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The Government of Canada is doing pre-budget consultations until February 19th. This is a great opportunity to speak up for a basic income guarantee, as well as other important issues like housing, pharmacare, childcare, and more! While the questionnaire does name many of these issues, unfortunately you won’t see a basic income guarantee specifically mentioned in the survey, so you’ll have to add it in yourself.
As we enter the holidays, we would like to acknowledge that 2020 has been a very challenging year for our participants. We know from Statistics Canada that food insecurity has unfortunately grown by nearly 40% this year across the country. In this season of giving, we ask you to spend some time learning about food insecurity, and signing your name in support of a basic income guarantee.
In December, many of us turn our focus to feeding people we don’t know, especially through food donations or volunteering at emergency food programs. We feed community members with a hopeful sense of Until. We hope that the food they receive will last until their next cheque comes in. And we hope that they will only need this help until they get a decent job (Statistics Canada tells us that most food-insecure people already have jobs. However, these jobs just don’t pay enough to keep food on the table).
This Fall, like so many other things, we adjusted our canning classes to move on-line! Of course, we miss our in person classes where we all get together to create a recipe & the joy of hearing the jars pop & a job well done, but we did still have lots of fun in our classes regardless.
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