Social Issues

Thanks to funding from the Luke Four Foundation, Kawartha Lakes Food Source (KFLS) is able to pilot a Family Cooking… Continue reading “Family cooking project kicked off in Kirkfield”

Earlier this week community members and volunteers gathered at Calvary Pentecostal Church to open Lindsay’s third food bank — the… Continue reading “Third food bank opens in Lindsay to try and meet community need”

The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness has announced that the City of Kawartha Lakes and the County of Haliburton have marked a… Continue reading “Chronic homelessness dramatically reduced in Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton”

A graduate researcher at the University of Cambridge is looking to interview participants in the Ontario Basic Income Pilot about… Continue reading “Researcher looking to speak with Basic Income participants”

The Basic Income Canada Network (BICN) today released a survey report, Signposts to Success, documenting the experiences of recipients in… Continue reading “New report shows Ontario basic income pilot was on track for success”

Walking the ancient Camino de Santiago, a large network of ancient pilgrim routes stretching across Europe, I met a fellow… Continue reading “What the Nordic countries can teach us”

It’s perhaps no surprise that the men and women who were collecting basic income across Lindsay, Thunder Bay, and Hamilton… Continue reading “More than half of people on basic income behind on bills for two or more months”