Ontario’s social experiment: Can basic income buy happiness?

Ontario’s social experiment: Can basic income buy happiness?

Brandy (R) and John Childforever could be ideal candidates for Ontario’s basic-income pilot project. Ontario’s controversial pilot project will see the province spending $150-million to test whether giving people money with no strings attached will improve lives

Brandy and John Childforever have gone from one low-paying job to the next in Thunder Bay. John used to work the night shift at Safeway. Now he is working part-time at WalMart for minimum wage of $11.40 an hour.

Brandy used to work at Cash Money Instant Loans and recently found work as an administrative assistant that pays $16.40 an hour. But that job […]

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