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Three-year proposal is set to launch this spring and will give participants a guaranteed salary. Toronto’s Pauline Bryant, who has been active in the fight to get Ontario to raise welfare rates, says a three-year pilot project to study guaranteed income does nothing for people who need help now. A proposed provincial pilot project to replace Ontario’s poverty-level welfare payments and top-up low-wage workers with a no-strings-attached basic income received a thumbs-up during recent online and public consultations.

Ontarians are also keen to know whether this type of support would impact health, housing, food and work habits, according to a […]

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Roderick Benns. It is now a global phenomenon that Canada is caught up in. According to the International Labour Organization, about 75 percent of the world’s workforce is precarious in some way –part-time, temporary jobs are the vast majority. That means, of course, that only 25 percent of the world’s population is doing stable, full-time work.

For a made-in-Canada example, the Toronto Star has reported research findings from McMaster University and the United Way that show the Greater Toronto Area has more than 52 per cent of workers in temporary, contract, or part-time positions.

There are all kinds of reasons for […]

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image from gawker Are you a robot?
Probably not, but take a test: look around your place of work. How many of your co-workers are actual people – as opposed to virtual people you only ever meet via email, co-working platforms and an occasional conference call?

The machines are taking over the world. Fine, I made that sound scarier than it probably is; after all robotization is not a new or exceptional situation – jobs have always been lost to technology, what is new is that jobs long deemed secure are now eyed by robots . Not any old jobs, […]

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‘People are actually confident I know what I’m doing,’ says NDP leadership hopeful Guy Caron. The last economist to be elected prime minister was Stephen Harper, but New Democrat leadership hopeful Guy Caron says that shouldn’t put people off his campaign bid.

He sees his profession as an advantage.

Caron is in favour of free trade, as long human rights are part of agreements and Canadians get a good deal. He also chides the Liberal government for poor economic growth.A New Democrat lecturing Ottawa opponents on the economy may seem like a tough sell, but Caron said party affiliation has nothing […]

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What if everyone on the planet received a guaranteed income whether or not they worked?

That’s the idea behind the universal basic income (UBI) — and it is gaining ground globally. Government officials, some technology executives, philanthropists and academics from every continent are championing the idea as a way to combat rising wealth inequality and provide an income floor as new technologies are seen decimating jobs in the future. However, the program’s effectiveness and affordability are far from settled discussions. Political hurdles must also be overcome for it to become reality.

This year, UBI was a hot topic at the World […]

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Quebec MP Guy Caron has fleshed out his pitch for a basic income to reduce income inequality in Canada. REUTERS/Mark Blinch OTTAWA (CP) — As NDP leadership hopefuls prepared for their first debate on Sunday, Quebec MP Guy Caron was fleshing out his pitch for a basic income to reduce income inequality in Canada.

Caron, an economist, is proposing a taxable supplement that would help those Canadians whose income levels fall below a standard minimum threshold, determined in part by the size of their family and the city they live in.

He says the proposal would be designed to complement existing […]

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In recent years, as the possibility that intelligent machines might one day replace virtually all of our jobs has sunk in, the promise of universal basic income (UBI) has gained more mainstream attention, especially in progressive circles. Advocates say that governments should offer universal minimum payments, to protect displaced workers from destabilization, poverty and poor health.

The idea has its detractors, however. Some believe UBI would make otherwise employable people lazy. The concept raises debates about whether handing out cash reduces inequality or encourages dependence—the same debates that have surrounded programs that provide assistance for the poor that former US […]

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The concept of the Universal Basic Income, or UBI if I can call it that, has crept onto the political agenda in Ireland and I’d imagine there’s been some discussion about its merits and demerits in the UK as well. A few years ago I’d have described the idea (free money in perpetuity) as impossibly utopian but today it doesn’t seem so far-fetched. The basic principle is theoretically sound – ensure that people have enough money to cover their basic needs thus allowing them to pursue aims closer to their heart and generate revenue that way – but my […]

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