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Mike Strobel (QMI Agency) Our civic leaders are putting Toronto in line for a piece of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s “guaranteed basic income” pilot project pie.

Of course they are. “Basic income” is pure social engineering — and that’s catnip to our councillors. Plus, it’s FREE MONEY!

Hit it, Dire Straits:“Now look at them yo-yos, that’s the way you do it… money for nothin’ and the chicks are free.”OK, maybe that’s harsh. (Plus you can’t say “chicks” anymore.)Unless you’ve been in a coma or too busy at work, you’ve heard of a “basic income.”In a nutshell, it guarantees every citizen a minimum […]

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Platforms like eBay, Uber, Airbnb, and Freelancer are thriving, growing the digital economy and disrupting existing business. The question is how to ensure that the transformations they entail have a positive impact on society. Here, universal basic income may have a role to play.

Few social policy ideas are as hot today as universal basic income. Social scientists, technologists, and politicians from both ends of the political spectrum see it as a potential solution to the unemployment that automation and artificial intelligence are expected to create .

It has also been floated as a potential solution to the rise of the […]

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Former Conservative Senator Hugh Segal is advocating that a guaranteed basic income is key to eradicating poverty. (Karin Larsen/CBC) A pilot project to give people struggling under the poverty line a guaranteed salary with no strings attached is currently underway in Ontario and the man behind the idea is in Vancouver today, making the case that it’s time for a basic income in B.C. too.

Former Conservative Senator Hugh Segal, a strong advocate for the basic income model, penned the provincial discussion paper that prompted the pilot project in Ontario. He explained to On The Coast host Stephen Quinn why […]

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What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out

Click here to view the original image of 896x597px.Ontario is poised to become a testing ground for basic income in 2017 as part of a pilot program. Hugh Segal is the special advisor to the Canadian province and a former senator. He believes a supplemental income of $1,320 a month could provide […]

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The Moneylender and his Wife by Quinten Massijs (detail) This weekend, on the BART ride to San Francisco and on the walk to and from my destination, I listened to this fascinating debate on Intelligence Squared U.S.: The Universal Basic Income Is The Safety Net Of The Future . (It’s also available as a podcast on iTunes.) It was so thought-provoking that my walk turned into a long one, as I stopped every few blocks to sit down and scribble some notes in response to what I heard.

The debaters in favor of the motion are the libertarian political scientist […]

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Last week, I wrote about the health, social and economic benefits of a poverty-reduction plan for B.C. Not unreasonably, a reader challenged me to explain how we could afford that.

“Just what price tag would you set on the actions you propose?” he wrote. “Then we could move on to that tricky part about how well — or if — the plan works.” Fair enough, so here goes.

I wrote about the costs in my column on Jan. 7, 2015. As that is more than two years ago, I will repeat some of it here.In a 2011 report, the Canadian Centre […]

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