It’s 2022, Two Years since the Pandemic started to affect Canadians from sea to sea to sea. This has been a rough and troubling time, and for the first time in what seems like years, there is some good progress being made in the drive towards a national Guaranteed Livable Basic Income. Today, Senator Kim […]
The results are startling… We’re going to compare Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program based on their statistics keeping it at maximum Shelter and Basic Needs allowances versus a Basic Income at 75% of the poverty level. For this comparison we are going to use any scenario of Basic Income by the PBO as […]
Is a Means-Tested but Expansive Basic Income the middle ground we’ve been looking for?
Using $18,329 which is 75% of the Poverty Rate for 2020, we compare the basic full support of provincial assistance (welfare) for single individuals over a 12 month period and compared it to the rate of Basic Income. British Columbia+36.6% Ontario+48.0% PEI+70.7% Alberta+56.7% Quebec+41.4% Newfoundland and Labrador+34.5% Saskatchewan+43.1% New Brunswick+37.0% Manitoba+52.1% Nova Scotia+45.0% Disgusting isn’t […]
CERB is NOTHING like Basic Income and here’s why…
260 days later it has been discovered that the latest Benefit Analysis performed by the Parliamentary Budget Officer where it was claimed that Poverty could be cut in half within one year may have been using the wrong totals after all. During the course of my research I am always looking at numbers and in […]
Have you read the terms of the new temporary lockdown benefit expansion? Do you even qualify? This is just going to be one big national disaster. With the new “Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit (CWLB)” being temporarily expanded to Feb. 12, 2022 they are opening the floodgates of those that are being restricted down in the […]
COVID19 entered our country and changed the economic situation of every single Canadian. Yet, throughout the pandemic Social Supports for the Disabled have yet to materialize. What will this mean for the Disabled? On September 23, 2020 they were promised help. The Liberal Government of Canada had announced a new benefit called the “Canada Disability […]
Basic Income is not a radical idea. However with a proper look at the numbers as per the PBO version, it can be certain to lift the lowest in the poverty spectrum. Each year that Provincial Governments stall on raising rates to inflation have a consistent cumlative effect on them. Imagine keeping the same job, […]
How does Basic Income impact the Housing Market and wouldn’t it drive prices up? In plain English… No. It doesn’t drive up the housing market, that’s already up. Our market is highly saturated with investors buying up our rental space. In the meantime, with unaffordability rampant, we are just stoking the fire, by allowing everyone […]
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