Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay will be the three trial sites for Ontario’s experiment with a universal basic income, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Monday morning, competing with New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath’s promise of a new provincial drug-insurance program if her party wins the next election.
It was a big day for new social programs among legislators looking forward to life with a balanced budget.
Both the Liberals’ work on a replacement for Ontario’s mess of welfare programs and the New Democrats’ work on pharmacare are responses to problems from the worsening reliability of employment. Or, rather, problems we’ve had […]
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