We are excited to share information on the 2024 Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) Forum happening in Ottawa (and virtually) May 23-26. Registration is now open at https://forum2024.ca/registration/, with in-person early-bird rates until April 22. 

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST

Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6

The Rotman School of Management is hosting a public event on November 8 that will explore the social assistance landscape, including ideas around basic income and how behavioural economics can shape the design and implementation of social assistance programs.

Friday, October 27, 2023

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM EDT, lunch included

Hamilton Public Library, 55 York Boulevard, Hamilton, ON L8R 3K1

Join the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction at its October 27 event for a look back at the transformational impact of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project.

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

5:00 - 9:00 PM EDT

Intelliware Office, 200 Adelaide W., Toronto, ON M5H 1W7

Canadian finance and technology consulting company Intelliware is hosting a basic income event at its office in Toronto on October 18.

You’re invited to attend the Ontario Basic Income Network’s Annual General Meeting and Virtual Event, held over Zoom, on:

Saturday, September 16^th, 2023

You can attend using the Zoom invitation link below:

OBIN AGM: 10:00 am to 10:45 am

Food Security and a Basic Income Panel Discussion: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

Please join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83424597641?pwd=dXRUK3ZaSmdYY3BIUVNQcFZ6UkFKQT09

Meeting ID: 834 2459 7641

Passcode: 975572

The meeting agenda and reports will be shared prior to the meeting.

We will start our meeting with general business and conclude with a panel discussion on food security and a basic income, moderated by Member of Parliament Mike Morrice. The panelists include representatives from:

• https://proof.utoronto.ca/
• https://www.dailybread.ca/about/who-we-are/
• https://www.odph.ca/about-us
• New Research on the impact of Ontario Basic Income Pilot on people’s food practices

Please join us on September 16^th!

You’re invited to attend the Ontario Basic Income Network’s Annual General Meeting and to hear from guest speakers during a zoom meeting on:

Saturday, November 5th, 2022

9.30 am to 12.30 pm

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoce6qrz4sE9TphfwLnL5o7Ezv_ouBHcKu 

(agenda and reports will be shared prior to the meeting)

We will start our meeting with general business and conclude with guest speakers including Senator Bernadette Clement.  Updates on the Basic Income movements nationally and provincially will be provided.  

Please join us! 

Monday, October 24

5:30- 6:30 PM MDT

7:30- 8:30 PM EDT

A just recovery from the pandemic means that no one is left behind. What is Guaranteed Livable Basic Income? What does it mean for communities in the North?

Join us for a virtual event on why northern communities need Guaranteed Livable Basic Income. We’re looking forward to hearing from MP Leah Gazan and Craig Berggold. PSAC North REVP Lorraine Rousseau will moderate the discussion.

At the end of the event, participants will have the chance to take part in a digital action in support of our demand for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income.

There will be French and Inuktitut simultaneous interpretation.

On Tuesday, for the opening session of parliament, Basic Income Ottawa held a rally outside parliament to remind MPs of the importance of Basic Income. MPs like Leah Gazan, MP for Winnipeg Centre, came out to show their support. Ottawa City News came by and Joe Foster gave a great interview you can listen to here.

Mark your calendar! ​​On April 13, Green Resilience Project will be launching their final report, which summarizes a series of conversations hosted in communities across Canada on the links between climate change, income security and community resilience. They'll be chatting with a panel of our community partners about what they heard from their communities and where we go from here.

This event will be hosted via Zoom, which you can register for here.

Hope to see you there!

In an interview with BICN's Roderick Benns, Disability Without Poverty’s national director Rabia Khedr said that real headway is being made in securing a basic income for people with disabilities in Canada – and that’s good for the whole basic income movement.

“I support all people having a livable income,” Khedr said. As people with disabilities, we believe everyone has the right to have their basic needs met, regardless of their ability to work. We should be supporting society’s members with their basic needs so they’re not struggling.”

Khedr says basic income though is most clearly on the table for people with disabilities at the moment, given the most recent throne speech committed to the creation of a new Canadian Disability Benefit for people with disabilities.

The national director says her organization came about specifically as a result of the pandemic, which pushed people with disabilities “further into the margins.”

You can read the rest of the interview here.