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November 20, 2022
ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING FOR ALL STUDENTS (not just business students)
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING FOR ALL STUDENTS (not just business students) THE FUTURE OF WORK IN CANADA: Research and Written by Ashwin Nair, Researcher Under the direction of Andrew Cardozo, President Introduction The future of work in Canada is
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December 24, 2021
Guaranteed Livable Basic Income: Making it Affordable! (Hunsley)
By Terrance Hunsley, Editor, SocialCanada.org, and Senior Fellow, The Pearson Centre
The coordinated actions of MP Leah Gazan and Senator Kim Pate are brilliant. They each tabled members’ bills in Parliament and the Senate proposing Guaranteed Livable Basic Income for the nation. They propose that a guaranteed income, based on the actu
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November 28, 2021
Will the Left Kill Basic Income (again)?
By Terrance Hunsley
When the NDP gained power in BC in 2017, to fulfill a promise to the Green Party, they commissioned three academics as an expert group to study whether the province should adopt a Basic Income strategy and perhaps run a pilot project. In January of th
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September 6, 2021
Could Politicians Reset the Playing Field for Low Wage Workers?
By Terrance Hunsley
We really need a policy on work and income. Automation, robotization and AI may change things in the future, but so far, our society is organized around people working to support themselves and their family, and to contribute to the costs of a humane
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March 11, 2021
ELECTION 2021: Easing Into Basic Income (Hunsley)
By Terrance Hunsley
I had a nice conversation with Joe Foster, a retired engineer who is part of the Ontario Basic Income Network. We chatted about the results of a recent Angus Reid Survey, which showed that about 60% of Canadians would support a Basic Income, so long a
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September 29, 2019
Could Elections be about Measurable Goals? (Hunsley)
By Terrance Hunsley
(This column also appeared in the Hill Times, October 14, 2019) Another election season with its caricatures of professional wrestling. Personal insults. Skeletons in closets. Spending promises with unstated conditions and no accounting for results. Fi
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August 4, 2019
Future of Work….and Basic Income – Regehr
By Sheila Regehr
The Pearson Centre has invited various leading thinkers to contribute their ideas towards the Progressive Platform to generate good ideas for debate in this general election. The views expressed here are those of the writer. We thank the writers for pu
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