Roundup: Your year-end reminder about Basic Income

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Because there is some Basic Income nonsense floating around once again—an NDP private members’ bill, some Senate initiatives, and now of course, some national columnists, so it’s time once again to remind you that economist Lindsay Tedds was a contributor to the BC Basic Income study, and they found pretty conclusively that Basic Income won’t solve the right problems, will create new ones, and that improving existing supports is the best way to go forward. Here’s Tedds reminding us of her findings:

https://twitter.com/LindsayTedds/status/1474202800833785856

https://twitter.com/LindsayTedds/status/1474204448905842688

https://twitter.com/LindsayTedds/status/1474205459095556096

https://twitter.com/LindsayTedds/status/1474212307982958593

Programming Note: I’m taking the rest of the year off from blogging and video/Patreon content. My Loonie Politics columns will continue on their usual schedule, but otherwise I am taking some very needed time off. (The burnout is real). Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you in 2022.

Good reads:

  • In his year-ender with The Canadian Press, Trudeau’s newfound sense of urgency on his agenda has been noted.
  • Sean Fraser hopes that some of the temporary measures used to help meet immigration targets in the pandemic will likely be made permanent.
  • Jean-Yves Duclos has delayed implementing the new PMPRB regulations yet again (for the fourth time. I wrote this a year ago after the second delay).
  • The Canadian air force commander in Kuwait has been relieved of duties after allegations he made inappropriate comments about lower-ranked women.
  • Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson is abandoning the challenge to federal carbon prices…but she doesn’t seem to understand the theory behind the carbon price.
  • Jason Kenney traded in anti-Asian tropes with talk of “bat soup,” and then insists it’s a valid WHO scientific theory.
  • My year-end Xtra column looks at not only what was accomplished for the queer and trans communities over the past year, and why the real hard work starts now.

Odds and ends:

For The Line, I call out the Washington Post’s penchant for publishing misinformed Canadian commentary, which has implications on both sides of the border.

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3 thoughts on “Roundup: Your year-end reminder about Basic Income”

  2. Happy Holidays Dale, and thanks for being the hardest-working fact-checker elf in the PPG. If not the *only* fact-checker elf. All the best in the new year.

  3. Thank you for all your writing and perspectives. Have a Happy Christmas and a relaxing holiday until the New Year.

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