UBI - Because you can't just hunt or farm when billionaires own all the land... ... which means you have _no option_ but to work for those that do own the land if you want to survive. That "no option" is slavery. UBI is freedom from that slavery.
Susan MacKinnon-part owner of Canada
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Yoga. Cross Country Skiing. Bicycling. Mom-3 kids & 4 cats. Learning the trumpet 🎺 and how to canoe for fun
have been telling friends abt the bike lane bullshit in toronto and for the casual observer we have to back all the way up like "right so the guy who smoked crack is dead but he had a brother"
@louisepennyauthor.bsky.social may never see this, having only 2 posts back in 2025, but The Black Wolf officially put her into #speculativefiction #scifi #booksky territory. Deeply disturbing in a way her other mysteries are not. One hopes it never comes true but fear it already has 📚💙
Are hallucinations a stage of dementia? Asking for an enemy...
NEW: A groundbreaking pilot project in which Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon were given an unconditional basic income significantly improved community wellbeing, strengthened food security and supported rainforest protection, according to analysis by the University of Bath released today.
Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds
Researchers say almost 90% of participants in unconditional basic income scheme in Peru adopted environmentally beneficial practices
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Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Lifting everyone out of poverty with UBI + UBS is the morally right thing to do, but it's also economic good sense. It is very costly to let poverty exist. The wealthy are willing to let us all pay those costs and use poverty as a stick.
Just finished The Science In The Fiction podcast-discussing Octavia Butler’s duo-logy Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents among her other works. It’s so much fun to discuss these books with my friends 📚💙 #booksky #scifi #sciencefiction open.spotify.com/show/3BGbQuD...
The Science in The Fiction
Podcast · Marty Kurylowicz and Holly Carson · This is both a science and a science fiction podcast. We dig deep into the biggest ideas in science fiction, using science to elevate the conversation ab...
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Trick or Tariff? 🎃 | The Industrious Beaver – Canadian Halloween Song 🇨🇦 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyv...
Trick or Tariff? 🎃 | The Industrious Beaver – Canadian Halloween Song 🇨🇦
YouTube video by Industrious Beaver
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
KEI Sakana 👻@keisakana.bsky.social · 2w agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Normalize Getting hearing aids when your hearing starts to decrease. Before a) you can no longer hear your children talking about you from 10 feet away b) you miss out on so much you start to tune out when in a crowd c) your arthritis and cognition are so bad you can’t put them in or remove them
Something a little odd. I came across a broken, discarded pot at the side of a lane, and something about it moved me. So I took a photo (as I do), and now thought it might deserve some words. Our world is filled with discarded things (even people). #Verse #poetry #poetryCommunity #DiscardedThings
Navi Pillay last year: "The commission finds it is genocide" Pillay has just won the Nobel peace prize.
Coming to Can*Con in Ottawa? On Saturday night, October 17, starting at 9:00 p.m., I'll be hosting a room party! (Party poster by Rachel A. Rosen; author photo by Warren Shepherd.)
And why isn't the cost of not doing something ever talked about? Poverty is not costless. Chronic mass insecurity is not costless. Prevention is so much cheaper than treatment after the fact.
Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
Can the savings of basic income exceed the costs? > “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/247269-an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-...
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CBC’s iconic Hockey Night in Canada is returning this season in a new historic partnership with the PWHL. The 90th season of the longest-running sports program in the world will return with Walter Cup champions the Montréal Victoire vs. Hamilton on Dec. 5.
CBC's iconic Hockey Night in Canada returns in new partnership with PWHL
CBC's iconic Hockey Night in Canada is returning this season in a historic partnership with the Professional women's Hockey League (PWHL).
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DAIRY FARMERS of Canada🇨🇦 online RECIPE Guide think of it like those Great calendars, but more 😋mmm more.moregoodness.ca/recipe-cream...
1 cup (250 ml) Canadian cottage cheese or ricotta
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Tomorrow is #NDTR2026. Looking for a way to mark the day in Guelph and Wellington County? Here's what's going on. Visit gwwomenincrisis.org/event/sister... for more details. #SistersInSpirit #NoMoreStolenSisters #everychildmatters #OrangeShirtDay #guelphevents #TruthAndReconciliation
Truth and Reconciliation Not just today. Everyday Miigwech 🧡
Ahead of the National Day for #TruthAndReconciliation we're reminded of our collective responsibility to listen, learn, and take meaningful action towards reconciliation. We honour the resilience of Indigenous communities across Canada. 🧡 #EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay #ReconciliationInAction
Once again I feel I should reiterate that a reason I support universal basic income is so that absolute nightmare humans who do terrible things to other people can be shunned from ever having a job or being permitted to mingle with the rest of us, but nobody has to feel guilty about it.
🧡 Heartfelt flag raising to remember the past & ongoing harms of residential schools. And to envision and work towards Truth & Reconciliation year round. 🪶
So CBC Gem is running some ads for Israeli tourism ????? Why???