Kielburger: Universal basic income may be what Canada needs during, and after, virus crisis

Kielburger: Universal basic income may be what Canada needs during, and after, virus crisis

Sandra Mould, of London, has had to close her daycare after the children were taken home by parents no longer at work due to the COVID-19 virus. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press) Nearly half of working Canadians are now unemployed or underemployed due to COVID-19. For the self-employed in Canada’s gig economy, government relief programs with rigid barriers are forcing some tough choices.

A childcare provider in Arnprior agonized over reopening her shuttered home business to take in children of front-line emergency workers at the risk of exposing her family to the virus. In just three days, a Toronto makeup […]

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