NEWS
12/02/2025
BIG-NS’s Mandy Kay-Raining Bird and Pierre Stevens were witnesses in a discussion of Guaranteed Basic Income at the Nova Scotia Standing Committee on Community Services
12/03/2025
Halifax Examiner story about the December 2nd Standing Committee meeting.
The headline is a little misleading, but the story content is right on.
01/20/2026
The Root Cause of Food Insecurity is Insufficient Income
An interesting article by Jennifer Blck, Amanda White, and Elaine Power in The Conversation about food insecurity in Canada and what can be done about it. The first recommendation: consider a basic income guarantee to address the root cause.
12/22/2025
Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think
An excellent article by Nancy Wilson in The Rabble. Every point spot-on!
11/18/2025
PEI Minister reports Ottawa gave PEI Project a ‘hard no’.
Advocates vow to keep on working.
11/4/2025
BIG-NS Endorses Response to 2025 Federal Budget
05/09/2025
How to build a national basic income program - at half the cost
Policy Options Article by economists Wayne Simpson and Benoit Robidoux
09/12/2025
October 7th Lobby Day in Ottawa: Speaking up in support of the PEI Guaranteed Basic Income Project
An Op-Ed by Marie Burge and Susan Hartley
09/17/2025
A Smarter Way to Fight Poverty: Guaranteed Basic Income
An Op-Ed by Barb Boraks
09/23/2025
Security starts at home with a basic income guarantee
An Op-Ed by Susan Hartley
9/23/2025
Could Basic Income Work in the Yukon?
A new report says yes.
Read the interview with Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition Coordinator, Keitha Clark.
07/09/2025
Nova Scotia Municipalities back basic income
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.
