This age-old strategy for tackling poverty has been getting a lot of attention recently, with stagnating economies and the growing automation of labour worldwide. In Europe, Finland started sending ...

Over half of Canadians feel “financially paralyzed” by the cost-of-living crisis, according to a recent poll. As life becomes more unaffordable for more people, we need governments to create policies ...

Around 40 people took part in a rally at the Finlandia Club in Thunder Bay, Ont., on Monday to protest provincial funding cuts to Legal Aid Ontario. The rally was spearheaded by staff of the ...

A rural Canadian town gave its residents a type of universal basic income for three years. The program improved residents' health and educational outcomes. The study can still teach us lessons about ...

I read with interest Dr. Trevor Hancock’s article, “Reducing the cost of inequality,” in which he argued that poverty in Canada is now so expensive we cannot afford it.1 Public health teaches us that ...

Many parents, economists and and child-care advocates celebrated the signing of Ontario’s early learning and child-care agreement with the federal government at the end of March. The agreement means a ...