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Published: June 19, 2020 Ahh Summer… How we’ve missed you. As the summer approaches the news becomes a little clearer, trickling in, slowly and with alarm bells. Communities are reopening, parks are filling up, businesses restarting, doctors appointments resuming, and vacationers planning. A new An...

Published: June 16, 2020 https://www.forthefuture.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/vote1.png Tomorrow; Wednesday June 17, 2020, we will see our Canadian Federal Parliament sit and debate about the immediate future of our country. With millions of residents coming to the expiry of their Canadian Emerge...

Published: June 15, 2020 https://www.forthefuture.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/singlemother-768x385.png http://bivoices.hamiltonpoverty.ca/category/stories/ Along the way, we have brought mostly subjects on Basic Income about the cost and how we can save money for the government while helping mill...

Published: June 15, 2020 By the first week of July and through the summer, millions of Canadians will come to the end of their 16 week eligibility for the CERB Emergency program. This program was quickly designed by the government to issue support from the Covid-19 shutdown. 4 months later, most ha...

Published: June 15, 2020 Scientists stress that just because someone has recovered from Covid-19 and produced antibodies to the coronavirus does not mean they are protected from contracting it a second time. No one’s yet proven that. With the economy in an unprecedented time, we are starting to see...

Published: June 14, 2020 A new analysis conducted by CBC News of cases in Montreal found strong correlations linking higher rates of COVID-19 infections with low-income neighbourhoods and neighbourhoods with higher percentages of Black residents. Limitations on available data may hide the full exte...

Published: June 11, 2020 It is June 11, 2020… A gloomy Thursday. Most of the Country is still Sheltering-in-place. Some have been working through the entire pandemic, some have been unemployed since March. But to those that were previously unemployed, claiming social assistance, disabled, seniors, ...

Published: June 10, 2020 CANADA Benefit – Ambitiously named for what it represents … Canada’s Ambitious National Aggregating Destiny Assistance – A TRUE Universal Basic Income Benefit backed by the future savings of multiple sectors that helps to stimulate and continue to grow the economy in one pr...

Published: June 10, 2020 We all think UBI and hear “Universal” and think that’s not possible because then the rich don’t need it, they won’t want to pay for it, and it will make people rich. However we also hear “It will make my tax bracket too high in the end costing me money” and that is also tru...

Published: June 9, 2020 It’s June 9th, the year is 2020 and the entire world is shaken. In 6 months we have gone and still going through an epidemic that has taken us by surprise. World markets were pushed to the limits both financially but also psychically. Entire nations were locked down, a healt...

Published: June 8, 2020 As of June 4, the federal government has paid out $43.5-billion in CERB support. As reported by Global News back on April 17, 2018, 2 Years later our Parliamentary Budget Officer said that a UBI would cost $43 billion per year. How can a PBO be so wrong about the cost of a U...

Published: June 7, 2020 COVID-19 has proved so infectious and has caused so much financial dislocation for millions of Americans, that for the first time in the history of the United States, it makes economic sense for a limited form of a basic guaranteed income (BGI) to be initiated. A BGI is diff...

Published: June 6, 2020 $45 billion: Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy $60 billion: Canada Emergency Response Benefit $13.7 billion: Canada Emergency Business Account $5.5 billion: GST credits $9 billion: Financial aid to students $1.7 billion: Orphan well clean up See more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/pol...

Published: June 6, 2020 Spain is the latest country talking about adopting a universal basic income, or UBI, program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many libertarians, including myself, have always been open to the idea of moving away from traditional welfare programs to cash payments. That s...

Published: June 6, 2020 Chrystia Freeland was reported to have said that the Canadian Economy may need 6-8 months of slow starting the economy safely. This means that thousands of Canadians will be left behind by expiring EI claims, CERB ending October 3, CEWS capped, and more. With Seniors only ge...

Published: June 5, 2020 The proportion of insolvent borrowers using payday loans in Ontario is on the rise, according to a new report, which revealed four in 10 insolvencies in 2018 can be traced back to the costly type of loan. 1 The average insolvent payday loan borrower now owes $5,174 in payday...

Published: May 19, 2020 By creating a Universal Basic Income in Canada, we would be changing the residential housing market over night. Not only would the prospect of being a landlord be more appealing and investing in housing would boom, but the standards in which a landlord can keep a tenant will...

Published: May 19, 2020 Canadian politicians have estimated that it would cost between $40-$80 Billion per year However they don’t make clear between the 14 federal and provincial governments we spend over $165 Billion per year. https://www.forthefuture.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ubi-2018-stats-...

Published: May 19, 2020 Recovering the funding for UBI would be the first goal of the Canadian Government. To initiate a program of this size, they would have to be able to recover a good amount of it back quickly or the government could become cash strapped as it evolves... At first we think, ohh ...

Source: Prime Ministers Office Putting Canada on the path to double housing construction over the next decade, including by investing $4 billion for the launch of a new Housing Accelerator Fund that will help create 100,000 new housing units over the next five years. $40,000 per unit, the equivalen...

Source: Prime Ministers Office Everyone should have a place to call home, yet it is becoming increasingly challenging for many Canadians to find a safe and affordable place to live. That’s why a key focus of Budget 2022 is making housing more affordable in communities across the country. The Prime ...

Source: Disability without Poverty - Statement on Federal Budget Statement on Federal Budget For Immediate Release April 7, 2022 Disability Without Poverty Reacts to Federal Budget (Toronto) – Disability Without Poverty is disappointed-but not surprised-there was no reference to the Canada Disabili...

What is the logic in not raising Social Assistance rates with inflation?


Is it to save money in the budget?

Is it to promote fiscal responsibility by encouraging going to employment?

Is it a mistake by our leaders not paying attention to the out of touch rates?

Let's discuss...

A Tweet thread I found today, that goes to show that all information about UBI can be misconstrued and turned viral. Thread by DCPetterson @dcpetterson Every now and then, I see people pushing the idea of a Universal Basic Income, or UBI. Let's put that idea in its grave, shall we? The usual form o...

Published/Updated: May 20, 2021 Source: Canada's First Poverty Reduction Strategy Canada is a prosperous country, yet in 2015 roughly 1 in 8 Canadians lived in poverty. The vision of Opportunity for All – Canada's First Poverty Reduction Strategy is a Canada without poverty, because we all suffer w...