asking feds to take over basic income pilot

  In a joint letter, the mayors of Hamilton, Thunder Bay, Brantford and Kawartha Lakes, ask federal Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos to assume oversight of the program, which the province said it is ending earlier than planned.

  Canada

  Sep 7, 2018
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• March 2019 to mark end of Ontario’s basic income pilot

  After pulling the plug on the pilot last month, the PC government said Friday the final payments to the 4,000 low-income recipients in several cities will be in March 2019.

  Canada

  Aug 31, 2018
• Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith reflects on first 6 weeks of new Ontario government

  Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith discusses sex-ed curriculum, the basic income pilot program and cannabis legalization.

  Politics

  Aug 15, 2018
• Hundreds protest cancellation of basic income pilot program

  Ontario government cancels basic income pilot project.

  Politics

  Aug 8, 2018
• Here’s why the Ontario basic income pilot project could continue after the election

  The province says 4,000 people on low incomes in Hamilton-Brant, Thunder Bay and Lindsay are currently receiving payments through the program.

  Canada

  Apr 25, 2018
• Town of Lindsay chosen to host basic income pilot program

  The town of Lindsay has been chosen to be a location of a pilot project paying people on low incomes a basic income.

  Economy

  Oct 11, 2017
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• Kathleen Wynne to focus on fairness as Ontario Liberals prepare for 2018 election

  The next election will be the most difficult the Liberals have faced in a long time, Sorbara said.

  Canada

  Jun 5, 2017