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OBIP Chronicles — The Ontario Basic Income Pilot baseline survey shows that nearly 38 per cent of the people collecting… Continue reading “Over 80 per cent didn’t get needed health care due to cost, until basic income”

OBIP Chronicles — Finding affordable housing in Ontario hasn’t been easy for decades. Finding it in Kawartha Lakes has been… Continue reading “Basic income was helping with crushing cost of housing: Survey”

At the special council meeting held yesterday, Kawartha Lakes Council approved the largest Capital Budget in the municipality’s history. The… Continue reading “Council approves notable capital and water-wastewater budget”

Seventy-six years ago, an American psychologist named Abraham Maslow emphasized the process of growing and developing as a person in… Continue reading “The economics of homelessness as basic income pilot winds down”

Well-known labour activist James Mulhern and community activist Barbara Doyle are throwing their hat in the ring to win the… Continue reading “Mulhern, Doyle run for federal NDP nomination”

Many years ago, when my father taught school full-time, a highlight of the academic year for his students occurred on… Continue reading “Bards of the Kawarthas: Our poetic past”

After Christmas excesses ‘tis now the season for New Year’s resolutions. If healthier eating and food choices that have a… Continue reading “Luis and Leanna Segura: Fresh food, hip hop and climbing for mangoes”