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This is ✨Senator Kim Pate✨ Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever - it's cheaper than poverty - encourages work and entrepreneurs - cuts crime and helps victims of abuse We break it down🧵

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Basic income support may lead to only a short-term reduction in employment. New work from HCEO member Jorge Luis Garcia et al. shows that recipients receive basic income, take time off work, address health needs, and, subsequently, reintegrate into employment. www.nber.org/papers/w33891

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Seeback claims federal spending drove Ontarians to food banks. Nope. Food Banks themselves pointed to insufficient provincial social programmes, including lack of rent controls. #QP

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“How do I stop my students from cheating with AI?” Universal basic income, for starters

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Senator Kim Pate Presents New Basic Income Bill S-206 youtu.be/DNFaXV1zeWc

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Dozens of companies who sponsored Pride marches last year have pulled out this year, including: Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Nissan Citi Corporate Pride was always a hoax. https://popular.info/p/pride-and-prejudice-in-corporate

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BREAKING: Lee Jae-myung who previously ran on UBI elected South Korea's new president

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I can pretty much guarantee this means these people will be pushed onto Bank Street, making this Centretown's problem that nobody wants to deal with.

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Trump's Truth posts mix wild conspiracies with market-moving policies

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Lawsuit over Ontario universal basic income pilot gathers momentum #ubi #onpoli globalnews.ca/video/111955...

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"An extended conversation with professor and author Timothy Snyder about his decision to leave Yale University to teach in Canada, telling CBC’s Eli Glasner why understanding history is the most important weapon in the fight against rising fascism." youtu.be/7PcxC1p-Z-g?...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I believe that unconditional, universal Basic Income, health care and lifelong education are the core foundations of advanced civilization. You want a thriving society? Eliminate financial suffering, ensure people have the medical care they need, and let them learn beyond the basics.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Your regular reminder that the USA is no longer a democracy. Stop talking about a 'slide towards authoritarianism'. It's here. It's been here for months now.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Bill 33 is probably the most direct attack on university autonomy in Canadian history. The right to select who can attend a university has ALWAYS been in the hands of institutions. Now the government of Ontario wants to change that. A Candian first. And not a very pretty one.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Breaking News: Loretta Swit, who played Maj. Margaret Houlihan on the hit TV series “MAS*H,” has died at 87.

submitted 18 days ago • 193 comments

Deregulation. Privatization. Tax cuts. Free trade. Stagnant pay for most. A soaring stock market for the top. That’s the legacy of neoliberalism. Don’t buy revisionist attempts to rehabilitate it. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-tragic-history-of-neoliberalism

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

ICYMI Let's stop treating Canada Post as a business and start treating it as the essential public service it was always meant to be. By @simonenoch.bsky.social @policyalternative.bsky.social www.niagarafallsreview.ca/opinion/cont...

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"While this government's been in power, they have cut spending to the point where $6.35 billion have come out of the education system over the past seven years," she said, referring to recent research from @policyalternatives.ca" #onpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

For the third time in recent weeks, here's @rbreich.bsky.social again pushing for higher taxes on the very rich for universal basic income and healthcare. This is the populism we need. Decades of productivity growth has not been widely shared and finally must be. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Billionaires like Galen Weston underpay workers so badly they need food banks—that should be criminal. And don’t tell me we can’t afford UBI. Loblaws’ record profits say otherwise. Wanna fund it? Two words: windfall tax. Do it. Now.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, universal basic income because AI was trained on all our work and paid for with public research funding. And yes, UBI because people (especially artists) are already seeing reduced income due to AI. But also UBI, because we are all and always will be interdependent. This is all a team effort.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Spending money on a tax cut when we desperately need investments to shift the economy away from the US, to increase research spending, save health care and universities, and rebuild the military, is immensely irresponsible.

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“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us."

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It's been settled for a while now. Canada can fund a minimum basic income at 3% of all spending, with no new taxes on working Canadians. PBO estimates it can slash poverty rates in half with virtually 0 impact on hours worked. Read our plan: www.ubiworks.ca/howtopay

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www.cbc.ca/9.6772981

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This will be of no surprise to any artist here on Bluesky but a new qualitative report has been published about the Basic Income for Artists pilot in Ireland and it turns out that the impact has been far-ranging and has affected all aspects of artists' lives booksirelandmagazine.com/basic-income...

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Trump in 1944: I don't know what the hell happened to Hitler. I'm surprised.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP are choosing to do this.

submitted 23 days ago • 77 comments

"But with universal basic income, people doing the work I don't want to do would gain the power to refuse to work unless they got paid more."

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel... I've just heard the sad news that Sebastiao Salgado died a few days ago... One of the most astonishing photographers ever...🖤

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Remembering Sebastião Salgado https://geographical.co.uk/culture/rememebering-sebastiao-salgado

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@dwnews: Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado has died at the age of 81. His black-and-white photographs capture nature's beauty and the misery of mankind. A photographic tribute: https://t.co/CEC6H8mrtN

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Love the discussion of postmodernism. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

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Character actor George Wendt was known to a generation as Norm, the beleaguered, lovable everyman on the sit-com "Cheers." He died this week at the age of 76.

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The CBC “Gem” logo wasn’t just design—it was a symbol of connection, creativity, and Canadian identity. Public broadcasting still carries that legacy. Let’s protect it. #SaveTheCBC #CBCForever #AnatomyOfLogos #PublicBroadcasting #CdnPoli

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

If PM Carney wants to earn his place in history, all he needs to do is bring in Guaranteed Livable Income. It would be revolutionary. united-church.ca/social-actio...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Journalism costing money is much more of an argument for Universal Basic Income than it is for paywalls or for ads taking up 95% of the pixels on a page.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

submitted 26 days ago • 265 comments

Canadian Harvard students shocked at being drawn into Trump’s battle: ‘I moved my entire life here’

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"X is racist. The only thing up for debate is whether this is a feature or a bug for those in charge," writes Charlie Warzel.

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In trying to compete with Amazon, Canada Post is in a "race to the bottom." As the Crown corporation gets squeezed out of the parcel business, its union is fighting hard to hold the line on working conditions.

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The union representing 3,600 Workplace Safety and Insurance Board workers says the provincial Crown agency has signed contracts with U.S.-based companies in recent months at the cost of jobs and higher wages.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

A new analysis finds that projected growth from the GOP budget's tax cuts would only cover 2.7% of their $3.8T cost. That's nowhere close to the cuts "paying for themselves." Notice how nobody ever asks, "but how will we pay for it" when it comes to trickle-down economics?

submitted 25 days ago • 223 comments

More money to lure US talent? Our universities need more money just to stop layoffs and the cancellations of entire programs! The provinces, especially Ontario, have created a massive budget crisis.

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