Transfer Payments & Equalization
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From ![]() NEW! A Brief History of Basic Income in Canada |
In this chapter, various basic income schemes in Canada are detailed, from William Aberhart’s Social Credit Party to the famous "Mincome" project in Dauphin, Manitoba. The chapter … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Good Idea Goes Viral |
This chapter highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on low-wage "essential" workers, racialized populations, and women; the pandemic revealed that many Canadians suffer from … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Provocation to Freedom |
In the concluding chapter, the authors reconsider what counts as work, with an emphasis on the importance of care work. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A User’s Guide toThe Case for Basic Income |
A glossary of important individuals and concepts | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Basic Income Comes to Ontario – But Briefly |
This chapter covers the short-lived basic income project in Ontario, from it’s inception to its cancellation by the newly-elected Ford government. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Challenges for western independenceFrom: Moment of Truth |
In this chapter, Cooper examines the deepening tensions that have grown between western Canada and what Cooper terms Laurentian Canada. | Barry Cooper | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Forward and On Basic Income by George Elliot Clark |
In the forward, Dr. Martin links basic income to human health, and notes this link is more obvious than ever because of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Dr. Danielle Martin; George Elliot Clarke | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Hamilton IThe Freedom to Live with Some Dignity |
This chapters explores Ontario’s basic income project in Hamilton, focusing on how basic income can improve public health. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Hamilton IIThinking Further Down the Road |
In this chapter, the authors focus on Jodi Dean, a single mother in Hamilton who was a basic income recipient. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Hamilton IIINew Choices |
This chapter profiles another resident of Hamilton who participated in the basic income pilot. Unlike other participants, James Collura was not disabled, not on social assistance, and did not … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Introduction |
In the book’s introduction, the authors suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the failure of free-market fundamentalism. They believe that livable basic income would enhance freedom … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! LindsayThe Saturation Site |
In this chapter, Swift and Power outline the Basic Income pilot project that took place in Lindsay, Ontario, and the various groups of ativists who made the project possible. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() Promise vs RealityFrom: Lloyd Axelworthy |
In this chapter, Axworthy traces the arc from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to Canada’s domestic political upheaval of the early 1990s. He examines the 1993 election, the Liberal … | Lloyd Axelworthy | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |
![]() NEW! The Case for Basic IncomeFreedom, Security, Justice |
Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 264 | 2021 | View |
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From ![]() Why do small regions secede from a federation (sometimes)?From: Moment of Truth |
In this chapter, Mintz examines why small, wealthy regions sometimes seek separation from larger federations, drawing on cases from Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Singapore, Norway, … | Jack M. Mintz | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |






