N.L. launching disability benefit to top up federal program and create basic income

See the CTV News story: “The province says the new benefit will raise the annual income of a single person with a disability working a full-time minimum wage job by 25 per cent, to $35,500 from $28,300. A single person with a disability receiving the maximum amount on the provincial income support program will see their income increase by nearly 50 per cent, to $22,580 a year from $15,380.

Smee noted that someone earning $22,580 a year is still living in poverty, but the increase from the previous amount is "a pretty big lift nonetheless."“

Ontario government facing class action law suit for abruptly cancelling the basic income pilot program

See reports from CBC, Thunder Bay News Watch, Peterborough Examiner, and Kawartha news sources.

Halifax MP Andy Fillmore presents a petition in support of a PEI basic income demonstration project in the House of Commons

Saltwire Op-Ed: Poverty--a predictor of health

CTV: When could Basic Income start in Canada?

Read the story here.

It Is Time to Pass Bills Calling for a National Framework for a Livable BIG

While some of the details of this story are a little off, it is correct in saying that bills like S233 and C223 "could potentially revive Canada’s economy and improve the overall well-being of its citizens."

More on basic income from The Conversation

Dear politicians: To solve our food bank crisis, curb corporate greed and implement a basic income.

An interview with Elaine Power

Implementing a basic income means overcoming myths about the ‘undeserving poor’.

An article by Tracy Smith-Carrier

Deaths of despair: How income inequality puts Canadian youth at risk.

An article by Claire Benny

Report proposing a PEI island-wide basic income demonstration project is made public

The report calls for the government of PEI to begin immediate negotiations with the federal government for the development and implementation of a basic income guarantee demonstration program. The report presents a basic income model for a fully-funded 5-7-year demonstration program in PEI, which would considerably reduce poverty for Islanders while being more cost-effective than previously presented models. Championed by public servants, politicians, and advocates from PEI and across the country, this report is the outcome of more than 2 years of collaboration and will help guide crucial conversations on poverty reduction and income assistance in PEI and across the country.

“This report establishes beyond doubt that a province-wide guaranteed basic income in PEI is feasible and realistic,” says Jane Ledwell, member of the PEI Working Group for a Livable Income, who endorse the report. Ledwell notes that “with this proposed model for basic income, low-income Islanders who constantly fall through the cracks of social welfare systems would gain an income floor and the security to live in good health and dignity.”

November 8, 2023

The Newfoundland and Labrador government announced their new poverty reduction plan which includes a basic income for adults aged 60 to 65 to be rolled out over 3 years. In the press conference that followed, premier Andrew Furey, stated his support for a national basic income. See the story in the Globe and Mail and on CTV.

CBC’s Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas

“How universal basic income could help reduce poverty” by Rose Murphy.