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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From Lanark Basic Income Network on FB:

Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To survive you have to "contribute" to them. Meanwhile they don't really have to do anything ever again. Tip the balance.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From Basic Income Nova Scotia on FB: Thank you to MLA Suzy Hansen for presenting our hand-signed petition in the NS Legislature yesterday. The petition stated: WHEREAS • Many people are struggling financially in Nova Scotia and throughout Canada...

Image of MLA Susan Hansen

Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Presenting and Reading Petitions

Closed caption reading: Nova Scotia, Coalition Canada, revenu de base and the

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

From Lanark Basic Income Network on FB:

Myth: Only unemployed people benefit from basic income.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

From lanarkbasicincome on Instagram: It IS time for a basic income!

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

From Lanark Basic Income on FB/Insta. Basic income has been repeatedly seen to both improve the health of families and, because of this, improve educational outcomes.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Help implement the PEI Basic Income demonstration project! Use the QR code to go to Coalition Canada Basic Income-revenu de base's paper petition webpage, download its approved paper petition to support the Basic Income PEI Project...

Basic Income
Paper Petition Campaign
Canada needs more than poverty reduction plans and targets
We want a Guarantee Basic Income that demonstrates results
We support a Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) Demonstration Project in Prince Edward
Island (PEI) that is designed to dramatically reduce poverty.
This will be evaluated to demonstrate improvements in wellbeing for those who receive
it, AND cost savings in health care, social services, justice and public safety systems -
showing once and for all that lifting people out of poverty is more productive and cost
effective than trapping people in poverty.
Why PEI? PEI has all-party support for a GBI that would reduce poverty from 10% to 2%
and cost 40% less than previous basic income models. It has already developed a
framework that is ready to demonstrate how it can achieve these kinds of results.
Why a Demonstration Project? To study the benefits for people and communities on a
provincial scale, and to identify government cost savings on current poverty-related
services and supports.
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS We need volunteers in every riding in Canada who will collect
30 hand-written signatures on a paper petition and ask their local MP to present it in the
House of Commons.
TAKE ACTION: Scan to learn how to take this simple action.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

FYI: each province and territory has its own suite of income assistance and disability amounts (all under MBM poverty) with different exemption amounts, different clawback rates that function as marginal tax rates over 75%. Getting on is neither quick nor easy, resulting in people trapped in place.

From putting workers first on facebook:

I promise you public assistance is not a
"handout." As a physical therapist, I've
watched families spend more energy
proving they're poor enough for help than
they have left for healing. So respectfully,
this is a massive fork you to the people
pretending the system is "easy."

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

@markcarey93.bsky.social When do we move from the precarity and disincentives of welfare to what actually works, has support from across the spectrum and has shown positive results for decades? Canadians need real change. Basic income is that, from the ground up.

Supporting a basic
income in Canada:
Canadian Association of Social
Workers
Canadian Public Health
Association
Canadian Mental Health
Association
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Over 100 Canadian CEOs
(ceosforbasicincome.ca)
The Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women and Girls
Report (Section 4.5)
Canadian Medical Association
British Columbia Union of
Municipalities
All party support in the Province of
Prince Edward Island

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Canada needs more than poverty reduction. We need a path to the solid income security of a basic income, something 50+ years overdue. There is a IRL way to incredible impact on Parliament Hill: Paper Petitions.

Hiker in silhouette helps another up.
Caption:
We Rise By Lifting Others

Join the paper petition 2026 drive to
start the PEI Basic Income Demonstration Project

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

From Lanark Basic Income Network on FB:

I fundamentally disagree with those who think
that people must be "forced" to work, or that
government should "guarantee" a job. In my
view breaking the link between paid work
and survival would be a good thing. If people
are intrinsically of value, then they have the
right to survive with or without working.
I therefore think we should guarantee basic
income, rather than jobs. Or, to put it another
way (and root this argument firmly in human
rights), we should guarantee people's
unconditional right to "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness": after all, people who are
forced to do physically debilitating and mentally
unstimulating jobs in order to survive are
effectively denied the second and third of these rights.
If people don't have to work to survive, most
will find or create work that fulfills themselves
and benefits others, and we will all be richer for it.
,,
FRANCES COPPOLA

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." Nelson Mandela Clip by basicincomeyyc on Instagram.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Series from the Lanark Basic Income Network on FB and Insta.

Who would benefit from Basic Income?

(All posts in this thread have a light brown background with darker orange/brown lettering)
This opening includes a round picture of some people in a park, basic income underlined, a black curved arrow pointing to more and at the bottom
@lanarkbasicincome

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Long-time Canadian basic income advocate and artist Craig Berggold on the current NDP drive to raise the floor with a basic income. (1/4)🧵

New Federal NDP leader Avi Lewis supports a
Guaranteed Livable Basic Income.
...
In late January 2026, I had several phone
conversations with Avi Lewis about basic income
policy. We talked about the movements' national
consensus statement, and the success in past
federal elections of MP candidates taking the
Basic Income Now pledge. I shared background
notes with his Policy Coordinator that culminated
in Lewis's statement below.
If you contacted the Lewis campaign leading up
to the leadership convention and asked about
basic income, here is their reply:

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

From Basic Income Calgary on Instagram: (1/4)

basicincomeyyc
HUNGER IN ALBERTA:
THE REAL CAUSE
CURRENT STATUS
Food insecurity is rising
• Food insecurity has increased for 3 years
in a row
In 2023, over 30% of Albertans
experienced food insecurity
• Millions struggle to afford basic food
needs

More than 1 in 3 Albertans
struggled to afford food in 2023.
But hunger isn't about personal
choices.
It's about income and inequality.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Orson Welles on how much poverty makes creativity happen:

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Did you know one of Canada’s most celebrated authors supported basic income in 1968?

Director of the School of Social Work,
John Morgan, wrote that "the Welfare
State is as out of date as the Model
T."
It still is. The various welfare services
in Canada are ambulance services to
rush in at the eleventh hour and apply
splints to people already badly
crippled. What is needed is a plan for
preventative social medicine -- of
which the guaranteed annual income
might easily be the foundation...the
advantages of such a systematic and
planned attack on poverty ought to
be obvious. Can we afford it? Surely
the answer must be that we can no
longer afford to ignore it.
Pierre Berton
from The Smug Minority (1968)

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

South African bishop and supporter of basic income, Desmond Tutu It's time for upstream thinking. Its time for basic income.

We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This petition drive for an all-party supported PEI demonstration project ends January 2nd. This is the best chance Canada has right now to get the ball rolling on a basic income. Please sign and share! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

From Basic Income Nova Scotia on Facebook:

Here's an easy way to sign and share Coalition Canada's e-petition calling on the federal government to work with PEI to fund and implement an island-wide basic income guarantee.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Including members of BIBC 😊 but, of course, the important part is the work being done and how you can also help right now! here 👇 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Coalition Canada for Basic Income and the PEI Working Group for a Livable Income led a delegation to Ottawa this week to advance a 5-7 year Basic Income Guarantee demonstration project for PEI. This initiative could be a national first - shaping a fairer, more effective income support system for all Canadians.

How can you help? Sign Petition e‑6772 to show you support bringing this vision to life—and share it widely so we can show our elected representatives how many of us believe in economic justice for all.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6772

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

If only there was something that made it so that people applying to work there were only those who actually wanted to work there? 🤔

Two signs:

Employee Attitudes
We don't expect our staff members to come to work with a "I'm just here for the money" mindset

There is literally no other reason why we'd be here.

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

More and more the need for a foundation beneath us becomes clear.

Lighthouse with the caption: Supporting a basic income in Canada:
Canadian Association of Social Workers
Canadian Public Health Association
Canadian Mental Health Association
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Over 100 Canadian CEOs (ceosforbasicincome.ca)
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Report (Section 4.5)
Canadian Medical Association
British Columbia Union of Municipalities
All party support in the Province of Prince Edward Island

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