Huddle Today Was Shut Down in 2023 ... Article on UBI June 21, 2022 During the Coviet Era

 

reproduced without permission here..

Article here:  A Basic Income Is The Answer To Poverty - Huddle.Today

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Wil Robertson is a basic income advocate, researcher, and steering committee member for Coalition Canada Basic Income: Revenu de Base. Tracy Smith-Carrier is Canada Research Chair for Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals and an associate professor at Royal Roads University

Basic income is too complex to implement. At least that’s the thinking in the latest release by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. Yet data from Statistics Canada demonstrated that changes to the Canada Child Benefit—a basic income program for families—were largely responsible for a nearly four percent decline in poverty from 2019 to 2020.

APEC’s report claims that “the evidence on national, long-term basic income programs is limited,” but we do have significant evidence that negative income tax programs (a form of basic income) are effective. The Canada Child Benefit and Guaranteed Income Supplement in Canada demonstrate the efficiency and efficacy of providing income security for children and older adults in Canada. There are also reams of global research on the effectiveness of cash transfer programs.

The “work disincentive” argument (that people will stop working if they receive a basic income) also reared its head in APEC’s report, despite evidence that shows people do not suddenly leave their jobs when they receive income support. Robert Gilbert and colleagues in 2018 examined 16 basic income programs around the world and found they had “no substantial impact” on labour market participation.

APEC also points to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to bolster its work disincentive argument. Yet a recent report to Senator Nancy Hartling of New Brunswick debunked the false narrative that the CERB caused mass labour shortages.

Likely the biggest argument levelled against a basic income is that it would be too expensive. The APEC report lays out concerns that implementing a basic income would lead to widespread tax hikes and reductions in government expenditures, threatening its long-term viability.

No consideration is given, however, to the savings that such a program would invariably accrue over time. Sustaining a system of poverty is hugely expensive. Addressing only the symptoms of poverty, as our systems are currently oriented to do, is costly not only in dollar figures but in human lives.

A basic income, if offered at an adequate level to those who need it, could essentially eradicate poverty, with tremendous immediate and upstream cost savings.

The introduction of new taxes could indeed be helpful but only if they target those with excessive wealth. In 2021, the richest one percent collectively owned roughly 30 percent of the wealth in this country, according to researchers James Davies and Livio Di Matteo.

Perhaps now is time to consider options to make our tax system more progressive. Alex Hemingway, in a policy note composed last year, suggested that imposing a modest tax (one percent on net wealth of more than $10 million, two percent on wealth over $50 million, and three percent on wealth over $100 million) would raise $363 billion in Canada over 10 years. Taxing wealth is an area that others are also considering. U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed a “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax” of a full 20 percent for those making more than $100 million. A basic income is not out of the realm of possibility.

There is nothing inherently complex about implementing a basic income program in Canada; we have done it in the past and will invariably need to do so again in the future. Hopefully, for Canadians in the Atlantic Provinces and across the country, this future isn’t too far off.

That future could be closer than most realize. In Prince Edward Island, significant progress has been made towards a demonstration project to trial a basic income, an endeavour supported unanimously by the province’s legislature, including its Progressive Conservative premier, Dennis King. In April, the premier and other party leaders in PEI called on the federal government to help launch the project, but the Prime Minister has yet to agree to move forward.

As the APEC report highlighted, bills C-223 and S-233, introduced by NDP MP Leah Gazan in the House and independent senator Kim Pate in the Senate, call for the establishment of a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income – in essence to study and determine what a basic income would look like if we were to implement it across the country. If it is, no doubt we will see that basic income is the answer to poverty we’ve been waiting for.

Huddle publishes commentaries from groups and individuals on important business issues facing the Maritimes. These commentaries do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Huddle. To submit a commentary for consideration, contact editor Mark Leger: leger.mark@huddle.today."

The podcasts archives are very helpful ... more here.. for the record .. such as this one:

Podcast: Sean Fraser On Welcoming 500,000 Immigrants A Year By 2025 - Huddle.Today

and 2023 talk with coviet in Fredericton's Pat Whalen CEO co-founder of Luminultra..

Podcast: Pat Whalen on Luminultra's Global Reach - Huddle.Today

Updated: UNB's European Women Ousting Best-Selling Author Ricardo Duchesne 2019

Ricardo Duchesne's new revised website:

New EuroCanadian Webzine Is Up! – Council of European Canadians (eurocanadians.ca)

The Duchesne Book Collection..

Jula Hughes - 2018 University Research Scholar

Dr. Hughes received her LL.B. from the University of Ottawa in 1999 and her PhD and MA degrees in German and Comparative Literature from the University of Erlangen, Germany. She joined UNB in 2006 after clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada and practicing law in Ottawa. She was promoted to Professor in 2017. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Law Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.

Dr. Hughes’ research has centred on the development of community-driven and empirical research methodologies in law including co-authoring a much-cited study of provincial court judges’ recusal practices. She has collaborated with numerous community organizations engaged in social justice work and justice system reform, has advised federal and provincial ministers of justice, as well as the New Brunswick Executive Council, and appeared before Ontario and federal courts as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. Her work with the Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (Atlantic), Native Councils and Friendship Centres across Eastern Canada has addressed pressing issues related to modern treaty processes, the constitutional duty to consult with off-reserve populations, and improving justice responses to violence against Indigenous women.

Her research has gained her a national and international reputation in the areas of Indigenous governance, reproductive rights, judicial ethics and criminal law reform. She has published extensively in legal and socio-legal journals and presented as keynote and invited speaker in the United States, Austria, Germany and across Canada.

A former chief negotiator and president of the Association of University of New Brunswick Teachers, frequent external reviewer and grant adjudicator for SSHRC and other funding agencies, regular presenter at judicial education seminars and continuing legal education events, she has contributed significantly to UNB and the broader academic and professional communities. In 2010, she received the CAUT Dedicated Service Award.

Dr. Hughes is currently the principal investigator facilitating the work of a team of researchers from six universities. She collaborates with Aboriginal organizations across Eastern Canada to develop a coordinated network of assistance to families and friends of missing Indigenous individuals. Resources developed in this project support cultural competency training for lawyers, police officers and journalists and improve professional practice and services offered to Indigenous women and their loved ones. This research is supported by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant and funding by Status of Women Canada.
https://www.unb.ca/faculty-staff/directory/_resources/pdf/law/jula-hughes-cv.pdf

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https://blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/2018/11/unb-welcomes-a-new-vice-president-of-the-saint-john-campus.php

About Petra Hauf 

Dr. Petra Hauf is the vice-president of the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus.

As an internationally renowned researcher, Dr. Hauf will build upon UNB’s momentum as a global leader in research and continue to advance UNB as a research-focused institution.

Dr. Hauf joined UNB from St. Francis Xavier University, where she was the dean of science and the acting director of the Rankin School of Nursing. As a testament to her dedication and accomplishments in research, she was a full professor and department chair in psychology when she became the dean of science. Under her leadership, the faculty of science introduced several, very successful interdisciplinary programs.

Throughout her tenure at St. FX, she was appointed the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Development, and she continues her NSERC-funded research on the role of motor skills for perceptual, social, and cognitive development during the first years of life.

Dr. Hauf wants to develop strong partnerships and deepen the connection among faculty, staff and students to build a stronger sense of community both on and off campus. She feels that together, faculty, staff and students can create an inspiring and thriving environment that enhances overall campus life at UNB.

“I am incredibly excited to join the UNB community – to work with the faculty, staff and students across the Saint John campus in finding opportunities to engage in new approaches that have a significant impact on their academic experiences.”

Petra's Profile from St. FX reads:

DR. PETRA HAUF - MY HOMEPAGE  

Dr. Petra Hauf is a professor of psychology at StFX and a Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Development. She is a researcher in infant cognitive development focusing on the link between perception and production in cognitive development. She received her doctoral degree from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, and previously worked as a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Munich, Germany. Prior to coming to Canada, she was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Frankfurt .

Dr. Hauf currently collaborates with numerous research scientists who work at high profile universities and research institutes in North America and Europe. These collaborations include work with Claes von Hofsten at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, Martin Giese at the University of Tuebingen and Birgit Elsner at Potsdam University in Germany, as well as Renee Baillargeon at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and Nick Stergiou at UNO, Omaha, USA. In Canada, she works together with Chris Moore and Helene Deacon at Dalhousie University and Diane Poulin-Dubois at Concordia.

https://www2.mystfx.ca/psychology/phauf-home

The 'decolonization' movement is an "anti-white european" agenda....
Why is this key at this point in time? ' UNDRIP ' 
See: https://aptnnews.ca/2019/06/06/conservatives-on-cusp-of-killing-indigenous-rights-legislation-c-262/ 

Profile at UNB's website already erased along with his Rate a Professor.

Ricardo Duchesne

Professor

Social Science

Hazen Hall 211

Saint John

 rduchesn@unb.ca

 1 506 648 5652

Dr. Duchesne is a professor in the department of social science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. He completed a BA in History at McGill University and Concordia University, Montreal. In 1987 he obtained an MA at Concordia, where he wrote his thesis on the origins of the French Revolution under the supervision of George Rudé, one of the founders of "history from below". In 1994 he was awarded a doctorate in the renowned multidisciplinary program of Social & Political Thought at York University.

His main fields of concentration were modern European history, political economy, and the philosophy of Hegel. He studied with one of the foremost Hegelian scholars in the English language, H.S. Harris, and with Thomas T. Sekine, a Japanese economist considered to be one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value. His Dissertation, "All Contraries Confounded: Historical Materialism and the Transition-to-Capitalism Debate", was awarded the "Doctoral Prize Award for Best Dissertation of the Year," Faculty of Arts, 1995. In 1995, Dr. Duchesne was appointed assistant professor in the department of social science at the University of New Brunswick, where he has remained since.

Duchesne's publications include 3 books, 51 refereed articles, one chapter, 13 encyclopedia entries, and numerous articles in magazines, newspapers, and academic online venues. His book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, a major work of 528 pages, was released in February 2011. In 2017 he published two books, Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age, and Canada in Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians.

Dr. Duchesne believes that the reading of great books, from cover-to-cover, is essential to a university education. The term 'lecture' was originally applied to the exercise of reading - and correcting - the language of handwritten texts. The task of the student was to follow the reading, and make the necessary corrections in the manuscripts. Since the texts were difficult, the teacher would concentrate on explaining and interpreting the manuscripts, line by line, word by word.

'Resources' such as handouts, power-points, and WebCT lectures promote the erroneous notion that knowledge comes ready-to-wear. Knowledge is actually produced through continual reading, note-taking, dialogue, and rewriting. Duchesne upholds the traditional spirit of broad learning for the BA degree with a multidisciplinary core curriculum taught by generalists with a strong grounding in the Western intellectual tradition.

Duchesne's publications can be found at Research Gate.

Regardless of the " feels " of others nothing takes away the fact that "Canada in Decay:  Mass Immigration, Diversity & The Ethnocide of EuroCanadians" continues to remain in the best-seller ranking since its release in 2017.

Congratulations go to Ricardo Duchesne, author & a man of our time.

Founder of Council of European Canadians writes regularly at website and Dr. Duchesne hopes to publish his fourth book as soon as possible [ topic is Western mind vs. Chinese mind]. 

” McCain observes that, “There is a totalitarian tendency in academia that now seeks to silence certain perspectives by labelling them ‘hate speech,’ and it’s never the Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries who are silenced.”

https://theothermccain.com/2019/06/05/sociology-professor-who-quoted-red-pill-sites-forced-out-of-canadian-university/

Maxwell Cohen, Dean of Law (McGill 1968) on "White People" (with Credits) - ModernFathers1867 youtube video

This video has been provoked by an extraordinarily racist article in a Canadian LAW MAGAZINE by an overtly anti-white racist Jew by the name of Maxwell Cohen. He taught law at McGill and became Dean of Law shortly after he published this. Cohen's December 1968 article in the Canadian Bar Review (Volume 46 No. 4) is entitled "Human Rights: Programme or Catchall? A Canadian Rationale". You can search for it here, put the words "Programme or Catchall" in quotes in the "title" search field: http://www.cba.org/cba_barreview/Sear... HERE ARE THE FULL-LENGTH EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLE: p. 555 "The third element that has caused this rise in the volume and variety of international and domestic interest [in "human rights"] relates to the issue just referred to, although it has its own unique quality; it is the confrontation of colour. Nothing at this time perhaps is more dramatic—apart from the constant terror of living with nuclear weapons with their total threat to the species—than the coming back to the stage of contemporary history of the majority of man­kind who for the most part, in the Afro-Asian colonies of the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries lay dormant, waiting for some kind of stimulus which would re-awaken what might be their "national", ethnic or cultural capacities. The white population on this planet is now seen to be a minority, politically and numeri­cally, an important minority, but still only a minority. It must now accommodate and adjust itself to the great non-white majority. That fact involves massive psychological changes for the privileged whites in their relationships with the remainder of mankind. This confrontation is now taking place in subtle ways, and in some cases not so subtle, from the civil rights movement in the United States to the chronic United Nations concern over apartheid— indeed, everywhere in the world. That confrontation may be hav­ing effects on the level of conscience with which men approach many matters, for basic questions about colour which involve equally rude questions about human equality cannot be asked without raising the whole issue of the hierarchy of race relation­ships in the world which have operated up to the present time. A fourth element is what often is called the "revolution of rising expectations". It applies both to affluent, or more de­veloped societies, as well as less developed ones, and it holds that there is a new level of expectations whether in a "socialist" state or a "welfare" state or in a developing country. Consider 556 THE CANADIAN BAR REVIEW [VOL. XLVI Consider the concern in Canada with the problem of poverty in an other­wise affluent society. This is equally true and even more dramatic in the United States, by far the richest assemblage of assets, productive skills and gross national product mankind has ever known. For this anxiety about the "poor" in the United States is one which expresses some notion of equality, the right to share. This "right to share" involves some conception as to the ap­propriate level of expectations, a minimum standard for all. And that standard now is not merely a national conception; it is trans­national and invites the “”extraordinary adjustments which are now taking place, not merely in this confrontation of colour but in that other and parallel accident of human history wherein the white minority happens to be the affluent part of mankind and the non-white the non-affluent majority. Both must accommodate themselves to this new period of rising expectations with all of the rights and duties and burdens which ultimately must lead to new levels of international conscience. This relation of affluence to colour is one of the permanent and dominant facts of planetary life as far ahead as mankind can see, with unpredictable effects on con­science, particularly the conscience of the affluent white societies whose income and technology grow so swiftly while that of non-white mankind advances so slowly. 563 Yet it is important to be aware that the capacity to be "racist", to somehow look with fear or contempt upon others who are different is not something that was known only to Nazi Germany. It is a quality of which all mankind is capable, the darker side of human character." - - - - That's it, end of extract! LET ME CORRECT MAXWELL COHEN: The achievements and general affluence of white people are not an "accident of history". They are the fruit of our capacities and our labors. We owe no apologies to anyone for our achievements. White people have no reason to "accommodate" or "adjust to" others who have not used their own capacities or who have not labored, or are said to be moving "too slowly" toward "affluence". All peoples should have the level of civilization they are able to achieve by themselves, and maintain independently of others. Souvenir copy of the video WITH music and credits: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?co...

Who is Bruce Wark @ Warktimes.com employed by? A retired CBC journalist & former journalism professor at King's University College Halifax

Photo is a screen grab from youtube with Stephen Garvey, National Citizens Alliance

at an Amherst Nova Scotia event for Justin Trudeau & Lenore Zann  Liberal MPs

---- Bruce Wark is pictured on the right...

 Is Bruce Wark an intelligence asset, a government operative, an agent of the Crown, a mole, a gatekeeper, an agent for a political party, a CSIS agent, a retired meddler, or a useful idiot?

His ability to modify commentary left in the comments section of his website is startling.. and he has been found to censor/remove comments.  Very curious behaviour eh? Steering the narrative is his task in Sackville NB's university town but who gives him his instructions?

EMBEDDED Journalist in Sackville New Brunswick Canada... keeping up with the technocrats is a full time gig.

https://warktimes.com/2020/11/10/sackville-gets-help-from-pr-students-in-drafting-new-communications-plan/

Bruce taught journalism at King's University College in Halifax Nova Scotia for 15 years but I have asked him if he is related to Wesley Wark, CSIS intelligence minion?

New Wark Times - Bruce Wark - indie reporter's backstory to beginning his website in the region .. Bruce writes:

" Yes, this blog dates from February 2015 covering news in the town of Parrsboro and vicinity. I had been covering Parrsboro news for CICR-FM, the local community radio station for about two years, but finally quit in frustration and started my own local news service. After moving to Sackville in 2016, I started covering local news here mainly for CHMA-FM, the campus/community radio station, but after a year, I quit to devote more effort to Warktimes. CHMA does not cover much local news even though it’s supposed to under the terms of its broadcast licence. I send radio versions of my Warktimes stories to CFTA, the community station in Amherst. As far as I can tell, very few people listen to CHMA. Each student at Mt. A. is required to contribute $40 per academic year to CHMA and $33 to the Argosy, the student newspaper. Unlike CHMA, the Argosy actually covers campus and town news." -- response received by the comment section

As of more recently:

CHMA 106.9 FM is owned and operated by the members of Attic Broadcasting Co. Ltd., a non-profit organization with its offices and studios on the campus of Mount Allison University. We provide our members with an opportunity to create innovative, educational and alternative community-based programming.

2020-21 Board of Directors CHMA 106.9FM
Bruce Wark, President
Chloe Lundrigan, Vice-President
Peter Brown, Secretary
Robert Leblanc, Treasurer
Kevinique Stubbs
Ivan Okello
Craig Brett
Juan Facundo

Find Bruce's work on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/warktimes/

Bruce Wark has been asked to report on the story of King John III Joseph Gregory Hallett's claim for Kingship but has failed to do so.... for what reason I cannot say.  http://kingjohnthethird.uk website.

Young Greg Hallett - photo from Facebook.

More Shit Michael Bueckert Tweets - Canadian Academia...

Michael Bueckert  🍞 📈‏ @mbueckert Jan 7

It’s all a bit surreal, but today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation, ”Boycotts and Backlash: Canadian Opposition to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movements from South Africa to Israel.” – at Carleton University

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Professor Jordan B. Goldstein on Twitter

Jordan Goldstein

@JB_Goldstein

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Dec 19

Thanks for this awesome bumper sticker ⁦

@WilliamMcNall18

⁩! Maybe we can stop the culture war hysteria for a bit and talk about more important issues like who controls our money.

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